prick, prike, priken, prikien, pryke

t. & i. [Icel. prika; Ger. prikken.] [PRICK, 8.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To pierce with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to puncture. Sometimes the effect of the pricking, rather than the thing pricked, is made the object of the verb; as, to prick a hole in paper. 2. Specif .. To spur; to drive spurs into. "As o'er the plain the Pilgrim prick'd his steed." Byron: Childe Harold, i. 43. IMG:content-1516.png:[blocks in formation] (1) To prick out : To plant out for the first time. [A. I. 11.] (2) To prick up one's self: To show off, to make a show.