prick

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of piercing or pricking.
• noun The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
• noun A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.
• noun A small, sharp, local pain, such as that made by a needle or bee sting.
• noun A small mark or puncture made by a pointed object.
• noun A pointed object, such as an ice pick, goad, or thorn.
• noun Chiefly British A hare's track or footprint.
• noun Vulgar Slang A penis.
• noun Vulgar Slang A person considered to be mean or contemptible, especially a man.
• intransitive verb To puncture lightly.
• intransitive verb To make (a hole) by puncturing something.
• intransitive verb To spur (a horse).
• intransitive verb To affect with a mental or emotional pang, as of sorrow or remorse.
• intransitive verb To impel as if with a spur; stimulate or provoke.
• intransitive verb To mark or delineate on a surface by means of small punctures.
• intransitive verb To pierce the quick of (a horse's hoof) while shoeing.
• intransitive verb To transplant (seedlings, for example) before final planting.
• intransitive verb To cause to stand erect or point upward.
• intransitive verb To pierce or puncture something or cause a pricking feeling.
• intransitive verb To feel a pang or twinge from being pricked.
• intransitive verb To spur a horse on.
• intransitive verb To ride at a gallop.
• intransitive verb To stand erect; point upward.
• idiom (prick up (one's) ears) To listen with attentive interest.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To pierce with a sharp point; puncture; wound.
• To fix or insert by the point: as, to prick a knife into a board.
• To transfix or impale.
• To fasten by means of a pin or other pointed instrument; stick.
• To pick out with or as with a needle.
• To spur, as a horse; hence, to stimulate to action; goad; incite; impel.
• To affect with sharp pain; sting, as with remorse or sorrow.
• To cause to point upward; erect: said chiefly of the ears, and primarily of the pointed ears of certain animals, as the horse: generally with up: hence, to prick up the ears, to listen with eager attention, or evince eager attention.
• To stick upon by way of decoration; stick full, as of flowers or feathers; hence, to decorate; adorn; prink.
• To place a point, dot, or similar mark upon; mark.
• To designate by a mark or dot; hence, to choose or select. Compare pricking for sheriffs, under pricking.
• To mark or trace by puncturing.
• To trace or track by the marks or footsteps, as a hare.
• Nautical, to run a middle seam through the cloth of (a sail).
• To aim, as at a point or mark.
• To give a sensation as of being pricked or punctured with a sharp point; also, to have such a sensation.
• To spur on; ride rapidly; post; speed.
• To point upward; stand erect.
• To dress one's self for show; prink.
• To germinate.
• To become acid or sour.