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Prime :: Prime (a.) To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To trim or prune, as trees..

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the little hours, viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline..

Primacy :: Primacy (a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy..

Primevous :: Primevous (a.) Primeval.

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

Mazarine :: Mazarine (a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661..

Prime :: Prime (a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a..

Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) The art of printing.

Hydraulics :: Hydraulics (n.) That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like..

Prime :: Prime (n.) That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.

Primrose :: Primrose (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles..

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..

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..

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..

Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..

Primer :: Primer (n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction..

Absey-book :: Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.

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

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