prize 
ward of exertion or contest: as, a prize for Latin 
verses. 
Ill never wrestle for the prize more. 
Static., As yon Like It, I. 1. 168. 
At every shot the prize he got, 
For he was both sure and dead. 
KMn Hood and Uu Golden Arrow (Child's Ballads, V. 386). 
You love 
The metaphysics ! read and earn our prize, 
A golden brooch. Tmnyian, Princess, 111. 
6. That which is won in a lottery, or in any 
similar way. 
The word lottery . . . may be applied to any process of 
determining prizes by lot. Encyc. Brit., XV. 11. 
7. A possession or acquisition which is prized; 
any gain or advantage; privilege. 
It Is war's prize to take all vantages. 
Skat., 3 Hen. VI., 1. 4. 59. 
The lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, 
In every place is sought, but sought in vain ; 
With such a prize no mortal must be blest. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 111. 
8t. A contest for a reward ; a competition. 
Like one of two contending in a prize. 
Shale., M. of V., Hi. 2. 142. 
And now, as It were, a Prize began to be played between 
the two Swords, the Spiritual and the Temporal. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 73. 
Maritime prize, a prize taken by capture ou the high 
seas. To play prizes t, to light publicly for a prize ; 
hence, figuratively, to contend only for show. 
He is my brother th&t plays the prizes. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
By their endless disputes and wranglings about words 
and terms of art, they [the philosophers] made the people 
suspect they did but play prizes before them. 
StillinffJUet, Sermons, II. ill. 
II. a. 1. Worthy of a prize ; that has gained 
a prize. 
A lord of fat prize oxen and of sheep. 
Tennyson, Princess, Conclusion. 
2. Given or awarded as a prize: as, a prize 
cup. 
prize 1 (priz), r. t.; pret. and pp. prized, ppr. 
prizing. [< prize*-, .] If. To risk or venture. 
Davies. 
Thou 'rt worthy of the title of a squire, 
That durst, for proof of thy affection, 
And for thy mistress' favour, prize thy blood. 
Qreene, Friar liacon, p. 175. 
2. To make a prize of; capture; seize. 
In the British House of Commons It was explained that 
the David J. Adams was prized for concealing her name 
and her sailing-port. The American, XII. 67. 
prize'-' (priz), f. t. ; pret. and pp. prized, ppr. 
prizing. [< ME. pryxen, < OF. (and F.) priscr, 
set a price or value on, esteem, value, < prix, 
price, < I*, pretiutn, price, value: see^rice. Cf. 
praise, appraise, apprize'*. ] 1. To set or esti- 
mate the value of; rate. 
Having so swift and excellent a wit 
As she is prized to have. 
Shalt., Much Ado, ill. 1. 90. 
2. To value highly; regard as of great worth; 
esteem. 
Whoe'er excels In what we prize 
Appears a hero in our eyes. 
Sw\ft, Cadenus and Vanessa, 1. 733. 
Gold is called gold, and dross called dross, I' the Book; 
Gold you let He, and dross pick up and prize! 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 2f>4. 
3. To favor or ease (an affected limb), as a 
horse. Halliwell. [Prov. Eug.] = gyn. 1. To ap- 
praise. 2. Valve, Esteem, etc. See appreciate. 
prize' 2 t (priz), n. [< prize"*, r. Cf. price, .] 
Estimation; valuation; appraisement. 
Ceesar 's no merchant, to make prizr with you 
Of things that merchants sold. 
Shot., A. and C., v. 2. 183. 
prize 3 (priz), n. [Also prise; < F. prise, a hold, 
grasp, purchase: see prize 1 .] 1. The hold of a 
lever; purchase. 2. A lever. BalliweV. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
prize 3 (priz), r. /. ; pret. and pp. prized, ppr. 
prizing. [Also prise; < prized, n. Hence, by 
confusion, pry?. ] To force or press, especially 
force open by means of a lever, as a door, etc. 
Taking a marling-splke hitch over a marling-splke, and 
with the point prizing It against the rope until the service 
Is taut. Luce, Seamanship, p. 48. 
When I gently prised up the anther-case at Its base or 
on one side, the pollinlum was ejected. 
Darwin, fertll. of Orchids by Insect*, p. 216. 
prizeable, . See prizable. 
prize-bolt (priz'bolt), . A projection ou a gun- 
carriage for a handspike to hold by in raising 
tin- breech. [Eng.] 
prize-Klourt (priz'kort), n. A court whose func- 
lion it is to adjudicate on captures made at sea. 
prize-fight (priz'fit), n. A pugilistic encounter 
or boxing-match for a prize or wager. 
