Primer /(?)/

Prim·er

Primer

n.
  1. One who, or that which, primes

Primer

a.
  1. First; original; primary. [Obs.]

Phrases & Compounds
Primer fine
a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine.
Primer seizin
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.

Primer

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.
    The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin.
    — Bp. Stillingfleet.
  2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
    As he sat in the school at his prymer.
  3. 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. (Print.)