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- English Word Prickle Definition A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
- English Word Prickle Definition A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
- English Word Prickle Definition To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
- English Word Prickleback Definition Alt. of Pricklefish
- English Word Pricklefish Definition The stickleback.
- English Word Prickliness Definition The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
- English Word Prickling Definition Prickly.
- English Word Pricklouse Definition A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
- English Word Prickly Definition Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
- English Word Prickmadam Definition A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
- English Word Prickpunch Definition A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
- English Word Prickshaft Definition An arrow.
- English Word Pricksong Definition Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
- English Word Prickwood Definition A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
- English Word Pricky Definition Stiff and sharp; prickly.
- English Word Pride Definition A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
- English Word Pride Definition The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
- English Word Pride Definition A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- English Word Pride Definition Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
- English Word Pride Definition That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.