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To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson.

The stickleback.

A prickle.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

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.

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

ency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Set with small spines or prickles.

Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

lied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

gue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.