Price
(Price), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Priced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pricing.]
1. To pay the price of. [Obs.]
With thine own blood to price his blood.
Spenser. 2. To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
3. To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.]
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. [R.] 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 and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a
spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.
Shak.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts ix. 5. 2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. "The
pricks of conscience." A. Tucker.
3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: (a) A point or mark on the dial,
noting the hour. [Obs.] "The prick of noon." Shak. (b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the
mark; the pin. "They that shooten nearest the prick." Spenser. (c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
[Obs.] "To prick of highest praise forth to advance." Spenser. (d) A mathematical point; — regularly
used in old English translations of Euclid. (e) The footprint of a hare. [Obs.]
4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
Prick
(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.]
