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Show PuR P Ri P to be feized; food gotten by violence; | 4. Reward ; thing purchafed by merit Sometimes virtue ftarves, while vice is fed ravine; wealth gotten by violence ‘W at then ? is the reward of virtue bread plunder That, vice may merit; 'tis the price of toi The knave deferves it, when he tills the foil, Pope A garrifon fupported itfelf, by the prey it too from the neighbourhood of. Ayletbury. Clarendon The whole included race his purpos'd prey. Milz She fees herfelf the monfter's prey And feels her heart and intrails torn away. Dryden Pindar, that eagle, mounts the fkies ‘While virtue leads the noble way Too like a vulture Boileau flies Where fordid int'reft {hews the prey Prier Who ftung by glory, rave, and bound away Zo Prick 7o PRICK. @. 2. [ppician, Saxon. 1. To pierce with a fmall punéture And to thofe thorns that in her bofom lodge To prick and fing her Shakefpeare's Hamlet There fhall be no more a pricking brier unt the houfe of Ifrael, nor any grieving thorn Hog in floth, fox in ftealth, lion in prey. Shak 3. Animal of prey, is a lives on other animals anima tha There are men of prey, as well as beafts an birds of prey, that live upon, and delight in blood Exzchiel, xxviii. 24 If fhe pricked her finger, Jack laid the pin i the way Arbuthnot's Fobn Bull z. T point L' Effrange Do PrREY. @. a. [predor, Latin. 1. To feed by violence: with on befor A lionef Lay couching head on ground, with cat-like watch ‘When that the fleeping man thould ftir: for 'ti The royal difpofition of that beaf To prey on nothing that doth feem as dead. Shak icout And pricks up his predeftinating ears Dryden The fiery courfer, when he hears from fa The fprightly trumpets and the fhouts of war Pricks up his ears Dryden's Virgil A greyhound hath pricked ears, but thofe of hound hang down; for that the former hunts wit his ears, the latter only with his nofe Greaw The tuneful noife the fprightly courfer hears Paws the green turf, and pricks his trembling ears Taught wolves to prey, and ftormy feas to fwell May Their impious folly dar'd to pre 2 3 To plunder to rob Pope with on They pray continually unto their faint the commonwealth, or rather not pray to her, but pre on her: for they ride up and down on her, an make her their boots Shake[peare To corrode ; to wafte Gay Keep clofe to ears, and thofe let affes prick *Tis nothing, nothing ; if they bite and kick. Pope 3. To fix by the point I caufed the edges of two knives to be groun truly ftrait, and pricking their points into a board fo that their edges might look towards one another, and meeting near their points, contain a reétilinear angle, I faftened their handles together wit pitch, to make this angle invariable Neawton with oz Language is too faint to tho His rage of love ; it preys upon his life He pines, he fickens, he defpairs, he dies. Addifon Pre‘vyer #. / devourer Pri'arism [from prey. Robber plunderer n. f priapifme, Fr [priapifimus Latin A preternatural tenfion Luft caufeth a flagrancy in the eyes and priapifm 4. To hang on a point The cooks flice it into little gobbets, prick it o a prong of iron, and hang itin a furnace. Sandys 5+ To nominate by a pun&ure or mark. Thofe many then fhall die, their names ar prickt Shakefp Some who are pricked for fheriffs, and are fit fet out of the bill Bacon acon The perfon every night has a priapifm in hi fleep Floyer Price. = f. [prix, French; pretium Lann, 1. Equivalent paid for any thing T wil bu it of thec at a price neithe 6. To fpur cite I offer buint-offerings unto the Lord my God of that which coft me nothing. 2 Samuel, xxiv. 24 From that which bath its price in compofition 2 And wifely make that kind of food thy choice To which neceflicy confines thy price Dryden Value lence eftimation f{uppofe 3. Rate at which zny thing is fol Well Suppofing the quantity of wheat, in refpe t its vent, be the fame, that makes the change i the price of wheat Loghe to impel to in Shakefpeare 'tis no matter, honour pricks me on But how if honour prick me off whe I come on Shakefpeare's Henry IV His high courage prick'd him forth to wed. Pope 7- 'To pain ; to pierce with remorfe Whe hearts excel We ftand in fome jealoufy, lefk by thus overvaluing their fermons; they make the price and eftimation of feripture, otherwife notified, to fall. Hooker Sugar hath put down the ufe of honey, inafmuch as we have loft thofe preparations of hone which the ancients had, when it was more i price Bacon to goad When I call to mind your gracious favours