Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 119

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

Priceite (n.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

Priceless (a.) Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.

Priceless (a.) Of no value; worthless.

Prick (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

Prick (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.

Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

Prick (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

Prick (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

Prick (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.

Prick (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

Prick (v.) The footprint of a hare.

Prick (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

Pricked (imp. & p. p.) of Prick

Pricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick

Prick (n.) 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.

Prick (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.

Prick (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.

Prick (n.) 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.

Prick (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.

Prick (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

Prick (n.) 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.

Prick (n.) To render acid or pungent.

Prick (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.

Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

Prick (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

Prick (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

Prick (n.) To nick.

Prick (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.

Prick (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

Prick (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.

Prick-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs.

Pricker (n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.

Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.

Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.

Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking.

Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

Pricking (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.

Pricking (n.) A sensation of being pricked.

Pricking (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

Pricking (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Pricking-up (n.) 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 States called scratch coat.

Prickle (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.

Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.

Prickle (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

Prickleback (n.) Alt. of Pricklefish

Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.

Prickliness (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.

Prickling (a.) Prickly.

Pricklouse (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Prickly (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

Prickpunch (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.

Pricksong (v. t.) Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.

Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

Pricky (a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly.

Pride (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

Pride (n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

Pride (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

Pride (n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

Pride (n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Pride (n.) Show; ostentation; glory.

Pride (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

Pride (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

Prided (imp. & p. p.) of Pride

Priding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pride

Pride (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.

Pride (v. i.) To be proud; to glory.

Prideful (a.) Full of pride; haughty.

Prideless (a.) Without pride.

Pridian (a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.

Pridingly (adv.) Proudly.

Prie (n.) The plant privet.

Prie (v. i.) To pry.

Pried () imp. & p. p. of Pry.

Priedieu (n.) A kneeling desk for prayers.

Prief (n.) Proof.

Prier (n.) One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.

Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister

Priest (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.

Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Priest (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

Priest (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Priestcap (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others.

Priestery (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.

Priestess (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.

Priesthood (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.

Priesthood (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.

Priesting (n.) The office of a priest.

Priestism (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.

Priestless (a.) Without a priest.

Priestlike (a.) Priestly.

Priestliness (n.) The quality or state of being priestly.

Priestly (a.) Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.

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