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Motor :: Motor (n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work..

Primero :: Primero (n.) A game at cards, now unknown..

Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being first.

Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..

Prime :: Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

Primer :: Primer (n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica..

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

Gastraea :: Gastraea (n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula..

Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A print; impression.

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To mark with a prime mark.

Primer :: Primer (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.

Primer :: Primer (a.) First; original; primary.

Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge..

Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A printing establishment.

Primer :: Primer (n.) One who, or that which, primes.

Primevally :: Primevally (adv.) In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being prime, or excellent..

Abecedary :: Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

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