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Definition of Primer
Prim´er | n. | 1. | One who, or that which, primes | | a. | 1. | First; original; primary. | | n. | 1. | Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. | | 2. | A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. | | 3. | (Print.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica. |
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