prize

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To move or force with a lever; pry.
• noun Chiefly Southern US Something used as a lever or for prying.
• noun Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition.
• noun Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession.
• adjective Offered or given as a prize.
• adjective Given a prize, or likely to win a prize.
• adjective Worthy of a prize; first-class.
• transitive verb To value highly; esteem or treasure. synonym: appreciate.
• transitive verb To estimate the worth of; evaluate.
• noun Something seized by force or taken as booty, especially an enemy ship and its cargo captured at sea during wartime.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To risk or venture.
• To make a prize of; capture; seize.
• To set or estimate the value of; rate.
• To value highly; regard as of great worth; esteem.
• To favor or ease (an affected limb), as a horse.
• Synonyms To appraise.
• Value, Esteem, etc. See appreciate.
• noun The hold of a lever; purchase.
• noun A lever.
• To force or press, especially force open by means of a lever, as a door, etc.
• noun In tobacco manufacturing: A press operated by a lever. Compare prize-beam.
• noun The pressure exerted by a lever or press.
• noun A taking or capture, as of the property of an enemy in war.
• noun In hunting, the note of the horn blown at the capture or death of the game.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun That which is obtained or offered as the reward of exertion or contest: as, a prize for Latin verses.
• noun That which is won in a lottery, or in any similar way.
• noun A possession or acquisition which is prized; any gain or advantage; privilege.
• noun A contest for a reward; a competition.
• Worthy of a prize; that has gained a prize.
• Given or awarded as a prize: as, a prize cup.
• noun Estimation; valuation; appraisement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
• noun That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
• noun (Law) 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.
• noun 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.
• noun That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
• noun Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
• noun obsolete A contest for a reward; competition.
• noun A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
• noun a court having jurisdiction of all captures made in war on the high seas.
• noun an exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists, for a stake or wager.
• noun one who fights publicly for a reward; -- applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist.
• noun fighting, especially boxing, in public for a reward or wager.
• noun an officer put in charge or command of a captured vessel.
• noun a medal given as a prize.
• noun a dividend from the proceeds of a captured vessel, etc., paid to the captors.
• noun the ring or inclosure for a prize fight; the system and practice of prize fighting.