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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Not the prickle induced by the enemy installations, it was a real coded call picked up by his sonic, and ...
— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... of the cup of an acorn, through the bottom of which ran a hedgehog's prickle. Balanced on the point was the needle, a spear of dried grass, and over all was a spider's web to ...
— The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice • E. V. Lucas

... just come out of the bath which was in the house; for she was scented with essences and reek of aromatic woods, and her face shone like a circle of the moon on the fourteenth night. She began to sport with me, and I with her. Now I had just reached the age of puberty; so my prickle stood at point, as it were a huge key. Then she threw me on my back and, mounting astraddle on my breast, fell a wriggling and a bucking upon me till she had uncovered my yard. When she saw it standing with head erect, she hent it in hand and began rubbing it upon the lips of her little slit[FN92] ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Prickle" :   prickle cell, thorn, glochidium, prick, sticker, prickly, twinge, glochid, pierce, spine, tingle, prickle-weed, aculeus, sting, itch, needle, pricker, spikelet, prickling



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