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Prime :: Prime (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

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

Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Prime :: Prime (#) Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donn.

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

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

Advance :: Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods..

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

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..

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..

Primer :: Primer (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.

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.

Colorist :: Colorist (n.) One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

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

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

Primeval :: Primeval (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man..

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a..

Prime :: Prime (n.) The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring..

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

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