Emily Dickinson Lexicon

price (-s), n. [ME < OFr < late L. precium (pretium), price, value, wages, reward.] (webplay: deserves, hands, house, market, paid, pawn, praise, redemption, sold, worth).

1. Cost; amount; sum of money or goods required to purchase.
2. Requirement; demand; stipulation; prerequisite; precondition of a contract; obligatory sum or thing given in exchange for another thing.
3. Sacrifice; payment; loss; act of giving up something of value in exchange for something else.
4. Value; worth.
5. [Fig.] precious commodity; valuable asset; invaluable possession.
6. [Fig.] commerce; trade; business; selling out; greedy act of taking payment for invaluable goods or gifts.