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n. Basking in the sun. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirqūq, al-burqūq. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. praiko`kia, pl. (Diosc. c. 100) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See Precocious, Cook. ] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. arcebiscoprīce. See -ric. ] The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the initial price of something (goods or services) without the additional charges that may be added, such as handling or shipping charges, sales tax, optional equipment charges, etc. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. bisceoprīce; bisceop bishop + rīce dominion. See -ric. ] 1. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caper goat. ] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capric acid (also called decanoic acid), C9H19.CO.OH,
Caprylic acid (also called octanoic acid), C7H15.CO2.H, and
Caproic acid (also called hexanoic acid), C5H11.CO2.H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. See Caprice. ] 1. (Mus.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A caprice; a freak; a fancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus) In a free, fantastic style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i. ] 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. “Caprices of appetite.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) See Capriccio.

Syn. -- Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. capricieux, It. capriccioso. ] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. “Capricious poet.” Shak. “Capricious humor.” Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary.

-- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capricornus; caper goat + cornu horn: cf. F. capricorne. ] 1. (Astron.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capricorn beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shrubs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer, calculated and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; abbreviated CPI, and usually referred to by that acronym. The Bureau maintains several indices for different groups of consumers, but the most commonly referred to is the index for “All urban consumers”, called the CPI-U. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.
Syn. -- CPI, cost-of-living index. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ For a table of values from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the CPI over time, see CPI-U from 1913 to 1998. [ PJC ]

a. [ From Cuprum. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. same as cut-rate. [ Chiefly British ]
Syn. -- cut-rate(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a price much lower than normal market price; as, the Reagan administration sold off valuable mineral and timber resources at fire-sale prices. [ PJC ]

adj. same as low-cost.
Syn. -- inexpensive, low-cost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n. Also }. [ Hung. paprika Turkish pepper; prob. through G. ] The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A hard rider. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf. Gr. &unr_; I sell &unr_; to buy, Skr. pa&unr_; to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v., Precious, Prize. ] 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. “Buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isa. lv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can afford no more at such a price. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Value; estimation; excellence; worth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her price is far above rubies. Prov. xxxi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

New treasures still, of countless price. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is the price of toil,
The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Price current, or
Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Priced p. pr. & vb. n. Pricing. ] 1. To pay the price of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With thine own blood to price his blood. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set a price on; to value. See Prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Thomas Price of San Francisco. ] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of no value; worthless. [ R. ] J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick, pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick, v. ] 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. “The pricks of conscience.” A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: (a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [ Obs. ] “The prick of noon.” Shak. (b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. “They that shooten nearest the prick.” Spenser. (c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [ Obs. ] “To prick of highest praise forth to advance.” Spenser. (d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. (e) The footprint of a hare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pricked p. pr. & vb. n. Pricking. ] [ AS. prician; akin to LG. pricken, D. prikken, Dan. prikke, Sw. pricka. See Prick, n., and cf. Prink, Prig. ] 1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cooks prick it [ a slice ] on a prong of iron. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some who are pricked for sheriffs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The season pricketh every gentle heart. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. “I was pricked with some reproof.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. “The courser . . . pricks up his ears.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To render acid or pungent. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To aim at a point or mark. Hawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . halted. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See Prick, and cf. Brocket. ] (Zool.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. “There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword.” Prov. xii. 18 [ 1583 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Far.) (a) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. (b) Same as Nicking. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sensation of being pricked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dressing one's self for show; prinking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. pricele, pricle; akin to LG. prickel, D. prikkel. See Prick, n. ] 1. A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. [ 1913 Webster ]

Felt a horror over me creep,
Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The stickleback. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Prickly. ] The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prickly. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tailor; -- so called in contempt. [ Old slang ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. --
Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. Opuntia vulgaris, Opuntia Ficus-Indica, and Opuntia Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and Opuntia Dillenii has become common in India. --
Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles. --
Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems. --
Prickly rat (Zool.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.), 1. A prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves; also called toothache tree. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is Xanthoxylum Carolinianum. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.), Hercules'-club, also called the Angelica tree. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. trique-madame. Cf. Tripmadam. ] (Bot.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An arrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Prick, v. t., 4. ] Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not priced; being without a fixed or certain value; also, priceless. “Amethyst unpriced.” Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). [ 1913 Webster ]