To encourage.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
To request formally.
An invitation.
To encourage, to prompt.
To prick with a goad.
To poke, to push, to touch.
A production; a created work.
A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
A poke.
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.