n. A hard rider. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf. Gr. &unr_; I sell &unr_; to buy, Skr. pa&unr_; to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v., Precious, Prize. ] 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. “Buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isa. lv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can afford no more at such a price. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her price is far above rubies. Prov. xxxi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

New treasures still, of countless price. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is the price of toil,
The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Price current, or
Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Priced p. pr. & vb. n. Pricing. ] 1. To pay the price of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With thine own blood to price his blood. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set a price on; to value. See Prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Thomas Price of San Francisco. ] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of no value; worthless. [ R. ] J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. “The pricks of conscience.” A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cooks prick it [ a slice ] on a prong of iron. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some who are pricked for sheriffs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The season pricketh every gentle heart. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. “I was pricked with some reproof.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. “The courser . . . pricks up his ears.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To render acid or pungent. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To aim at a point or mark. Hawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]