primer : Idioms & Phrases
Index
Detonating primer
- a primer exploded by a fuse; used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations.
Webster 1913
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
Webster 1913
Great primer
- . See under
Type .
Webster 1913
long primer
Long" prim"er
Definitions
(Print.) A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois. ✍ This line is printed in long primer.
Webster 1913
primer coat
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noun the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
ground; flat coat; undercoat; priming coat; primer; priming.
WordNet
Primer fine
(O. Eng. Law) , a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone.
Webster 1913
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 full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; now abolished.
