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or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.

er; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

The price paid for coopers; work.

1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate. -- Corn marigold. (Bot.) See under Marigold. -- Corn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.)…

property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edif…

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

The money or price paid for the use of a crane.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. [Prov. Eng.] Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle.

Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak.

Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. The dearness of corn. Swift.

To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to dep…

The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge. Milton.

ade from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.

to sift; to investigate; to ventilate. "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.

place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.