The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . word lottery . . may be applied to anj; process ofdetermining ^mies by lot. Encyc. Brit., XV. 11. 7. A possession or acquisition which is prized;any gain or advantage; privilege. It is wars prize to take all vantages. Shale., S Hen. VI., i. 4. lock, obtaind with guilt, and kept with pain,In every place is sought, but sought in vain ;With such a jmze no mortal must be blest. Pope, E. o£ the L., v. 111. 8t. A contest for a reward; a competition. Like one
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . word lottery . . may be applied to anj; process ofdetermining ^mies by lot. Encyc. Brit., XV. 11. 7. A possession or acquisition which is prized;any gain or advantage; privilege. It is wars prize to take all vantages. Shale., S Hen. VI., i. 4. lock, obtaind with guilt, and kept with pain,In every place is sought, but sought in vain ;With such a jmze no mortal must be blest. Pope, E. o£ the L., v. 111. 8t. A contest for a reward; a competition. Like one of two contending in a prize. .Shak., II. of v., iii. 2. now, as it were, a Prize began to be played betweenthe two Swords, the Spiritual and the Temporal. Baker, Chronicles, p. 73. proarthrous ly TDueh used by pirates in the Eastern Archi-pelago. Proas are found chiefly within the region of thetrade-winds, to which by their construction they are pe-culiarly adapted; for, being formed with stem and sternequally sharp, they never require to be turned round inorder to change their course, but sail equally well in either. _ _ ^ prize. Maritime prize, a prize taken by capture on thehigh prize-mOney (priz^mun!), n. Money paid play prizest, to fight publicly for a prize ; the captors of a ship or place where booty nashence, tlguratively, to contend only for show. been obtained, in certain proportions accord- He is my brother that plays the prizes. ing to rank, the money divided being realized B. Jonson, Cynthias Revels, v. 2. fj.^^^ ^^le sale of the prize or their endless disputes and wranglings about words p^xzer (prizer), n. [Formerly also jnincr; <and terms of art, they [the phUosophersl made the people »^,^-,^,2 r -(- .(.,-l 1 1 One who estimates orsuspect they did ^-^ P-y l^^.^^^^^fji^^^^^^ „. ,„. it^ermines the value of a thing; an appraiser. II, a. 1. Worthy of a prize; that has gaineda prize. A lord of fat prize oxen and of sheep. Tennyso
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