Price
Price (?), n. [OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf. Gr. � I sell � to buy, Skr. pa� to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v., Pre...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Price (2)
Price, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Priced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pricing.] 1. To pay the price of.With thine own blood to price his blood. Spenser.2. To set a price on; to value. See Prize....
Priced
Priced (?), a. Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
Priceite
Price″ite (?), n. [From Thomas Price of San Francisco.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
Priceless
Price″less, a. 1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
Prick
Prick (?), n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick, v.] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp...
Prick (2)
Prick (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pricked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pricking.] [AS. prician; akin to LG. pricken, D. prikken, Dan. prikke, Sw. pricka. See Prick, n., and cf. Prink, Prig.]...
Prick (3)
Prick, v. i. 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton.A gentle knight was pri...
Prick-eared
Prick″–eared′ (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having erect, pointed ears; — said of certain dogs.Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak.
Pricker
Prick″er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman.The prickers, who rode foremost,......
Pricket
Prick″et (?), n. [Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See Prick, and cf. Brocket.] (Zoöl.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak.
Pricking
Prick″ing, n. 1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. “There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword.” Prov. xii. 18 [1583].2. (Far.) (a) The driving of ...
Pricking-up
Prick″ing–up (?), n.(Arch.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United S...
Prickle
Pric″kle (?), n. [AS. pricele, pricle; akin to LG. prickel, D. prikkel. See Prick, n.] 1. A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the ...
Prickle (2)
Pric″kle, v. t. To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.Felt a horror over me creep,Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson.
Prickleback
{ Pric″kle‐back′ (?), Pric″kle‐fish′ (?), } n.(Zoöl.) The stickleback.
Prickliness
Prick″li‐ness (?), n. [From Prickly.] The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
Prickling
Prick″ling (?), a. Prickly. Spenser.
Pricklouse
Prick″louse′ (?), n. A tailor; — so called in contempt. L'Estrange.
Prickly
Prick″ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.Prickly ash(Bot.), a prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flo...
Prickmadam
Prick″mad′am (?), n. [F. trique-madame. Cf. Tripmadam.] (Bot.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
Prickpunch
Prick″punch′ (?), n. A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
Prickshaft
Prick″shaft′ (?), n. An arrow.
Pricksong
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.He fights as you si...
Prickwood
Prick″wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); — so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
Pricky
Prick″y (?), a. Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.
Pride
Pride (?), n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.] (Zoöl.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); — called also prid, and sandpiper.