Word Finder - prized

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To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

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To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

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To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.

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To compete in a prizefight.

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Highly valued, cherished.

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His prized possession was his child.

The flesh is prized as venison.

The eggs are highly prized by the natives.

It sometimes attains a height of 6 ft.; its horn, which is much prized by the natives for medicinal purposes,.

At Ilija, south of the town, are warm springs much prized for their medicinal properties.

Genuine examples of his faience have always been highly prized, and numerous imitations were subsequently produced, all stamped with the ideograph Ninsei.

Tenderloin is prized for its tenderness, which also makes it a fairly expensive cut of meat.

A Swiss Army pocket knife is surprisingly versatile and is highly prized.

Since 1884, Breitling has been making precision watches that are highly prized by watch aficionados the world over.

Hampden watches are highly prized and collected by enthusiasts the world over.

These make a great gift as well as being highly prized by collectors.

For instance, there are many Fossil Limited Edition character watches and these are highly prized, both by collectors of Fossil watches, as well as collectors of memorabilia.

A Mickey Mouse pocket watch is often highly prized.

Tag Heuer is a well known luxury watch manufacturer and their watches are much prized by people the world over.

Women used corsets for centuries to cinch their waists and uplift their bosoms, as well as maintain the straight back that was so prized.

A curvy look was still prized in the 1960s, as can be seen on the show Mad Men, where the rounder women are much more desirable than their slimmer sisters.

Cleavage was highly prized in the 18th century, and lingerie was designed to heighten the effect.

It's no wonder vintage Vanity Fair nightgowns are still so prized.

Terry cloth is one of the most common, prized for its easy care and absorbent qualities.

Bamboo is especially prized because it represents unity and compatibility.

Defensive upgrades include a few hundred kinetic energy turrets and a few prized nukes.

Etruscan shoes were prized both in Greece and in Rome.

Under the name godwit two perfectly distinct species of British birds were included, but that which seems to have been especially prized is known to modern ornithologists as the black-tailed godwit, Limosa aegocephala, formerly called, from its loud cry, a yarwhelp,' shrieker or barker, in the districts it inhabited.

Such porcelains, however, lack the velvet-like softness and depth of tone so justly prized in the genuine monochrome, where the glaze itself contains the coloring matter, pte and glaze being tired simultaneously at the same high temperature.

A strange visitor, the frost-fish, never seen at sea, is picked up stranded on sandy beaches in cold weather, and is prized by epicures.

This attitude towards dogma did not mean that it was less prized than during the period of strife.

The breeder bulbs and their offsets may grow on for years producing only self-coloured flowers, but after a time, which is varied and indefinite, some of the progeny "break," that is, produce flowers with the variegation which is so much prized.

These birds, highly prized from the first, reprobated by the moralist, and celebrated by more than one classical poet, in the course of time were brought in great number to Rome, and ministered in various ways to the luxury of the age.

The variety most highly prized has an extremely short snout, eyes which almost wholly project beyond the orbit, no dorsal fin, and a very long threeor four-lobed caudal fin (Telescope-fish).

The wood is highly valued by carriage-builders, upholsterers and turners, on account of its toughness and tenacity, and in Russia it is prized as firewood and a source of charcoal.

Their eggs are prized by the natives, and the flesh of one species, known as ibit or pelubid, is highly esteemed.

Among the scattered jungles in various parts of the province, the mahua tree is prized alike for its edible flowers, its fruits and its timber.

His Commentary on the Epistle to the Philippians (1618, reprinted 1864) is a specimen of his preaching before his college, and of his fiery denunciation of popery and his fearless enunciation of that Calvinism which Oxford in common with all England then prized.

The extensive tracts of unenclosed and often unirnprovable land, which still cover a large area in the Principality, especially in the five counties of Cardigan, Radnor, Brecon, Montgomery and Merioneth, support numerous flocks of the small mountain sheep, the flesh of which supplies the highly prized Welsh mutton.

Here he spent the remaining years of his life in the frugal independence which he prized.

The Scotch fir is a very variable tree, and certain varieties have acquired a higher reputation for the qualities of their timber than others; among those most prized by foresters is the one called the Braemar pine, the remaining fragments of the great wood in the Braemar district being chiefly composed of this kind; it is mainly distinguished by its shorter and more glaucous leaves and ovoid cones with blunt recurved spines, and especially by the early horizontal growth of its ultimately drooping boughs; of all varieties this is the most picturesque.

The beautiful reddish-brown shining cones, roundly ovate in shape, with pyramidal scale apices, have been prized from the ancient days of Rome for their edible nut-like seeds, which are still used as an article of food or dessert.

The wood is very hard and abounds with resin, but on swampy land is of inferior quality and of little value except for fuel, for which the pitch-pine is highly prized; on drier ground the grain is fine from the numerous knots.

Among rearing districts Marennes and La Tremblade are specially celebrated on account of the extensive system of claires or oyster ponds, in which the green oysters so much prized in Paris are produced.

There are also found the black pepper plant (Piper Clusii), a climbing plant abundant in the mountain districts; the grains of paradise or melegueta pepper plant (Amomum Melegueta) and other Amomums whose fruits are prized.

It is much prized by wheelwrights, cabinet-makers, sculptors, &c., on the Continent; while knotted roots are used for inlaying.

It is much prized for bedsteads, writing-desks, shoe-lasts, &c. The wood forms excellent fuel and charcoal, while the ashes are rich in alkaline principles, furnishing a large proportion of the potash exported from Boston and New York.

The alpaca is highly prized for its fine wool, which is a staple export from Bolivia, but the animal is reared with difficulty and the product cannot be largely increased.

Beginning with earthenware which twenty years later was improved into "opaque china," it produced from 1814 to 1823 superior porcelain which was beautifully decorated with landscapes, birds, butterflies and flowers and is much prized by connoisseurs.

The terebinth tree and its resin were well known and highly prized from the earliest times.

For himself he prized above all things the wisdom that is virtue, and in the task of producing it he endured the hardest penury, maintaining that such life was richer in enjoyment than a life of luxury.

His Bunadar-balkr, a Georgic written, like Tusser's Points, with a practical view of raising the state of agriculture, has always been much prized.

Since the 9th century it has been customary for the popes to bless these cakes, and distribute them on the Sunday after Easter among the faithful, by whom they are highly prized as having the power to avert evil.

The house-fed pig was then as now an important object of domestic economy, and its flesh was much prized.

This worn-out septuagenarian, who prized rest above everything, imported into foreign policy the same mania for economy and the same sloth in action.

This water, which is highly prized for its healing qualities, fills the moat and forms a fine lake in the northern quarter of the city.