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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..

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.

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 mark with a prime mark.

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

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

Pride :: Pride (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Prime :: Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

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

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

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

English :: English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type..

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