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

Load :: Load (v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

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..

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

A B C :: A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.

Prime :: Prime (a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief..

Prime :: Prime (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

Premier :: Premier (n.) The first minister of state; the prime minister.

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

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To be renewed, or as at first..

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..

Efficient :: Efficient (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.

Primeval :: Primeval (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man..

Advance :: Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods..

Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..

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

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

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

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