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Price vs Pruce - What's the difference?

price | pruce |

In obsolete terms the difference between price and pruce

is that price is to set a price on; to value; to prize while pruce is prussian leather.

As nouns the difference between price and pruce

is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while pruce is prussian leather.

As a verb price

is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.

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

    pruce

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Prussian leather
  • * 1700 , John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern: Palamon and Arcite , lines 30–31:
  • Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers use, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce .

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