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.

• noun A slender pointed instrument or other thing capable of puncturing; something sharp-pointed.
• noun A thorn; spine; prickle.
• noun A skewer.
• noun A goad. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] The penis. [Low.] A kind of eel-spear. [Eng.]
• noun Same as pricket, 1.
• noun A point; dot; small mark.
• noun Specifically— A mark used in writing or printing, as a vowel-point or a comma.
• noun In archery, the point in the center of a target at which aim is taken; the white; also, the target itself, or, in the plural, a pair of targets, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the range.
• noun A mark on a dial noting the hour; hence, a point of time.
• noun A mark denoting degree; pitch; point.
• noun A mathematical point.
• noun In music, a note or point: so called from the dot or mark that formed its head.
• noun The act or process of puncturing or pricking.
• noun A puncture.
• noun The print of the foot of a hare or deer on the ground.
• noun plural In tanning, an appearance as of minute punctures in hides soaked in water until decomposition begins.
• noun Figuratively, that which pierces, stings, goads, or incites the mind.
• noun A small roll: as, a prick of spun-yarn; a prick of tobacco.
• 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.