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One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Like a prickle.

Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

rring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

Water saturated or strongly inpregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

Pickled or canned beef.

To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.

sh green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings." Shak.