Price
Price , noun
[Old English pris, Old French pris, French prix, Latin pretium; compare Greek {not transcribed} I sell {not transcribed} to buy, Sanskrit pa{not transcribed} to buy, OI. renim I sell. Compare 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.
We can afford no more at such a price.
2.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
Her price is far above rubies.
New treasures still, of countless price.
3.
Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
'T is the price of toil,
The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.
Collocations (1)
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.
Price , transitive verb
1.
To pay the price of. [Obsolete]
With thine own blood to price his blood.
2.
To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
3.
To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloquial]