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

Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..

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

Long Primer :: Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois..

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

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

Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

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

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..

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..

A B C :: A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.

Imprimery :: Imprimery (n.) A print; impression.

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

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

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

Primerole :: Primerole (n.) See Primrose.

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

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..

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

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..

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