Vocabulary : Prickmadam to Prideless

Prickmadam : A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
Prickpunch : A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
Prickshaft : An arrow.
Pricksong : Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
Prickwood : A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

Pricky : Stiff and sharp; prickly.
Pride : A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper. ;; The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. ;; A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. ;; Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. ;; That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. ;; Show; ostentation; glory. ;; Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. ;; Con
Prided : of Pride
Prideful : Full of pride; haughty.
Prideless : Without pride.

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