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Prickle

prickle
(prickles, prickling, prickled) 1. If your skin prickles, it feels as if a lot of small sharp points are being stuck into it, either because of something touching it or because you feel a strong emotion. He paused, feeling his scalp prickling under his hat... VERB: V • Prickle is also a noun. I felt a prickle of disquiet. N-COUNT 2. Prickles are small sharp points that stick out from leaves or from the stalks of plants. ...an erect stem covered at the base with a few prickles. N-COUNT: usu pl
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1.
   I. noun  Etymology: Middle English prikle, from Old English pricle; akin to Old English prica prick  Date: 15th century  1. a fine sharp process or projection; especially a sharp pointed emergence arising from the epidermis or bark of a plant  2. a prickling or tingling sensation  II. verb  (~d; prickling)  Date: 1513  transitive verb  1. to prick slightly  2. to produce ~s in  intransitive verb to cause or feel a prickling, tingling, or stinging sensation ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  n. & v. --n. 1 a a small thorn. b Bot. a thornlike process developed from the epidermis of a plant. 2 a hard-pointed spine of a hedgehog etc. 3 a prickling sensation. --v.tr. & intr. affect or be affected with a sensation as of pricking. Etymology: OE pricel PRICK: (v.) also dimin. of PRICK ...
Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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  шип, колючка ...
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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  1. шип, колючка 2. игла (дикобраза, ежа и т. п.) 3. разг. преим. pl. ощущение покалывания, "иголки" 4. колоть, прокалывать 5. испытывать колотье, покалывание 6. становиться колючим ...
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   1. noun шип, колючка; иглы (ежа, дикобраза и т.п.)  2. v.  1) колоть, прокалывать  2) испытывать покалывание, колотье ...
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  ~1 n 1 a long thin sharp point on the skin of some plants and animals 2 a stinging feeling on your skin  (prickles of perspiration) ~2 v 1 to give someone a stinging feeling on their skin  (The bush prickled the back of his legs.) 2 if your skin prickles it begins to sting or feel cold because you are very frightened, angry etc  (The skin on the back of her neck prickled as she heard the door creak open. | prickle with anger/excitement etc (=to feel strong anger, excitement etc))  (She spoke brusquely, prickling with an increasing dislike of Damien Flint.) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  - O.E. pricel "thing to prick with," from the same source as O.E. prician (see prick). Prickly in the sense of "irritable" was first recorded 1862; prickly heat is from 1736; prickly pear is from 1760. ...
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