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Prime :: Prime (a.) To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall..

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

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..

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..

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

Prime :: Prime (n.) The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

Principal :: Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

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

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

Bourgeois :: Bourgeois (n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

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

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

Colorist :: Colorist (n.) One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

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