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In obsolete terms the difference between price and grice

is that price is to set a price on; to value; to prize while grice is a gree; a step.

As nouns the difference between price and grice

is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while grice is a pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.

As verbs the difference between price and grice

is that price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on while grice is to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.

As a proper noun Price

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As a phrase PRICE

is protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.

price

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cost required to gain possession of something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We can afford no more at such a price .
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
  • The cost of an action or deed.
  • Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
    • Her price is far above rubies.
  • * Keble
    • new treasures still, of countless price

    Derived terms

    * list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset price

    Verb

    (pric)
  • To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
  • (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
  • (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  • (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
    • to price eggs

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    grice

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
  • *1728 , Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others , publ. Mr. Baskett and Company, pg.146:
  • *:Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice , capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
  • *1789 , William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105:
  • *:Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice .
  • *2006 , "Extinct island pig spotted again," BBC News , 17 November 2006, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm]:
  • *:A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (gric)
  • (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
  • *{{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 29 March 1999 , first = Tony , last = Polson , title = Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel? , newsgroup = uk.railway , url = http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/msg/226e540c55c506ac , passage = Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost. }}
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , year=2005 , Month=August , volume=151 , issue=1252 , page=55 , magazine=The Railway Magazine , publisher=IPC Business Press citation , passage=We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...] }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2010 , author=Adam Jacot de Boinod , title=I Never Knew There Was a Word For It , chapter=Gricer's Daughter citation , isbn=9780141028392 , page= , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ItYq7wYG634C&pg=PT518&dq=gricing&hl=en , passage=Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders. }}
    Related terms
    * gricer

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gree; a step.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913) ----