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a sharp, lifeless excrescence on a plant; a spine; a prickle; a thorn.
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a plant that is full of thorns; a prickly plant.
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the sharp point of anything.
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a sharp-pointed organ in insects and certain other animals, used to prick, wound or inject poison (as a scorpion does); a sting.
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a slender, pointed metal piece at the centre of the beam of a weighing balance, that indicates the difference in wieights between the two pans.
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a sharp device fixed to the shoe of a rider, to urge or stir the horse into action by prodding.
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any long, stiff, prickly spines of a porcupine.
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any bristlelike fibre or fibres, as on the head of barley, oats or wheat; an awn.
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an indicator (either of the two or any of the three, sometimes) of time in the conventional clock or watch; a hand.
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the plant Solanum ferox of Solanaceae family; hairy nighty shade.
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the writing point of a fountain pen or quill pen; a nib.
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(fig.) an annoyance, irritation; repeated botheration.