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[PRICK-WOOD.] *prick-wand, s. A wand set up for a mark to shoot arrows at. *prick-a-sour, *pric-a-sour, s . [PRICK. v.] A fast or hard rider. "He was a pricasour aright." Chaucer: C. T. (Prol. 189.) prick-er, s. [Eng. prick, v.; -er.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who or that which pricks; a prick: a sharp-pointed instrument for pricking: a prickle. 2. A long slender iron used for probing or sound. ing the depth of a bog or quicksand. *3. A light horseman. "Northumbrian prickers , wild and rude." Scott : Marmion, v. 17. *4. One who tested whether women were witches. by pricking them with pins; a witch-finder. *5. One who beats for game. II. Technically : 1. Blasting : [NEEDLE, S., II. 2]. 2. Gunnery: A sharp wire introduced at the vent to puncture the bag which holds the charge, in order that the priming may touch the powder. 3. Naut .: A small instrument having an enlarged head and a curved tapering point. It is similar to the fid and marline spike, but is used for smaller work. 4. Saddlery : A tool used to mark stitch-holes, to render them uniform in distance. 5. Ichthy.: The Basking-shark (q. v.). prick'-ět, s. [PRICK, S.] 1. A buck in his second year. "Twas a pricket that the prince kill'd."-Shak-sp. Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 2. IMG:content-1518.png:[blocks in formation] *4. The prick or mark left by an animal's foot, as, by a hare, deer, .; the act of tracing animals by such marks. "Those which cannot discern the footings or prickings of the hare." -Tops all : Four - footed Beasts , p. 152. *5. The state or condition of becoming acid or sour, as wine. II. Farr .: The act of driving a nail into a horse's foot while shoeing him, so as to cause lamene . Pricking for sheriffs : The annual ceremony of appointing sheriffs for each county for the ensuing year. It is so called from the name of the persons chosen being marked by the stick of a pin. ( Eng .) pricking-note, s. Comm.: A document delivered by a shipper of goods authorizing the receiving of them on board. So called from the practice of pricking holes in the paper corresponding with the number of packages counted into the ship. IMG:content-1519.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A little mark; a dot, a jot. 2. A little prick; a small sharp point. "Let us endure their bad qualities for their good; allow the prickle for the rose."-Chapman: All Fools , iii. 1. 3. A sharp-pointed proce as from the skin of an animal; a spine. 4. A kind of basket, of willow or brier, containing rather more than a gallon measure. 5. A sieve of filberts, containing about half a hundred weight. II. Bot .: A rigid, opaque, conical proce , formed of cellular ti ue, and terminating in an acute point. It may be considered a compound hardened hair developed from the epiphlœum of the bark, differs from in belonging to dermis only, and therefore breaking off smoothly.