PRIMER
\pɹˈa͡ɪmə], \pɹˈaɪmə], \p_ɹ_ˈaɪ_m_ə]\
Definitions of PRIMER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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One who, or that which, primes
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an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
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First; original; primary.
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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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A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A small book from which children learn to read; a textbook containing the first principles of any subject.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A first book: a work of elementary religious instruction: a first reading-book: an elementary introduction to any subject.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An elementary reading-book.
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Either of two sizes of type, known as great primer (18-point) and long primer (10-point).
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One who or that which primes anything, as a gun.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A small prayer-book for church service ;--the office of the Virgin Mary ;-a small elementary book for teaching children to read ;-a kind of type of which there are two species-one called long-primer, the other called great-primer, larger than pica, and the largest type used in printing books.
