6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. "I was pricked with some reproof." Tennyson. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37.
7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; — said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; — hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. "The courser . . . pricks up his ears." Dryden.
8. To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] Hudibras.
9. To dress; to prink; — usually with up. [Obs.]
10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick.
PRICK
Prick, v. i.
1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser.
3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.