To Prick

1. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly. [from 11th c.]

1. 1. (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
   2. (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
2. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
3. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
4. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart). [from 16th c.]
5. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
6. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
7. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
9. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
10. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad. [from 13th c.]
11. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly. [from 14th c.]
12. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
13. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
14. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
15. To aim at a point or mark.
16. (obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.