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prickle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf [syn: spine , thorn , pricker , sticker ] v. cause a prickling sensation [syn: prick ] cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle ] make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a prickling sensation (= a feeling that your skin is stinging ) ▪ He felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB feel ▪ He seemed totally relaxed, and I felt the prickle of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prickle is also known as REST/NRSF-interacting LIM domain protein, which is a putative nuclear translocation receptor. Prickle is part of the non-canonical Wnt signaling pathway that establishes planar cell polarity. A gain or loss of function of Prickle1 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prickle \Pric"kle\, n. [AS. pricele, pricle; akin to LG. prickel, D. prikkel. See Prick , n.] 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. --Bacon. A kind of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English pricel "thing to prick with, goad, point," from the same source as Old English prician (see prick (v.)) with instrumental suffix -el (compare Middle Low German prickel , Dutch prikkel ).
Usage examples of prickle.
With a prickle of disquiet, Auger noticed that one of the parked spacecraft was a Slasher vessel.
Anyone with eyes would eventually learn that Minid males pressed their suits from behind and that, in order to facilitate disengagement should a dinothere come dithering along or a porcupine prickling past, partners often remained upright.
Samantha felt the skin at the back of her neck prickle, like duppy walking on her grave.
The tender shoots are protected from being eaten by herbivorous animals in the same way as are the thistles and the holly, by the angles of the leaves having grown together so as to constitute prickles.
But as the haunting scent of the freesias caught at the back of her throat, she found herself blinking back a sharp prickling sensation behind her eyes.
My skin prickled and my heart began to pound as I set the heli into a long climb towards the ridgeline shimmering in the heat haze.
Prickling with sweat, Kutch tried to clear his mind of all but the Craft.
I lay atop straw, prickling my cheek, beneath rough-spun woolen blankets, and from the incessant lurching motion and the sound of hooves, it was a cart in which I rode, lashed over with a canvas tarpaulin.
He could feel nothing, sense nothing but the chill lour that had prickled his hair all day.
She nibbled his bottom lip, then drew her tongue over his lips, touched the corners of his mouth, licked around the firm contours of his jaw, feeling the prickle of stubble against her tongue.
Rishte had slunk back to the forest as dawn approached, and Wakje had gone back to sleep, but she needed neither to understand the prickling in her shoulders.
Harry nodded, swallowing, as something, a sort of reluctant knowledge, prickled along his scalp.
Even though their dress indicated that they were of the local Tekke tribe, not raiders from a hostile Turkoman band, Ross felt a prickle of disquiet.
Fruit, vegetables, and other goods that had been packaged in jars were now unedible, for they had frozen, expanded, and shattered the containers: shards of glass now prickled the frozen contents.
Even before I saw her face, senses long unused were sending a prickle of shock across my skin.