prize

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition.
2. n. Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession.
3. adj. Offered or given as a prize: a prize cup.
4. adj. Given a prize, or likely to win a prize: a prize cow.
5. adj. Worthy of a prize; first-class: our prize azaleas.
6. v. To value highly; esteem or treasure. See Synonyms at appreciate.
7. v. To estimate the worth of; evaluate.
8. n. Something seized by force or taken as booty, especially an enemy ship and its cargo captured at sea during wartime.
9. n. The act of seizing; capture.
10. v. To move or force with or as if with a lever; pry.
11. n. Leverage.
12. n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Something used as a lever or for prying.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A taking or capture, as of the property of an enemy in war.
2. n. In hunting, the note of the horn blown at the capture or death of the game.
3. n. That which is taken from an enemy in war; any species of goods or property seized by force as spoil or plunder; that which is taken in combat, particularly a ship with the property taken in it. The law as to prizes is regulated by the general law of nations. Prizes taken in war are condemned (that is, sentence is passed that the thing captured is lawful prize) by the proper judicature in the courts of the captors, called prize-courts.
4. n. In early English law, a seizure or the asserted right of seizure of money or chattels by way of exaction or requisition for t he use of the crown; more specifically, a toll of that nature exacted on merchandise in a commercial town.
5. n. That which is obtained or offered as the reward of exertion or contest: as, a prize for Latin verses.
6. n. That which is won in a lottery, or in any similar way.
7. n. A possession or acquisition which is prized; any gain or advantage; privilege.
8. n. A contest for a reward; a competition.
9. Worthy of a prize; that has gained a prize.
10. Given or awarded as a prize: as, a prize cup.
11. To risk or venture.
12. To make a prize of; capture; seize.
13. To set or estimate the value of; rate.
14. To value highly; regard as of great worth; esteem.
15. To favor or ease (an affected limb), as a horse.
16. Synonyms To appraise.
17. Value, Esteem, etc. See appreciate.
18. n. Estimation; valuation; appraisement.
19. n. The hold of a lever; purchase.
20. n. A lever.
21. To force or press, especially force open by means of a lever, as a door, etc.
22. n. In tobacco manufacturing: A press operated by a lever. Compare prize-beam.
23. n. The pressure exerted by a lever or press.

Wiktionary

1. n. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
2. n. Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
3. n. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
4. n. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
5. n. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
6. n. A contest for a reward; competition.
7. n. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
8. v. To consider something highly valuable.
9. v. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
10. v. To compete in a prizefight.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
2. n. Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
3. n. An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
4. n. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
5. n. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
6. n. A contest for a reward; competition.
7. n. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
8. v. To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
9. v. To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
10. v. To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
11. n. Estimation; valuation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. regard highly; think much of
2. v. hold dear
3. adj. of superior grade
4. v. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
5. n. goods or money obtained illegally
6. n. something given as a token of victory
7. n. something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery