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Pricking-up
n.
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The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.
Prickle
n.
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
Prickle
n.
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A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
Prickle
n.
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A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
Prickle
v. t.
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To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
Prickleback
n.
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Alt. of Pricklefish
Pricklefish
n.
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The stickleback.
Prickliness
n.
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The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
Prickling
a.
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Prickly.
Pricklouse
n.
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A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Prickly
a.
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Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
Prickmadam
n.
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A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
Prickpunch
n.
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A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
Prickshaft
n.
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An arrow.
Pricksong
v. t.
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Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
Prickwood
n.
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A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
Pricky
a.
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Stiff and sharp; prickly.
Pride
n.
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A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
Pride
n.
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The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
Pride
n.
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A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
Pride
n.
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Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
Pride
n.
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That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
Pride
n.
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Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride
n.
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Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
Pride
n.
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Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
Prided
imp. & p. p.
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of Pride
Priding
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pride
Pride
v. t.
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To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
Pride
v. i.
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To be proud; to glory.
Prideful
a.
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Full of pride; haughty.