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prime
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prime \Prime\, v. i. To be renewed, or as at first. [Obs.] Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again. --Quarles. To serve as priming for the charge of a gun. To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ...
Usage examples of prime.
Unless, Miller had said, you used it as a fuse, a primer, stuck to the tons of Amatol or Torpex or whatever they used.
There were some packages of pre-fabricated explosives with amatol, primer and chemical detonator combined in one neat unit with a miniature timing device that ranged from five seconds to five minutes, complete with sucker clamps.
At that point, they may find themselves with split loyalties: on the one hand, to defend the prime law of the anthropic cosmos, while at the same time, not wanting to surrender their misguided but nevertheless human peers into the claws of a great evil.
Haad Anchorage was not significantly larger than most other seaports on this largely archipelagic water world, but it had been originally designated Site Prime by the Terran expedition that had first settled here over a century ago.
At fifty, Arroyo looked sleek, slick, and ready for prime time, his razor-cut pompadour in perfect order, glasses lightly tinted, manicured nails buffed to a subtle gloss.
Parkinson have looked at the notes, seen Becca had a bareback sister and decided she was a prime candidate for a mutilated child?
However, in my own barracoon I have two hundred prime creatures, the best you will find in a thousand miles of sailing.
Despite his genuine friendship with Hyde, Berman knew that the chairman was well past his prime, not in good health and had a tendency to be lazy.
Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.
Getting this group to talk freely about their bras was going to require serious priming of the pump.
The portal creaked inward and faces peered out, sallow in the glow of cheap tallow dips, or brosy with drink and primed to proffer lewd comment.
Have you received a transmission of a holograph from Rhise Prime in the past 60 seconds?
To have risked the life of himself and his groom, not to mention the lives of two prime pieces of horseflesh to rescue a silly girl who did not need rescuing, was enough to try the patience of a saint.
Earl of Dumfries would be traveling on prime horseflesh as well, so the possibility of gaining on them was limited.
She learned to properly stretch and prime a canvas, to ink a lithography stone.