Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 119
Priced (a.) Rated in price;
valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
Priceite (n.) A hydrous borate of
lime, from
Priceless (a.) Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.
Priceless (a.) Of no value; worthless.
Prick (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
Prick (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
Prick (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
Prick (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
Prick (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
Prick (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
Prick (v.) The footprint of a hare.
Prick (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
Pricked (imp. & p. p.) of Prick
Pricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick
Prick (n.) 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.
Prick (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
Prick (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
Prick (n.) 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.
Prick (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
Prick (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
Prick (n.) 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.
Prick (n.) To render acid or pungent.
Prick (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
Prick (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
Prick (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
Prick (n.) To nick.
Prick (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
Prick (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
Prick (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.
Prick (v.) [ T ] 刺，戳，紮 To make a very small hole or holes in the surface of something, sometimes in a way that causes pain.
// Prick the skin of the potatoes with a fork before baking them.
// She pricked the balloon with a pin and it burst with a loud bang.
Idiom:
Prick sb's conscience 使（某人）的良心受到譴責 To make someone do something because they feel guilty.
// Dan's mentioning Julia pricked my conscience and I gave her a call.
Idiom:
Prick the bubble (of sth) 戳穿（…的）虛幻泡影 To make someone suddenly understand the unpleasant truth of a situation.
Phrasal verb:
Prick (sth) up ( -- Phrasal verb with Prick) (v.) [ T ] （動物）豎起（耳朵）聽 When an animal pricks its ears up, or when its ears prick up, it puts its ears up straight because it is listening carefully to a small sound or one that is far away.
Prick (sth) up ( -- Phrasal verb with Prick) (v.) [ T ] （人）側（耳）傾聽 If you prick up your ears, or if your ears prick up, you suddenly begin to listen very carefully because you have heard something interesting.
// I overheard them mentioning my name and pricked up my ears.
Prick (n.) [ C ] (Offensive) (Body part) 陰莖 A penis.
Prick (n.) [ C ] (Man) 蠢貨，笨蛋，白癡 A stupid man.
// I'm not wearing that - I'd look a complete prick.
Prick-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs.
Pricker (n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.
Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.
Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.
Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking.
Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.
Pricking (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.
Pricking (n.) A sensation of being pricked.
Pricking (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
Pricking (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
Pricking-up (n.) 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.
Prickle (n.) 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.
Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
Prickle (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
Prickleback (n.) Alt. of Pricklefish
Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
Prickliness (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
Prickling (a.) Prickly.
Pricklouse (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Prickly (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
Prickpunch (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.
Pricksong (v. t.) Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
Pricky (a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly.
Pride (n.) (Zool.) A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); -- called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.
Pride (n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. -- Dan. iv. 37.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. -- Franklin.
Pride (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. -- Goldsmith.
A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. -- Macaulay.
Pride (n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
Let not the foot of pride come against me. -- Ps. xxxvi. 11.
That hardly we escaped the pride of France. -- Shak.
Pride (n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. -- Spenser.
I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. -- Zech. ix. 6.
A bold peasantry, their country's pride. -- Goldsmith.
Pride (n.) Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. -- Shak.
Pride (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place. -- Shak.
Pride (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]
{Pride of India}, or {Pride of China}. (Bot.) See {Margosa}.
{Pride of the desert} (Zool.), The camel.
Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness; lordliness; loftiness.
Usage: {Pride}, {Vanity}. Pride is a high or an excessive esteem of one's self for some real or imagined superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc. Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted, etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride; but one may have great pride without displaying it. Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is applied especially to the exhibition of pride in superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
Prided (imp. & p. p.) of Pride
Priding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pride
Pride (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. -- Bp. Hall.
Pluming and priding himself in all his services. -- South.
Pride (v. i.) To be proud; to glory. [R.]
Pride (n.) A feeling of self-respect and personal worth [syn: {pride}, {pridefulness}] [ant: {humbleness}, {humility}].
Pride (n.) Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; "he takes pride in his son's success".
Pride (n.) The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards.
Pride (n.) A group of lions.
Pride (n.) Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {pride}, {superbia}].
Pride (v.) Be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: {pride}, {plume}, {congratulate}].
PRIDE () PRofitable Information by DEsign (IRM)
Prideful (a.) Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. -- {Pride"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pride"ful-ness}, n.
Prideful (a.) Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: {disdainful}, {haughty}, {imperious}, {lordly}, {overbearing}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious}, {swaggering}].
Prideful (a.) Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: {exultant}, {exulting}, {jubilant}, {prideful}, {rejoicing}, {triumphal}, {triumphant}].
Prideless (a.) Without pride. -- Chaucer.
Pridian (a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] -- Thackeray.
Pridingly (adv.) Proudly. [Obs.]
Prie (n.) (Bot.) The plant privet. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Prie (v. i.) To pry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pried () imp. & p. p. of Pry.
