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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. 57 You see hereby Spinage, so tearmed (as you knowe) of the prickly seedes, called in Latine Spinacia.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xxxiv. 700 The leaues of Holly are..full of sharpe poyntes or prickley corners.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cccxxx. 772 The great melon or Pompion bringeth foorth thicke and rough prickly stalkes.

1626 F. Bacon Sylva §458 Artichoakes will be lesse prickly, and more tender, if the Seedes haue their Tops dulled or grated off vpon a Stone.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 182 Mr. John Denley..began to sing a Psalm at the Stake, and Dr. Story..caused a prickley fagot to be hurled in his face, which so hurt him, that he bled therewith.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 315 I examine its fins, whether they be prickly or soft.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 527 The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse.

1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) I. iv. 76 Pretty thatched cottages standing in little compounds, or yards, hedged round with a kind of prickly fence.

1911 Times 17 July 10/5 In many districts where gorse and prickly vegetation may be met with gaiters are an indispensible protection.

1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. i. 8 Short blunt fingers prickly with big art-and-crafty rings.

1961 J. Dawson Ha-ha vi. 114 We started walking across fields that were prickly with stubble.

1991 J. Smiley Thousand Acres i. 4 That was the year my father bought his first car, a Buick sedan with prickly gray velvet seats.

2001 H. Holmes Secret Life Dust iv. 45 Camel ticks, sensing opportunity, came trundling from the skimpy shade of prickly silver-green shrubs.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 159 The smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh.

1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 4 The patient complained of a prickly feeling of the limbs.

1849 H. Melville Mardi II. xxxix.156 All I am sure of, is a sort of prickly sensation all over me, which they call life.

1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold i. 81 The skin grows hot and prickly.

1960 Spectator 16 Sept. 417 That curious prickly after-taste which appears to be characteristic of every foodstuff in which monosodium glutamate figures.

1979 W. Zander Distances v. 66 Watery eyes, prickly skin, shimmery Waves of heat.

2002 Guardian 15 Apr. i. 15/2 The venom causes a condition called irukandji syndrome, where the victim feels a prickly sensation followed by severe cramps, stomach and back pains, and nausea.

1771 R. Weston Universal Botanist II. 201 Spanish prickly-cupped Dwarf Cistus.

?1788 J. Abercrombie Gen. Syst. Trees & Shrubs 198/1 Prickly-cupped Spanish Oak. A most lofty, large, deciduous tree, of beautiful growth..and acorns in very large, prickly cups.

1872 tr. L. Figuier Veg. World (new ed.) 370 The Prickly-cupped Oak or Valonia..which grows in the Morea, valuable for its acorns.

1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Knapweed, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Prickly headed Knapweed, Iacea cap: hir. Boelii.

1799 C. Murrray Brit. Garden 606 Prickly headed Liquorice. Legumes prickly; leaves with stipules.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. June 419/1 The prickly-headed Poppy.

1990 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 17 Oct. c1/3 That quirky, prickly-headed kid, Bart Simpson.

2002 Portage (Manitoba) Daily Graphic (Nexis) 2 Nov. 10 Some, such as the Long Prickly-headed poppy are native to the English landscape or countryside.

1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 3 Prickly leaved Holly.

1766 J. Woodhouse Poems (ed. 2) 109 By these, the prickly-leaved oak you see.

1873 G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean 283 A dark green prickly-leaved bush like English holly, called the Oregon grape.

1977 Daily Tel. 15 Feb. 17/4 Pretty Tongan girls..kept the Royal party as cool as they could with fans made from the prickly-leaved pandanus tree.

2005 R. L. Jones Plant Life of Kentucky 136 Plants various but, if prickly-leaved, then leaves alternate.

1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon ii. 33 A prickly-stemmed fan-leaved palm.

1934 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 4 Oct. 12/7 Prickly stemmed flowers.

2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Sept. h4 This prickly stemmed wild Asian rose is a dangerously invasive plant.

1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia 26 The bark of the root of..the Prickly Ash, being dried and powder'd, has been found to be a Specifick, in old Ulcers, and Long-running Sores.

