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

Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church..

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..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge..

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.

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

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

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

Mazarine :: Mazarine (a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661..

Prime :: Prime (n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection..

Passee :: Passee (a.) Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle..

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

Depriment :: Depriment (a.) Serving to depress.

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

Pride :: Pride (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life..

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

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

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

Primevous :: Primevous (a.) Primeval.

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