Definition of prime

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

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Absey-book :: Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.
Primero :: Primero (n.) A game at cards, now unknown..
Prime :: Prime (a.) To mark with a prime mark.
Prime :: Prime (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister..
Primed :: Primed (imp. & p. p.) of Prim.
Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being prime, or excellent..
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.
Incindental :: Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses..
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A printing establishment.
Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the little hours, viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline..
Prime :: Prime (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A print; impression.
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) The art of printing.
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..
Abecedary :: Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
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..
Primely :: Primely (adv.) At first; primarily.
Premier :: Premier (n.) The first minister of state; the prime minister.
Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
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..
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