Definition of prime

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Prime (a.) The first of the chief guards.

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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..
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) The art of printing.
Prime :: Prime (a.) To trim or prune, as trees..
Long Primer :: Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois..
Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being first.
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..
Prime :: Prime (a.) The first of the chief guards.
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.
Deflour :: Deflour (v. t.) To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.
Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..
Pride :: Pride (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life..
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 (#) Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donn.
Primer :: Primer (n.) One who, or that which, primes.
Prime :: Prime (a.) To mark with a prime mark.
Passee :: Passee (a.) Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle..
Primer :: Primer (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
Advance :: Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods..
Absey-book :: Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.
Prime :: Prime (a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a..
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