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

Prime :: Prime (n.) That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.

Primerole :: Primerole (n.) See Primrose.

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

Long Primer :: Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois..

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

Primero :: Primero (n.) A game at cards, now unknown..

Deflour :: Deflour (v. t.) To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.

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..

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..

Motor :: Motor (n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work..

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..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To trim or prune, as trees..

Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..

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

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..

Abecedary :: Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

Absey-book :: Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.

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..

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

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