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Prime :: Prime (n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Motor :: Motor (n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work..

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

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

Prime :: Prime (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

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

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.

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..

Load :: Load (v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

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

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..

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

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