Definition of primer

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Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..

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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..
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) The art of printing.
Primer :: Primer (n.) One who, or that which, primes.
Primrose :: Primrose (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles..
Primer :: Primer (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
Long Primer :: Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois..
Abecedary :: Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
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..
Primerole :: Primerole (n.) See Primrose.
Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..
Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A printing establishment.
Absey-book :: Absey-book (n.) An A-B-C book; a primer.
Bourgeois :: Bourgeois (n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..
Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..
A B C :: A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.
Primero :: Primero (n.) A game at cards, now unknown..
Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
Primer :: Primer (a.) First; original; primary.
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