Word Meanings - ACUPUNCTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically :

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• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• PRICKING-UP
  The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• PRICKLINESS
  The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• PRICKSONG
  Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down. He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak.
• PRICKWOOD
  A shrub ; -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• PRICKLE
  1. A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. Bacon. 2. A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson. 3. A
• PRICKY
  Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.
• PRICKET
  A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak.
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• PRICKMADAM
  A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
• NEEDLEBOOK
  A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
• PRICKING
  1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." Prov. xii. 18 . The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. Same as Nicking. 3. A sensation of being pricked.
• NEEDLEFISH
  The European great pipefich ; -- called also earl, and tanglefish. The garfish.
• PRICKER
  A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. 2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman. The prickers,
• UPPRICKED
  Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. Mason.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
  A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.