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prize-fighter (priz'fi'ter), n. One who fights 
another with his fists for a wager or reward ; 
a professional pugjlist or boxer. 
prize-fighting (priz'fi'ting), H. Fighting, es- 
pecially boxing, in public for a reward or stake. 
It prevails in Great Britain, the United States, and In the 
British possessions; in most of its forms and in most lo- 
calities it Is illegal. Prize-fighting is conducted generally 
under one of two codes of rules the London prize-ring 
rules and the Marquis of Queensberry rules. The fight- 
ing is either with bare knuckles or with light gloves. 
prizelesst (priz'les), a. [< prize% + -tesg. Cf. 
priceless.'] Inestimable; priceless. 
Oh, mediocrity, 
Thou prizfless jewel only mean men have, 
But cannot value. 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, ill. 1. 
prize-list (priz'list), . 1. A detailed list of 
the winners in any competition for prizes, as 
a school examination or a flower-snow. 2. 
Naut., a return of all the persons on board en- 
titled to receive prize-money at the time a cap- 
ture is made. 
prizeman (priz'man), n. ; pi. prizemen (-men). 
[< prize 1 + man.']" The winner of a prize. 
prize-master (priz'mas'ter), n. A person put 
in command of a ship that has been made a 
prize. 
prize-money (priz'mun'i), n. Money paid to 
the captors of a ship or place where booty has 
been obtained, in certain proportions accord- 
ing to rank, the money divided being realized 
from the sale of the prize or booty. 
prizer (pri'zer), . [Formerly also priser; < 
prize 2 , p., + -er 1 .] 1. One who estimates or 
determines the value of a thing ; an appraiser. 
But value dwells not in particular will ; 
It holds his estimate and dignity 
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself 
As in the prizer. ShaJc., T. and C., II. 2. 6. 
2. One who competes for a prize, as a prize- 
fighter, a wrestler, etc. 
Why would you be so fond to overcome 
The bonny priser of the humorous duke? 
Shale., As you Like it, II. 3. 8. 
Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer? 
B. Jonson, Cynthia s Revels, v. 2. 
As if a cloud enveloped him while fought 
Under its shade grim prizers, thought with thought 
At dead-lock. Browning, Bordello. 
prize-ring (priz'ring), . A ring or inclosed 
place for prize-fighting; also, sometimes, the 
practice itself. The ring has now become an urea eight 
yards square, Inclosed by poles and ropes. It probably de- 
rived its name from the fact that the combatants originally 
fought in a ring formed by the onlookers. 
It was lately remarked . . . that we take our point of 
honour from the prize-ring; but we do worse we take 
our point of honour from beasts. 
U . Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 1H8. 
p. r. n. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase 
pro re nnta, as occasion may require. 
pro (pro). [L. pro, before, in front of ; for, etc. : 
see pro-.] A Latin preposition occurring in sev- 
eral phrases used in English Pro and con., for 
Latin (New Latin) pro et ton., abbreviation of pro el contra, 
for and against; hence, as a quasi-noun, in plural pros and 
eons, the arguments or reasons for and against a propo- 
sition or opinion ; and (rarely) as a verb, to weigh or con- 
sider Impartially. 
Grand and famous scholars often 
Have argu'd pro anil con, and left it doubtful. 
Ford, Fancies, ill. 3. 
A man in soliloquy reasons with himself, and pro's and 
ron's, and weighs all his designs. 
Conyrene, Double Dealer, Ep. Ded. 
My father's resolution of putting me into breeches . . . 
had . . . been pro'd and con'd, and judicially talked over 
betwixt him aim my mother, about a month before. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vi. Hi. 
They do not decide large questions by casting up two 
columns of pros and eons, and striking a balance. 
Nat. Rev. 
pro-. [1. F. Sp. PR. It. pro-, < L. pro- (pro- or 
pro-), prefix, pro, adv. and prep., before, in front 
of, in favor of, for the benefit of, in place of, 
for, in proportion, in conformity with, etc., = 
Or. vp6, before, for, etc., n-po- prefix, = Skt.prn, 
before; cf. L. por-, po-, collateral forms; Gr. 
irpoy, before, forth, from, etc. (see prog-) ; akin 
to E. /or-i, fore-i, q. v. 2. F., etc., pro-, < L. 
