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- Primer - n. - One who, or that which, primes
- 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.
- Primer - a. - First; original; primary.
- 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.
- Primer - n. - A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
- 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.
- Primero - n. - A game at cards, now unknown.
- Primerole - n. - See Primrose.
- Prime - a. - To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
- Bourgeois - n. - A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
- A B C - - A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.
- Paragon - n. - A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.