Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with prickles.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prickle.

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Examples

  • We rode the elevator with a junior lieutenant whose skin prickled at the sound of my respirator.

    Archive 2005-05-08 2005

  • We rode the elevator with a junior lieutenant whose skin prickled at the sound of my respirator.

    Darth Sidious: People Person 2005

  • His skin prickled, as if with an electric current, for hot rage ate into his soul.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • Even as she spoke, the hair at the nape of my neck prickled; she was calling the ley again.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The hair on the nape of my neck prickled as she called to that ley energy and a pulse answered her.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • It prickled over my flesh with the delicate brutality of thorns, delicious and sinful and utterly him.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • A flush prickled over my cheeks as he raised a brow.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • To her horror, her throat tightened and her eyes prickled with the threat of oncoming tears.

    Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011

  • They cooked his favorite meals, they read him stories, they brought him tunas, the succulent cactus fruit encased in a prickled dark purple husk that had to be opened very carefully and expertly.

    The Painter's Wife, a short story 2009

  • I sat there and my blood prickled like pine straw in my veins, in my heart.

    Where You Lay Your Dreams Sterling McKennedy 2011

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