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Pric"a*sour (?), n. A hard rider. [Obs.]

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., 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.

We can afford no more at such a price.

Shak.

2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Her price is far above rubies.

Prov. xxxi. 10.

New treasures still, of countless price.

Keble.

3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.

Pope.

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.

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 (?), a. Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.

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

Price"less, a. 1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.

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

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.