transitive. To irritate, vex, provoke. Now only in tar on (Shakespeare tarre on), to incite, hound on.

figurative. To incite, instigate, egg or urge on to or to do something. Obsolete.

transitive. To incite, encourage, urge on; to provoke, tempt. Cf. edge, v.1 Const. (†til), to, unto (an action, enterprise, etc.). Obsolete except as…

figurative. To drive on or hasten; to incite, impel, or stimulate; to urge or prompt. Frequently const. to (do something, or some course of…

To prick, spur on.

transitive. To incite, urge on, encourage. Const. on, to, till, and to with infinitive. Also with on.

= sharpen, v. 3. Obsolete.

transitive. To incite, urge on, provoke.

To render eager for attack; to goad on. Obsolete.

Expressing promptitude or eagerness for action. to set (a person) forth: to urge forward. to make oneself forth: to bestir oneself, prepare.

To thrust forth. Obsolete.

with on. Const. to, etc.

transferred. To incite or set (a person) at or on another; to incite or urge on.

figurative. To bring into prominence. Also, to impel, urge forward in a course of action. Obsolete.

To urge on, incite, provoke, encourage (a person); = egg, v.1 (but usually with more direct reference to the noun); also, to stimulate, give…

To incite (a person) to exertion, to urge.

figurative. With on.

transitive. To spur; to urge or incite.

transitive. To incite (a person) to do something; to urge (a person or animal). In later use frequently with on. Now U.S. regional.

with on: = egg on (see egg, v.1 2).

transitive. To incite or urge on with the exclamation ‘hist’. Cf. hist, int. 2. rare.

figurative. To urge on, impel, incite. Obsolete.

figurative. To brace to, rarely for (action) or to (do something). Also, to attune to (a frame of mind). Also (Australian and New Zealand slang)…

transitive. English regional (Yorkshire and Westmorland). To pester (the life, etc.) out of a person; to harass; to badger. Also: to urge or…

transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To goad, spur, or provoke (someone).