My duty pricks me on to utter that Which elfe no worldly good fhould draw from me wi if you take away any thing, or any part do fail, al is difgrace Bacon If forcune has a niggard been to thee Devote thyfelf to thrift, notluxury Dryden His rough creft he rears Put your torches ou ‘The wolses have prey'd, and look the gentle da Dapples the drowly eaft Shakefpeare Jove venom firft infus'd in ferpents fell On herds devoted to the god of day form or erett with an acuminate The poets make fame a monfter; they fay look how many feathers fhe hath, fo many eye fhe hath underneath, fo many tongues, fo man voices, fhe pricks up fo many ears Bacon A hunted panther cafts abou Her glaring eyes, and pricks her li''ning ears t the objedt do they heard this, they were pricked in thei an faid, men and brcthren wha 8. To make acid fhall w Acts, il 37 They their late attacks decline 9 T 1 2 And turn as eager as prick'd wine 'Fo mar Prick To dref To com to be th Hudilras a tune @. m [prijken, Dutch. one's felf for thow upon the fpur. This feem fenfe in Sgenfer After that varlet's flight, it was not long Ere on the plain faft pricking Guyon fpie One in bright arms embaitled full rong. Spenfer h horfemen began ¢, h upon the Englifh army, nd to COme pr my ickiy them, fometimes within length o th{irrw"gfu Before each v Prick forth th In thi A lufty knigh Hflngrl . airy knights. Miltgy, king Arthur's rejo was pricking o'er %he' plain, b,fl.u Prick. n /. [ppicca, Saxon. 1. A fharp flender inftrument by whxchha pundture is made Leave her to heav'n Young depredation To pay for Some fhall pay the price of others guilt And he the man that made fans foy to fall Shall with his own blood price that he hath fpilt Spenfer The world their field, and human-kind their prey 2. Ravage w.a They had not ridden far, w One pricking towards t ho:m'withe ?):f'tlyey},m,m o The Scotti ument any Vi The country gives me proo Of_bed'lam beggars, who, wit roaring vojces St.rl e in their num'd and mortifi d bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, fprig of rofemayy Ttis hard for thee to kick againft thfl;a?:'z‘,m If the Englith would not in peace ;fife‘:nm by the law, nor could in war root them o t'by th fword, muft they not be prickins their e es, an thorns in their fides ‘ If God would have had men live like wiig beaft he would have armed them with horns, tufks, t lons, or pricks Bramball 2, A thorn in the mind; a teafing an tormenting thought; remorfe of cop fcience My confcience firft receiv'd a tendernefs Scruple, and prick, on certain fpeeches utter' By th' bifhop of Bayon. Shakefpeare's Henry VIIL 3. A fpot or mark at which archers aim For long fhooting, their fhaft was a cloth yad their pricks twenty-four fcore; for ftrength, the would pierce any ordipary armour 4. A point Carew a fixed place Now gins this goodly frame of temperanc Faitly to rife, and her adorned hea To prick of higheft praife forth to advance, Spef Phaeton hath tumbled from his car o And made an evening at the noon-tide prick, Shak 5. A punéture No aips were difcovered in the place of her death only two fmall infenfible pricks were found in he arm Brow 6. The print of a hare in the ground Pr1"ckER. a./. [from prick. I. A fharp-pointed inftrument Pricker is vulgarly called an awl 5 yet, for joines ufe, it hath moft commonly a fquare blade Moxon's Mechanical Exercifes 2. A light horfeman Not in ufe They had horfemen, prickers as they are termed fitte t mak excurfion and to chace; than t fuftain any ftrong charge Pri‘cker . / [from prick in his fecond year Hayward A buc U T've call'd the deer, the princefs kill'd, a pricker Shaks[peares The buck is called the firft year a fawn, the fecond year a pricket Mansweed PR1i‘CKLE, u. /. [from'pricé.] Small fhar point, like that of a brier The prickles of trees are a kind of excrefce;g:'-' the plants that have prickles, are black and white thofe have it in the boughj the plants that h:x prickles in the leaf, are holly and juniper; ;Ct g fl;:,s alfo have a fmall venomous prickle An herb growing in the water, called an;_J :fl is full of prickles : this putteth forth_anothcr hm herb out of the leaf, imputed to moifture Kaé;m between the prickles A fox Catlcl;ing hold of a bramble to,hrea&nhi fall, the prickles ran into his feet L Efiz g The man who laugh'd but once to fee_z'l‘ 21854 Mumbling to make the crofs-grain d thiftles D Might laugh again, to fee a jury cha The prickles of unpalatable law The flower's divine, wh‘e;‘re‘cr &5:‘;"‘_':'.. s s and affume PaycRunEs the priekles Negle ( |