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Definition of Pricks

Prick
Prick Prick, n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick, v.] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. --Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. --Acts ix. 5. 2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. ``The pricks of conscience.' --A. Tucker. 3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: (a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [Obs.] ``The prick of noon.' --Shak. (b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. ``They that shooten nearest the prick.' --Spenser. (c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [Obs.] ``To prick of highest praise forth to advance.' --Spenser. (d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. (e) The footprint of a hare. [Obs.] 4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
Prick
Prick Prick, v. i. 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. 2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. --Milton. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. --Spenser. 3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. 4. To aim at a point or mark. --Hawkins.

Meaning of Pricks from wikipedia

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- In medicine, some blood tests are conducted on capillary blood obtained by fingerstick (or fingerprick) (or, for neonates, by an analogous heelprick)....