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A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.

getable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

Nutritious.

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.

The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.

An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident. [R.] Crabb.

First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary. "Prime forests." Tennyson. She was not the prime cause, but I myself. Milton.

In a prime manner; excellently.

The quality or state of being prime, or excellent.

One who, or that which, primes; specifically, an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other capable for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

A game at cards, now unknown. Shak.

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.]

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.