Priedieu (n.) A kneeling desk for prayers.
Prief (n.) Proof. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Lydgate.
Prier (n.) One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.
So pragmatical a prier he is into divine secrets. -- Fuller.
Compare: Presbyter
Presbyter (n.) [See {Priest}] An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under {Bishop}, n., 1.
Presbyter (n.) (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also {priest}.
I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. -- Hooker.
New presbyter is but old priest writ large. -- Milton.
Presbyter (n.) (Presbyterian Ch.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.
Presbyter (n.) A Presbyterian. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Priest (n.) (Christian Church) （基督教）牧師；（天主教）神父；神職人員；教士；僧人；祭司 A presbyter elder; a minister; Specifically:
Priest (n.) (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. -- Murdock.
Priest (n.) (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
Priest (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests. "The priests of Dagon." --1 Sam. v. 5.
Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people. -- Acts xiv. 13.
Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. -- Heb. v. 1.
Note: In the New Testament presbyters are not called priests; but Christ is designated as a priest, and as a high priest, and all Christians are designated priests.
Priest (v. t.) 任命……為祭司；使成為神職人員（牧師，神父等） To ordain as priest.
Priest (n.) A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders.
Priest (n.) A person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion [syn: {priest}, {non-Christian priest}].
Priest (n.) The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices.
At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved on the head of the family, as in the cases of Noah (Gen. 8:20), Abraham (12:7; 13:4), Isaac (26:25), Jacob (31:54), and Job (Job 1:5).
The name first occurs as applied to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18). Under the Levitical arrangements the office of the priesthood was limited to the tribe of Levi, and to only one family of that tribe, the family of Aaron. Certain laws respecting the qualifications of priests are given in Lev. 21:16-23. There are ordinances also regarding the priests' dress (Ex. 28:40-43) and the manner of their consecration to the office (29:1-37).
Their duties were manifold (Ex. 27:20, 21; 29:38-44; Lev. 6:12; 10:11; 24:8; Num. 10:1-10; Deut. 17:8-13; 33:10; Mal. 2:7). They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law.
In the time of David the priests were divided into twenty-four courses or classes (1 Chr. 24:7-18). This number was retained after the Captivity (Ezra 2:36-39; Neh. 7:39-42).
"The priests were not distributed over the country, but lived together in certain cities [forty-eight in number, of which six were cities of refuge, q.v.], which had been assigned to their use. From thence they went up by turns to minister in the temple at Jerusalem. Thus the religious instruction of the people in the country generally was left to the heads of families, until the establishment of synagogues, an event which did not take place till the return from the Captivity, and which was the main source of the freedom from idolatry that became as marked a feature of the Jewish people thenceforward as its practice had been hitherto their great national sin."
The whole priestly system of the Jews was typical. It was a shadow of which the body is Christ. The priests all prefigured the great Priest who offered "one sacrifice for sins" "once for all" (Heb. 10:10, 12). There is now no human priesthood. (See Epistle to the Hebrews throughout.) The term "priest" is indeed applied to believers (1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6), but in these cases it implies no sacerdotal functions. All true believers are now "kings and priests unto God." As priests they have free access into the holiest of all, and offer up the sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, and the sacrifices of grateful service from day to day.
Priestcap (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also {swallowtail}.
Swallowtail (n.) (Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See {Dovetail}.
Swallowtail (n.) (Bot.) A species of willow.
Swallowtail (n.) (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also {priestcap}.
Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. -- Thackeray.
Swallowtail (n.) An arrow. --Sir W. Scott.
Swallowtail (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
Note: The black swallowtail, or asterias (see {Papilio}), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see {Turnus}), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under {Zebra}) are common American species. See also {Troilus}.
Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others.
It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. -- Macaulay.
Priestcraft (n.) A derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs
Priestcraft (n.) The skills involved in the work of a priest.
Priestery (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. [R.] -- Milton.
Priestess (n.) 尼姑；女祭司；女神職人員 A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. -- Abp. Potter.
Priestess (n.) A woman priest.
Priesthood (n.) [TMRC; Obs.] The select group of system managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch computer system. On these computers, a user never had direct access to a computer, but had to submit his/her data and programs to a priest for execution. Results were returned days or even weeks later.
Priesthood (n.) [U] [the S] 教士（或祭司等的）職位（或身分）；（教會的）全體教士（或牧師、僧侶等）[G] The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Priesthood (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
Priesthood (n.) The body of ordained religious practitioners.
Priesting (n.) The office of a priest.
Priestism (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
Priestless (a.) Without a priest.
Priestlike (a.) Priestly.
Priestliness (n.) The quality or state of being priestly.
Priestly (a.) 僧侶的；祭司的；教士的；牧師的；似教士的 Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.