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A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

Appraisement.

An appraiser.

y. The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

To laud or praise greatly.

Puffed; praised. Carlyle.

lobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.

To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1.

Grateful praise or worship.

a boiler. -- To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. -- To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. -- To blow up. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to bl…

kminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

A lance or dart made of cane. [R.] Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden.

To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)

A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.

One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.

finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. Macaulay.

to happen; inevitable. Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak.