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First; original; primary. [Obs.] "The primer English kings." Drayton. Primer fine (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. -- Primer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of f…

A game at cards, now unknown. Shak.

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

A print; impression.

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

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.

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

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

fire cracker of large size. -- Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. -- Cannon metal. See Gun Metal. -- Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. -- Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. --…

e of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; -- used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations. -- Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides a…

A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

te of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which readily ignites by friction. -- Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the friction powder or composition with which the tube is filled -- Friction wheel (Mach.), one of the wheels in frictional geari…

r, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

everal varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.

lock (Firearms), one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.