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- English Word Prime Definition To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.
- English Word Prime Definition Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
- English Word Primed Definition of Prime
- English Word Primely Definition At first; primarily.
- English Word Primely Definition In a prime manner; excellently.
- English Word Primeness Definition The quality or state of being first.
- English Word Primeness Definition The quality or state of being prime, or excellent.
- English Word Primer Definition One who, or that which, primes
- English Word Primer Definition an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
- English Word Primer Definition First; original; primary.
- English Word Primer Definition Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
- English Word Primer Definition A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
- English Word Primer Definition 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.
- English Word Primero Definition A game at cards, now unknown.
- English Word Primerole Definition See Primrose.
- English Word Primeval Definition Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
- English Word Primevally Definition In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.
- English Word Primevous Definition Primeval.
- English Word Primigenial Definition First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.
- English Word Primigenious Definition Alt. of Primigenous
- English Word Primigenous Definition First formed or generated; original; primigenial.
- English Word Primine Definition The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.
- English Word Priming Definition of Prime
- English Word Priming Definition The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
- English Word Priming Definition The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.
- English Word Priming Definition The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
- English Word Primipara Definition A woman who bears a child for the first time.
- English Word Primiparous Definition Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.
- English Word Primipilar Definition Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.
- English Word Primitia Definition The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.