1743 J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica II. 150 Aralia... Gambriar and Prickly-ash.

1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 110 I saw here a prickly ash (Zanthoxylion Clava Herculis), the size of an ordinary ash, but the same species as that of the southern states, and the bark proving equally efficacious for allaying the tooth-ache.

1860 M. A. Curtis Bot. 91 Prickly ash. (Aralia spinosa)... The berries..are thought by some to be also a valuable remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake.

2004 Photochem. & Photobiol. 79 506/1 Northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, is a traditional phytomedicine used by the North American First Nation's Peoples as a topical agent for the treatment of skin infections.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood at Jack-sharps Tom Barsey's. Prickly-Backs. Small fresh-water fishes, called by these several names.

1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 174 Tom Cods,..Prickly Backs... Dog Fish. Bill Fish.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pricklyback, the edible crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the new shell is only partially hardened; a shedder.

1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 171 Prickly-backs, stickle-backs; found in brick-ponds, etc., and the delight of very youthful anglers.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 674 Butchers broome..is called..in base Almaigne, Stekende palme, that is to say, Prickley Boxe.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xxv. 1151 It is named in Greeke πυχáκανθα, which a man may call in Latine Buxea spina: and in English, Boxe Thorne: of some, Asses Boxe Tree, and prickley Boxe.

1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 90 Theres Sowbread, Stanwort, and Starre of Hierusalem, Base or flat Veruine, and the wholesome Tansie,..Bell rags, prickly Boxe, and Raspis of Couentry.

1792 J. Hamilton Culpeper's Eng. Family Physician I. 190 Prickly Box... It was from a decoction of the small branches, seeds, and roots of this tree, that the ancient physicians made their lycium.

1904 Emu 3 216 Found a Fire-tailed Finch's..nest just begun in a prickly box.

2000 Hobart Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Weekend section) 43 The basic rules are to provide thick shrubbery—like prickly box—to give birds shelter from predators.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xviii. 1138 There be diuers sorts of prickley Broome, called in our English toong by sundry names..in some places Furzes, in others Whinnes, and Gorsse, and of some pricklie Broome.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 29 It is found..most copiously amongst our Whinns or prickly Broom.

1763 P. Miller Abridgem. of Gardeners Dict. (ed. 5) Anthyllis... Prickly Broom with duckmeat leaves and bluish purple flowers.

1923 Mod. Lang. Notes 38 395 This is nature's way of adorning waste and wild places with pretty gold and green. It is known here indifferently as furze, gorse, whin and prickly broom.

2000 Farmer's Guardian (Nexis) 13 Oct. 46 The name ‘broom’ or ‘broomstick’ came about..because originally prickly broom was used tied in a bundle by butchers to scrub their cutting blocks.

1836 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana III. 295 Cottus Asper. (Richardson) Prickly Bull-head.

1873–6 Amer. Cycl. 428/1 There is a cottoid in the Columbia river, called the prickly bullhead.

1937 Ecology 18 452 The prickly bullhead is found in many bodies of fresh water connected with the sea.

1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 49 From the prickly Cedar when it is burned comes forth that which with us, is usually known by the name of Tar.

1858 G. R. Fairbanks Hist. & Antiq. 64 His promenade among the briars, vines, prickly cedars, chaparral, and prickly pears of Anastasia, seems to have been a true via dolorosa.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 24 Cedar, Prickly, Juniperus Oxycedrus.

2000 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 10 Dec. h1 If you are working with prickly cedar, wear gloves to protect your hands.

1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 150/2 The Prickly C[omfrey], S. asperrimum, a native of Siberia,..has been highly recommended for feeding cattle.

1914 C. V. Piper Forage Plants & their Culture 580 The seed of prickly comfrey is not very satisfactory so the plant is usually propagated by divisions of the crown or by sections of the taproot.

2004 Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Voice for Island Seniors section) 18 There are several different species of comfrey, two of which are already prohibited from being used in therapeutic products in Canada because they contain echimidine: prickly comfrey and Russian comfrey.

1764 J. Petiver Jacobi Petiveri Opera 9/2 Common Prickly Fern..in moist and shady ditches.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 182 The prickly fern (polystichum aculeatum)..exceedingly abundant in England and Jersey.

2001 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 30 July a1 She wears a plastic glove on one hand to protect her from the chemicals and layers it with a knit glove to protect her hand from prickly fern spines.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1284 Kali spinosum Prickly Glassewort.

1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Eastern shrubby prickly Glasswort, with a stinking ground-pine Leaf.

1935 W. C. L. Muenscher Weeds ii. 214 Salsola Kali... Russian thistle, Saltwort, Prickly glasswort.

1999 Jrnl. Biotechnol. 70 79 (table) Salsola kali..Prickly glasswort... Deadly to cows in large quantities.

1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 129 The Isle produces nothing but a sort of green, short, hard, prickly Grass.

1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 54 Echinochloa P. de B. Prickly-grass.

1957 D. McClintock Suppl. to Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 44 Prickly grass, Tragus racemosus (L.) Allioni, is an annual with..fewer globular..1-flowered spikelets all fertile and very rough with hooked bristles.

2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 1 May e1 We snaked our way on foot..along an uphill path of red-orange dirt dotted with spinefex [sic] (a prickly grass), which we were warned to avoid.

1785 R. Relhan Flora Cantabrigiensis 293 Prickly Lettuce... Borders of Fields... In the Isle of Ely.

1896 Bot. Gaz. 21 34 Among the weeds of recent introduction in America, the prickly lettuce..ranks next to the Russian thistle in the rapidity with which it has spread.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 363/1 Prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola, is a tall annual with panicles of yellow flowers (closing up early in the day) and spiny grey-green leaves, which clasp the stem at their base.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1640 Duriones, the prickly fruitfull Melon.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 83/1 The prickly Melon..the fruit hath a green rind set full of short and thick sharp pricks, having some strakes thereon, as the melon hath.

1994 Modesto Bee (Nexis) 10 July a3 The garden also has Asian pumpkins, a squash coveted for stews; prickly melons, diced and combined with coconut milk and ice for a dessert.

1887 Australian Apr. 9/3 An expedition was now made into the scrub for fishing rods... I cannot recommend ‘snap-scrub’ for a rod, nor that awful thing which our philosopher called ‘prickly moses’.

1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 276/1 Prickly Moses, a corruption of ‘prickly mimosa’ applied to several species of wattle.

1987 Woman's Day (Melbourne) 27 July 101/1 (caption) Prickly moses, a popular shrub wattle.

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 36 If the Prickly-Palm before described, afford Wine.

1862 Jrnl. Royal. Geogr. Soc. 32 262 The ‘soopa’ is a prickly-palm, about 30 feet high; it grows both wild and cultivated; it produces large bunches of fruit about the size of a potato.

1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 134/2 Bactris major... Prickly palm. Sts. many.., at first prickly but becoming smooth with age.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Parsnep, Prickly, Echinophora.

1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. c7/1 For centuries, parsnips, both wild and cultivated, have grown throughout Europe. There are several varieties, including sea parsnips, prickly parsnips..and giant parsnips.

1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 178 Palma spinosa minor... Prickly pole.

1789 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica (new ed.) 343 The prickly Pole. This slender tree is very common in the inland woods of Jamaica, and supplies the wild hogs with abundance of food.

1828 Ordinances of City of Kingston 107 No fence of penguins or prickly poles shall be made..within the said city.

1995 Brittonia 47 345/2 Early travellers in Jamaica, briefly described the indigeous Bactris populations, ‘Prickly Pole,’ in their accounts.

1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Poppy, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Prickly poppy, Papaver Spinosum.

1712 Catal. Seeds Amer. Islands in J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. sig. c^v Papaver, the white prickly Poppy, with the Hellebore Leaf, whose yellow or golden Juice purges dropsical Bodies.

1898 A. M. Davidson Calif. Plants 112 The prickly poppy will send out great white flowers with crumpled petals and a great many yellow stamens.

1997 Church Times 13 June 10/5 Last autumn I was sent some seed of the Devil's fig or prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, by friends in New Zealand.

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 71 (heading) The Red Echimys (Prickly Rat of D'Azara).

