Crossword clues for prise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prize \Prize\ (pr[imac]z), n. [F. prise a seizing, hold, grasp, fr. pris, p. p. of prendre to take, L. prendere, prehendere; in some senses, as 2 (b), either from, or influenced by, F. prix price. See Prison, Prehensile, and cf. Pry, and also Price.]
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That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
I will depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation.
--Chaucer.His own prize, Whom formerly he had in battle won.
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Hence, specifically;
(Law) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
--Kent.
--Brande & C.-
An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
I'll never wrestle for prize more.
--Shak.I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.
--Dryden. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
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Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
--Phil. iii. 1 4. A contest for a reward; competition. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. [Written also prise.]
Prize court, a court having jurisdiction of all captures made in war on the high seas.
--Bouvier.Prize fight, an exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists, for a stake or wager.
Prize fighter, one who fights publicly for a reward; -- applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist.
--Pope.Prize fighting, fighting, especially boxing, in public for a reward or wager.
Prize master, an officer put in charge or command of a captured vessel.
Prize medal, a medal given as a prize.
Prize money, a dividend from the proceeds of a captured vessel, etc., paid to the captors.
Prize ring, the ring or inclosure for a prize fight; the system and practice of prize fighting.
To make prize of, to capture.
--Hawthorne.
Prize \Prize\, v. t. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry. [Written also prise.]
Prize \Prize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prized; p. pr. & vb. n. Prizing.] [F. priser, OF. prisier, preisier, fr. L. pretiare, fr. pretium worth, value, price. See Price, and cf. Praise.] [Formerly written also prise. ]
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To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
A goodly price that I was prized at.
--Zech. xi. 13.I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.
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To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem. ``[I] do love, prize, honor you. ''
--Shak.I prized your person, but your crown disdain.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) An enterprise. 2 (obsolete form of prize English) vb. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
WordNet
v. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prize, lever, jimmy]
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry]
regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize] [ant: disrespect, disrespect]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "prise".
Rather than pursue the point, he prised one of the newspapers loose, stared for the fifth or sixth time at the article reporting a complete absence of progress in the police investigation of the disappearance of Heather Mallender, then slammed it back onto the table with a grunt of disgust.
Darcy watched a forlorn family prise open a badly contorted marsupium shell with deep scorch marks on the oyster-coloured casing.
Tom Connors store to get some carosene and old Francis was going down town with Perry Molton and they was talking about who was the best fellers in school and who they was going to give the prises.
I prised at the seal with the blade of my penknife as gently as an apothecary slicing the seed pod of a rare plant.
He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.
Napoleon and Vulge prised Bingo up and away from the shoulders of Stonks and stood him on the ground.
Elles ont ete prises pour des images de Marie, et, tenues pour miraculeuses, ont attire des pelerins dans le sanctuaire ou on les avait deposees au sortir de terre.
Daikoff was not out of eye-shot, however, and both Watches Bowen and Ool would have been vastly sur prised had they known that the big man whose dark eyes watched them so intently, was making those eyes serve as ears.
Eventually she will allow one of her flatmates to prise the story from her.
That was when we lived at Peacehaven and I had been on an easy pitch on those same cliffs the week before, prising fossils out of the chalk.
The two Africans came to help, pulling the trunk clear and prising the jaw open with their axe handles.
If Bicky's people hadn't left him anything and he depended on what he could prise out of the old duke, he was in a pretty bad way.
He then adds that these muscles, from their attachment and position, are fitted "à resserrer, à concentrer les principaux traits de la face, comme il convient dans toutes ces passions vraiment oppressives ou profondes, dans ces affections dont le sentiment semble porter l'organisation à revenir sur elle-même, à se contracter et à s'amoindrir, comme pour offrir moins de prise et de surface à des impressions redoutables ou importunes.
There were nine men there altogether, some prising out lumps of limestone with pickaxes and crowbars to add to the heap of rubble at their feet, others loading the rubble on to rubber-tyred wheel-barrows while a gigantic man clad only in denim trousers and singlet closely examined each lump with a powerful torch.
Poised at the break of the quarterdeck he checked the position once more: the Surprise prise had already passed three ships, the Addington, Bombay castle and Camden, moving up in the opposite direction towards their turning-point.