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sons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.

ossessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements. The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account. Holland.

The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell.

The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton.

lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants. Abbott.

To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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

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. Shak.

orbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months. J. S. Mill.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.

urchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged. Locke.

To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. Gen. xxv. 10.

own. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion of traitors. Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak. Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Baco…

A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. [Obs.] "Quirks of joy and grief." Shak.

The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.

To name the current price of.

to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. Sir W. Temple.

To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.