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-- To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. -- To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. -- To take notice of. See under Notice. -- To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. -- To take off. (a) To r…

A label to show the character or price of goods.

The price paid for towing.

f the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. Stewart.

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.

d by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute. Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. C. C. Pinckney.

An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant]

The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.

or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.

A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.

To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation. Milton.

To do like work at a less price than; as, one mason may underwork another.

Invaluable; being beyond price. [Obs.] South.

Having inestimable value; invaluable. [Obs.] The golden apples of unvalued price. Spenser.

t, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. Matt. xiii. 6. Those that were up themselves kept others low. Spenser. Helen was up -- was she Shak. Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. Shak. His…

Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold. After a solemn pause, Mr…

Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.

The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.

Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of…