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▪ I. pryse, pryce Hunting. arch.
Also 4 priis, 5 prise, 6 prys.
[ME. a. OF. or AF. pris ‘taken’, pa. pple. of prendre to take, or OF. prise ‘taking, capture’, thence formed: cf. prise n.1, prize n.3]
In phrase to blow the pryse, i.e. to blow ‘Taken!’ or ‘Capture!’, to sound a blast on the hunting-horn as a signal that the stag is taken. Also transf.
c1320Sir Tristr. 2749 Tristrem on huntinge rade,..He blewe priis as he can Þre mot oþer mare. c1410Master of Game xxxiv. (1904) 99 Þan shuld..who so is grettest of þe hunters blowe þe pryce at couplyng vp. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. vi. 125 Thenne kynge Arthur blewe the pryse and dyghte the herte. 1513Douglas æneis x. xii. 123 And blew the prys triumphall for his [Orodes'] deth. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lii. 177, I can mew a sparhawke, and I can chase the herte and the wyld bore, and blowe the pryce. 1802Scott Cadyow Castle xvii, Sound, merry huntsmen! sound the pryse!
▪ II. pryse, pryss
obs. ff. price, prise, prize. |