1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) 500/2 Gunnera (Prickly Rhubarb).—South American plants remarkable for large and handsome foliage, somewhat resembling that of gigantic Rhubarb.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 217 Gunnera (Prickly Rhubarb)... Hardy herbaceous perennials. First introduced mid-nineteenth century.

2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Features section) 71 The bold-leaved prickly rhubarb, Gunnera manicata, is an amazing architectural plant that has huge, palm-like, deeply-veined leaves on stalks up to 8ft tall.

?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 331 Prickly saltwort... Stems of 1 foot, straggling. Leaves rough, prickly.

1894 Times 3 Sept. 10/3 On the sandy shores of Britain may be found growing as a native species the prickly saltwort, Salsola kali.

1998 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 20 Nov. 35 Some plants have leaves that are reduced to spines to reduce the amount of water lost by evaporation. A good example of a spiny plant is the prickly saltwort (Salsola kali).

1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 72 Crithmum spinosum Ger... Prickly Samphire or Sea Parsnep. Observed by Mr. Lawson at Roosbeck in Low-Fourneis, Lancashire.

1723 J. Lewis Hist. & Antiq. Isle of Tenet 14 In a piece of Marsh land near Meregate..Botanists have observed, before it was overflown by the Sea.., prickly Samphire, or Sea-Parsnip.

1799 Lady C. Murray Brit. Garden I. 218 E. Spinosa. Prickly Samphire, or Sea Parsnep. Leaflets very entire, awl-shaped, ending in a thorn.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 120/2 Samphire, Prickly, Echinophora spinosa.

1960 List Common & Sci. Names Fishes U.S. & Canada (Amer. Fisheries Soc. Special Publ. No. 2) (ed. 2) 38 Prickly sculpin... Cottus asper.

1967 Ecology 48 468 Larger juvenile P. stellatus, prickly sculpin (C. asper), and young sturgeon..are primarily bottom feeders that eat mostly amphipods and polychaetes.

2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 11 May These fish invariably stick you when you pick them up. For this reason, one of the freshwater versions is known by the common name, prickly sculpin.

1804 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica III. 1123 Aspidium... Close-leaved Prickly Shield-fern.

1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 70 The Prickly Shield-fern..at a distance may be taken for the Male-fern, for the frond is similar in shape.

2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 June (Features section) 59 The soft shield fern has overlapping leaflets which give it a moss-like appearance, and then there's the prickly shield fern or Polystichum aculeatum, which has spiny projections on its leafy midrib.

1795 Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233 The jagged or serrated sea-weed commonly known by the name of prickly tang in this country [sc. Orkney].

1810 Edinb. Rev. 17 146 The prickly tang..often grows intermixed with the bladder-wrack.

2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Dec. 17 Those seaweeds growing between high and low water mark are known as ‘tang’ whereas those growing at or below low tide are known as ‘ware.’ Tang and ware come in many forms—bow-tang, paddy-tang, prickly tang, mirkle, honey-ware, hen-ware.

1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 196 Ficus Indica folio triangulari ensiformi... Prickly With.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 155 Prickly Withe. This plant has several small roots sticking to the bark of trees.

1926 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica V. 280 Prickly Withe... Flowers opening at night, white... Fruit crimson.

1837 J. Macfadyen Flora Jamaica I. 194 Prickly Yellow... This is a valuable timber tree: the wood is yellow, and used in house building.

1926 Times 27 Oct. 17/5 Countless thousands of the August flight are annual migrants from the Bahamas, which come to feed on the prickly yellow and other berries of the Jamaican hills.

1951 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 16 Aug. 3/1 Other types being brought into service are pearwood, prickly yellow, and light woods strong enough to work as a substitute [for cedar].

1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 138 Prickly yellow wood. In sylvis campestribus Insulæ Jamaicæ.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 189 Zanthoxylum... Prickly Yellow-wood, or yellow Hercules.

1800 J. Elliot Med. pocket-bk. (ed. 5) 168 The powder of zanthoxylon, or prickly yellow wood, has been recommended as extremely efficacious in foul and inveterate ulcers.

1934 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 16 Aug. 2/ The Acting Governor..made an order adding ‘Pepper Leaf Sweetwood’, ‘Burnose’ or wild Ackee and Prickly Yellow Wood to schedule A of that Law.