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Primer   /prˈaɪmər/   Listen
Primer

noun
1.
An introductory textbook.
2.
Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.  Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, priming.
3.
The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface.  Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat.


Prime

adjective
1.
First in rank or degree.  Synonym: premier.  "The prime minister"
2.
Used of the first or originating agent.
3.
Of superior grade.  Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select.  "Prime beef" , "Prize carnations" , "Quality paper" , "Select peaches"
4.
Of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers.
5.
Being at the best stage of development.  Synonym: meridian.



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"Primer" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke. The delicate finger of the gypsy moved over the lines of the palm like that of a little school-girl over the pages of a primer. They did not realize how dangerous was that proximity, nor how fatal that touch. Through those two poles of Nature's most powerful battery, the magnetic and mysterious current ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss
... connected with a visit to a school. I was getting proud of my ability to spell small words. A primer-maker had attempted to help the association of letters with objects by placing them in juxtaposition, but through a mistake he led me to my undoing. I knew my letters and I knew some things. I plainly distinguished the letters P-A-N. Against them I was puzzled by a picture of a spoon, and with ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... country education, from the primer to the university, is absolutely free. The state does the whole business and in my state they print the school books, and more than that they give a man a professional education, too, without tuition fees—if he wants to become a lawyer ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White
... he repeated again and again, unhesitatingly; but A he would not, and persisted in declaring that he could not say. He was severely whipped, but still persisted. It now became a contest of wills. He was whipped again and again and again. In the intervals between the whippings the primer was presented to him, and he was told that he would be whipped again if he did not mind his mother and say A. I forget how many times he was whipped; but it was almost too many times to be believed. The fight was a terrible one. At last, in a paroxysm of his crying under the blows, the mother thought ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson
... four periods may we divide Shakespeare's work? (See Dowden's A Primer of Shakespeare, or Stopford Brooke's Primer of ...
— Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English - Based on the Requirements for Admission to College • Gilbert Sykes Blakely


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