What is to prick, as with a thorn. [Poetic] I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him. Tennyson called?
thorn — To prick, as with a thorn. [Poetic] I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him. Tennyson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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