Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRICK
PRICK, v.i.
- To become acid; as, cider pricks in the rays of the sun.
- To dress one's self for show.
- To come upon the spur; to shoot along. Before each van / Prick forth the airy knights. – Milton.
- To aim at a point, mark or place. – Hawkins.
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