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Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 122. II. in trans. 11. To aim, as at a point or mark. The devil hath pricked at this mark, to frustrate the cro of Christ. Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. Let Christ be your scope and mark to prick at; let him be your pattern to work by. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 80. 2. To give a sensation as of being pricked or punctured with a sharp point; also, to have such a sensation. Have you no convulsions, pricking aches, sir? Middle ton ( and others ), The Widow, iv. 2. Tennyson , In Memoriam, 1. When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle. 3. To spur on; ride rapidly; post; speed. He prikketh thurgh a fair forest. Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 43. A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine. Spenser , F. Q., I. i. 1. Still at the gallop prick'd the knight; His merry-men follow'd as they might. Scott , L. of the L., v. 18. 8. To cause to point upward; erect: said chiefly of the ears, and primarily of the pointed ears of certain animals, as the horse: generally with 4. To point upward; stand erect. up : hence, to prick up the ears , to listen with eager attention, or evince eager attention. Then I beat my tabor, At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 176. The volunteers prick'd up their ears . Battle of Tranent - Muir ( Child's Ballads, VII. 169).