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A rhymer; a versifier.

One who, or that which, begrimes.

See Floramour. [Obs.]

A print; impression.

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

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

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

A fencing master. [Obs.] Shak.

A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.

One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.

Having the parts in threes.

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.

ire 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. -- C…

To manure with chalk, as land. Morimer.