Definition of prime

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Prime (a.) To mark with a prime mark.

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Prime :: Prime (a.) The first of the chief guards.
Primeval :: Primeval (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man..
Mazarine :: Mazarine (a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661..
Horse Power :: Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second
Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..
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..
Depriment :: Depriment (a.) Serving to depress.
Primer :: Primer (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
Primevous :: Primevous (a.) Primeval.
Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..
Primero :: Primero (n.) A game at cards, now unknown..
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A print; impression.
Long Primer :: Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois..
Primely :: Primely (adv.) At first; primarily.
Pristine :: Pristine (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor..
English :: English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type..
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..
Efficient :: Efficient (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.
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..
Prime :: Prime (a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
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