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Definition of Pricking
1. Noun. The act of puncturing with a small point. "He gave the balloon a small prick"
Definition of Pricking
1. n. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
Definition of Pricking
1. Verb. (present participle of prick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pricking
1. a prickly feeling [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pricking
Literary usage of Pricking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1866)
"pricking in the region of the liver; at 9, heat in the cheeks and burning ...
At 10 am ten drops at once: shortly after, flaccidity; pricking in the region ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"L'envoutement consists in pricking and slowly melting a small wax figure representing
the individual intended for a victim of magic art. ..."
3. Treatise on Clock and Watch Making: Theoretical and Practical by Thomas Reid (1832)
"On ('iurl, Chimes and Bell Music, mode of pricking Barrels, ... Various ways may
be adopted for pricking tunes on the music barrels of clocks. ..."
4. The Kitchen Garden ; Or, Object Lessons in Household Work: Including Songs by Emily Huntington, Frédéric Vors (1878)
"pricking SONG. —-ft-J_b—Pd 1—d—I—IhJ H 1 ^ imi—-l p-*-08-^-*—* Prick- ing,
pricking, pricking light - ly, S- --* All the lines and pattern o'er; Stitching, ..."
5. American Agriculturist (1847)
"This is sometimes done without either docking or pricking (nicking, ... If the
pulley If to have any determinate effect, it must follow pricking in almost ..."
6. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"Deep seated and severe pain, with a stinging and pricking sensation, followed by
throbbing ... But, if the pain, pricking and throbbing do not soon subside, ..."
7. The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, William Ramsden (1906)
"Of the cure of the COLICK by the ACUPUNC- TURA or NEEDLE-pricking, as it is used
by the Japanese. AD 1692. Hat particular sort of Colick, ..."
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