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n emulous struggle. "Many a warlike match." Drayton. A solemn match was made; he lost the prize. Dryden.

Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift.

See Misprize. [Obs.] Shak.

Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.

oets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize. I am . . . too weak To oppose your cunning. Shak.

le; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

ecies (S. Cretensis), found in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.

family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.

A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward. "Ambitious to win from me some plume." Milton.

A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc. To think it not the necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep without any regard to glo…

To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

See Price, and 1st Prize. [Obs.]

The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

See 1st Prizer. [Obs.]

application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]