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pricked, ppl. a.|prɪkt, ˈprɪkɪd|
I. [f. prick v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Pierced with pricks or with a prick; punctured; wounded by pricking; spec. of a horse: see prick v. 1 c.
1467in Charter of Selby Abbey (Brit. Mus. Addit. Ch. 45, 861), 1 panem album vocatum Prikkedlof [in ch. of 1324 brochee, 1433 brochet]. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 30/2 The wounde of the pricked synnue. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 503 The money bags shrink like pricked bladders. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases iii. 71 Malarial blood..does not flow freely from the pricked finger.
b. spec. In plastering, pricked up: see prick v. 23.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 619 Over the pricked-up coat of lime and hair. 1832Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) V. 679/2 When the pricked up coat is..dry.., preparations may be made for the floating.
c. Of a game bird or part of a bird: wounded or disabled by shooting. Also transf.
1937Discovery Dec. 385/1 Wounded or pricked birds left about the place are numerous. 1940N. M. Sedgwick Young Shot v. 45 The guns should carefully mark where game falls,..where..a bird with a pricked wing comes down. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 212/1 Thereafter, for days, a salmon was seen constantly to move in the one place, and gradually I became certain that it was one and the same fish that had twice been lost. Never did any of us visit the Island but there it was, rolling up every few minutes as so often a pricked fish will. 1958R. Waddington Grouse ix. 105 Very high grouse mean many pricked birds and the moor in general is the sufferer.
2. Of liquor: Turned or tending to turn sour. (Cf. prick v. 8.) Also fig. [= F. piqué (vin piqué, ‘vin qui tend à se transformer en vinaigre’, Littré).]
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 696 And turn as eager as prick'd Wine. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Prickt, decayed Wine, tending to Sower. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 108 Which will occasion the Whole [ale] to become sometimes only pricked, or just tainted. 1834Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 3 Technically speaking her temper was a little pricked. 1845Disraeli Sybil iii. ii, Making the Vicar..praise a bottle of Burgundy that he knew was pricked. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Pricked, or Prilled, turned sour; said of any liquid turning acid.
3. Formed of, traced or written in pricks or dots; dotted; written; spec. in Pottery, ornamented with designs traced in dots. pricked song: see prick-song.
1463–1606 [see prick-song 1 α]. c1520Bk. Mayd Emlyn 33 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 84 We do nought togyder, But prycked balades synge. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 405/2 The clergie of the realme haue burned vp their false prycked bookes. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. iv. xi. 180 Draw the prickt Line NS. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vi. 192 In the plan..the road..is marked out by a prickt line. 1820M. Edgeworth Let. 20 Dec. (1971) 226, I think the pricked map upon the whole better out and have seen the proof sheets and left it out. 1880in L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery 107 Designs..on pricked paper. 1900E. Jackson Hist. Hand-Made Lace 216 Pricked, the term used in pillow lace-making to denote the special marking out of the pattern upon parchment. 1927‘R. Crompton’ William—in Trouble v. 119 Half a dozen Italian stamps..turned out..to be ‘pricked’ and useless for collections. 1933Burlington Mag. Jan. 43/1 There are pricked designs for figures which can be identified on vestments still existing. 1967Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 13/2 Making lace borders, using a pricked parchment pattern, and placing pins in the holes, which control the completed stitches.
4. Produced or obtained by pricking.
1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 644/1 A pricked drop of blood from a wild animal injected into a healthy tame animal would cause it to fall sick of nagana.
5. Erect; pointed upright; set up, cocked up.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 72 So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. i. 304 A Kind of Dog..with prickt Ears. 1842J. Wilson Chr. North I. 39 A smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears. 1898Bk. of Dogs 62 [The Pomeranian] has sharp features and pricked ears.
6. pricked-out, of seedlings, planted out in a bed after being moved from the trays or boxes in which the seeds were germinated.
1938G. Greene Brighton Rock iv. 154 The small pricked-out plants irritated him like ignorance. 1975Country Life 13 Feb. 388/3 Space the pricked-out seedlings at seven by four.
II. [f. prick n. + -ed2.]
†7. Having a prick or point; pointed, tapering; prickly, sharp; bearing prickets; furnished with a sting. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) ii. 6 Whyte and prikked..as thornes. 1552Huloet, Prycked or stynged, aculeatus. 1584in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 368, iii prickt candle⁓stickes.
†8. Furnished with a prick or pricks; dotted.
1665Pepys Diary 23 Apr., Every barr to end in a pricked crochet and quaver. 1667C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Mus. 24 Here you have a Prickt-Crochet (or Crochet with a Prick after it). 1715Phil. Trans. XXIX. 204 Prickt Letters never signify Moments, unless when they are multiplied by the Moment o either exprest or understood to make them infinitely little. |