Prick

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

(2): ( n.) To nick.

(3): ( v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

(4): ( n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.

(5): ( n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

(6): ( v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

(7): ( v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

(8): ( v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.

(9): ( v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

(10): ( v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

(11): ( v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

(12): ( v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.

(13): ( v.) A mathematical point; - regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

(14): ( v.) The footprint of a hare.

(15): ( v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

(16): ( n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

(17): ( v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.

(18): ( v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.

(19): ( n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.

(20): ( n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; - sometimes with off.

(21): ( n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.

(22): ( n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; - sometimes with on, or off.

(23): ( n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

(24): ( n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; - said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; - hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.

(25): ( n.) To render acid or pungent.

(26): ( n.) To dress; to prink; - usually with up.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

prik  : As a noun (= any slender pointed thing, a thorn, a sting) it translates two words: (1) שׂך , sēkh , a "thorn" or "prickle." Only in   Numbers 33:55 , "those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes," i.e. "shall be a source of painful trouble to you." (2) κέντρον , kéntron "an iron goad" for urging on oxen and other beasts of burden: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" (the King James Version of  Acts 9:5 , where the Revised Version (British and American) omits the whole phrase, following the best manuscripts, including Codices Sinaiticus, A, B, C, E; the King James Version of  Acts 26:14 , where the Revised Version (British and American) has "goad," margin "Greek: 'goads' "), i.e. to offer vain and perilous resistance. See Goad . As a verb (= "to pierce with something sharply pointed," "to sting"), it occurs once in its literal sense: "a pricking brier" ( Ezekiel 28:24 ); and twice in a figurative sense: "I was pricked in my heart" ( Psalm 73:21 ); "They were pricked in their heart" ( Acts 2:37 , κατανύσσω , katanússō , Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) compungo  ; compare English word "compunction").