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Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To be renewed, or as at first..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Primerole :: Primerole (n.) See Primrose.

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

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

Primer :: Primer (n.) One who, or that which, primes.

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..

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

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..

Declination :: Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south..

Primely :: Primely (adv.) In a prime manner; excellently.

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

Primed :: Primed (imp. & p. p.) of Prim.

Unessential :: Unessential (a.) Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.

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