Definition of prize

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Prize (v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.

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Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Prize :: Prize (v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
Misprize :: Misprize (v.) To slight or undervalue.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize..
Play :: Play (v. t.) 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..
Girlond :: Girlond (n.) A garland; a prize.
Prize :: Prize (n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
Beccafico :: Beccafico (n.) A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc..
Prize :: Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
Play :: Play (n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play..
Purse :: Purse (n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse..
Lottery :: Lottery (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance..
Prize :: Prize (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery..
Prizing :: Prizing (n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5..
Foreprize :: Foreprize (v. t.) To prize or rate beforehand.
Game :: Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble..
Timothy Grass :: Timothy grass () A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix..
Priser :: Priser (n.) See 1st Prizer.
Prize :: Prize (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever..
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