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- Prime - # - Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
- Prime - a. - First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
- Prime - a. - First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
- Prime - a. - First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
- Prime - a. - Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- Prime - a. - Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
- Prime - a. - Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
- 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 - n. - The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
- Prime - n. - That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
- Prime - a. - The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
- Prime - a. - The first of the chief guards.
- 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.
- Prime - a. - A prime number. See under Prime, a.
- Prime - a. - An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
- Prime - a. - To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
- Prime - a. - To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
- Prime - a. - To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
- Prime - a. - To trim or prune, as trees.
- Prime - a. - To mark with a prime mark.
- Prime - v. i. - To be renewed, or as at first.
- Prime - v. i. - To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- Prime - v. i. - 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.
- Primed - imp. & p. p. - of Prime
- Primely - adv. - At first; primarily.
- Efficient - n. - An efficient cause; a prime mover.
- Prime - a. - To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
- Declination - n. - The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
- Prime - a. - To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
- Advance - v. - An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
- Hydraulics - n. - That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
- Prime - a. - First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
- Horse power - - A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
- Prime - a. - First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
- Primely - adv. - In a prime manner; excellently.
- Load - v. - The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
- Colorist - n. - One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
- Premier - n. - The first minister of state; the prime minister.
- Prime - a. - Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
- Inch - n. - A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.
- Machine - n. - In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
- Principal - n. - A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
- Deflour - v. t. - To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.
- Mazarine - a. - Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.
- Prime - a. - To mark with a prime mark.
- Primacy - a. - The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.
- Prime - a. - A prime number. See under Prime, a.
- Incindental - a. - Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.
- Unessential - a. - Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.
- 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.
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- G136 αἶνος - 136 αἶνος - ΑἾΝΟΣ - - aînos - ah'-ee-nos - apparently a prime word; properly, a story, but used in the sense of ἔπαινος; praise (of God):--praise. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G744 ἀρχαῖος - 744 ἀρχαῖος - ἈΡΧΑῖΟΣ - - archaîos - ar-khah'-yos - from ἀρχή; original or primeval:--(them of) old (time). - Adjective - greek
- G5230 ὑπέρακμος - 5230 ὑπέρακμος - ὙΠΈΡΑΚΜΟΣ - - hypérakmos - hoop-er'-ak-mos - from ὑπέρ and the base of ἀκμήν; beyond the "acme", i.e. figuratively (of a daughter) past the bloom (prime) of youth:--+ pass the flower of (her) age. - Adjective - greek