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A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

A print; impression.

A begining. [Obs.] "Their springings and imprimings." Sir H. Wotton.

In the first place; first in order.

A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

One who reprimands.

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

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.] Fuller.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

Primarily.

An A-B-C book; a primer. [Obs.] Shak.

is now shorter than in ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place abou…

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.