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See Primrose. [Obs.] "She was a primerole." Chaucer.

Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.

Primeval. [Obs.]

First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.

First formed or generated; original; primigenial. Bp. Hall.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder. Priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Priming tube, a small pipe, filled with a combustible composition for firing cannon. -- Priming valve (Steam Eng.), a spring safety valve applied to the cylinder of a steam eng…

A woman who bears a child for the first time.

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army. Barrow.

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment. The primitias of your parsonage. Spenser.

Being of the first production; primitive; original. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. "Our primitive great sire." Milton.

Primarily; not derivatively.

The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Quality of being first; primitiveness. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

In a prim or precise manner.

The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

First; chief.