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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

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..

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

Primevous :: Primevous (a.) Primeval.

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

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

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

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

Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

Primely :: Primely (adv.) At first; primarily.

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

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

Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being prime, or excellent..

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.

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

Paragon :: Paragon (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

Primevally :: Primevally (adv.) In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Primacy :: Primacy (a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy..

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..

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