/</"-, < Or. irpo- prefix, before, etc., like the cog- 
nate L. pro-: see above.] A prefix of Latin or 
Greek origin, meaning 'before, 'in front,' 'fore,' 
'forth,' 'forward.' In some words, as procon- 
>///, proprietor, pronoun, etc., it is properly the 
preposition (L. pro, for, instead of). 
proa (pro'ft), n. [Also;>r, prnhu, and formerly 
proe, prow, also nraic (as Malay); < Malay prdu, 
a proa (a general term for all vessels between n 
canoe and a square-rigged vessel).] A kind of 
Malay vessel remarkable for swiftness, former- 
proarthrous 
ly much used by pirates in the Eastern Archi- 
pelago. Proas are found chiefly within the region of the 
trade-winds, to which by their construction they are pe- 
culiarly adapted ; for, being formed with stem and stern 
equally sharp, they never require to be turned round In 
order to change their course, but sail equally well in either 
Proa, with Outrigger. 
direction. The lee side is flat and in a straight line from 
stem to stern, and acts as a lee-board or center-board ; but 
the weather side is rounded as in other vessels. This 
shape, with their small breadth, would render them very 
liable to heel over, were it not for the outrigger, which Is 
used on either side or on both. The proa is fastened toge- 
ther with coir yarns, is extremely fight, and carries an 
enormous triangular sail. Also called flying proa. 
They (the Dutch] have Proes of a particular neatness 
and curiosity. We call them Half-moon Proes. for they 
tuni up so much at each end from the water that they 
much resemble a Half-moon with the Horns upwards. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. 1. 5. 
I spied, where she pointed, the reedy booms and buoyant 
out-riggers of freebooting pnxw lurking In cunning coves. 
J. W. Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi, p. 29. 
proacht (proch), v. i. [Early mod. E. proch; 
< OF. procliier, come near: see approach.] To 
approach. 
Ffriday, the v Day of ffebruarii, proched nyc the Cyte of 
Corfew. Torldngton, Diarle of Eng. Travell, p. 61. 
proal(pro'al),rt. [< Gr. irp6, before, + -al.~\ Di- 
rected or moved forward, as the lower jaw in 
the act of chewing: as, the ptoal mode of mas- 
tication, in which the food is acted on as the 
lower jaw pushes forward: opposed to palinal. 
See proptilinal. E. D. Cope. 
pro-amnion (pro-am'ni-on), n. [< Or. rpo, be- 
fore, + E. antuitm."} The primitive amnion of 
some animals, succeeded by the definitive am- 
uion in a later stage of the embryo. 
pro-amniotic (pro-am-ni-ot'ik), a. Of or per- 
taining to the pro-amnion; characterized by or 
provided with a pro-amuion. 
Long after the true amnion has been quite completed 
the head gradually emerges from this pro-amnintic pit. 
Micros. Set., S. S., XXX. ill. 290. 
proanaphoral (pro-an-af'o-ral), n. [< Gr. nyxi, 
before, + ava^pa, anaphora :" see anaphora, 3.] 
Ecclex., in liturgies, preceding the anaphora 
(which see): applied to so much of the eucha- 
ristic office as precedes the Rursum Corda. 
In every Liturgical family there is one Liturgy (or at 
most two) which supplies the former or proanaphoral 
portion to all the others. 
J. M. Xeale, Eastern Church, I. 319. 
pro and con. See pro. 
proangiosperm (pro-an'ji-o-sperm), n. [< Gr. 
trp6, before, + E. angiospernt.] An archaic or 
ancestral angiosperm; the ancestral form or 
forms from which the modern angiosperms are 
supposed to have been developed. They may be 
known only In the fossil state, or may be manifested by 
rudiments of once functional organs or parts in living 
angiosperms. 
Tile ancestral pro-anffiospertits are supposed to have 
borne leaves such as are found diminished or marked in 
so many of their existing descendants. 
Xntvre, XXXIII. S8U. 
proangiospermic (pro-an'ji-o-sper'mik), a. [< 
proangiosperm + -;V.] In hot., pertaining to or 
resembling a proangiosperm. 
Plants in their pro-angiospmnic stage. 
Sulme, XXXIII. S8B. 
Proarthri (pro-iir'thri), . pi. [NL., < Gr. irpo, 
before, + a/iff/m; joint.] One of four subor- 
ders of existing .sv//i, or sharks, represented 
only by the Hetermlonli<lte, having the palato- 
i|iiadrato apparatus m-ticulated by an exten- 
sive surface with the preorbital region of the 
skull: correlated with Ojiix'/iintliii. .lii/n-llni, 
and .ft/tin*. T. Hill. 
prqarthrous (pro-iir'thrus), a. In tenth., per- 
taining to the I'riMirlhi'i. or having their char- 
itcllTS. 
