Prick"song` (?; 115), n. [See Prick, v. t., 4.] Music written, or
noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with
which it is noted down. [Obs.]
He fights as you sing pricksong.
Shak.
Prick"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) A shrub (Euonymus EuropÊus); -- so named
from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also
spindle tree.
Prick"y (?), a. Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.
Pride (?), n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.] (Zoˆl.) A
small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid,
and sandpiper.
Pride, n. [AS. prte; akin to Icel. pri honor, ornament, pr&?;&?;a to
adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf. W. prydus comely. See Proud.] 1. 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.
Those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Dan. iv. 37.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Franklin.
2. 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.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
Goldsmith.
A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote
ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with
pride by remote descendants.
Macaulay.
3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of
demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
Let not the foot of pride come against me.
Ps. xxxvi. 11.
That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
Shak.
4. 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.
Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.
Spenser.