Meanings (ES + gloss)
curiosear • husmear • sapear
To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
And choice of studious friends had he / Of Bolton's dear fraternity: / […] / [I]n their cells with him did pry / For other lore,—through strong desire / Searching the earth with ch…
[W]omen haue eagles eyes, / To prie euen to the heart, and why not you?
curiosear • entremeter • fisgar • fisgonear • hurgar • vidajenear • vinear
To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abrir apalacando • abrir palanqueando • hacer palanca
To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
"Oh! he's going home to Down East," said another; "so far eastward, you know, shippy, that they have to pry up the sun with a handspike."