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Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A printing establishment.

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister..

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

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

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 (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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Primy :: Primy (a.) Being in its prime.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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