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Prime :: Prime (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge..

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

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

Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth..

Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being first.

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