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

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

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..

Primely :: Primely (adv.) In a prime manner; excellently.

English :: English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type..

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..

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

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

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

Principal :: Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

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

Unessential :: Unessential (a.) Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.

Declination :: Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south..

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler..

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister..

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..

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..

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

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1..

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