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• Prime

  ·adj Lecherous; lustful; lewd. II. Prime ·adj To mark with a prime mark. III. Prime ·adj To trim o...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• prime

  Bang up. Quite the thing. Excellent. Well done. She's a prime piece; she is very skilful in the vene...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• prime

  Primely; in a first rate manner. This is one of the many English adjectives which, in our vulgar lan...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• prime

  The fore part of the artificial day; that is, the first quarter after sunrise. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Prime Donne

  ·pl of Prima donna. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• prime good

  excellent. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• prime, to

  To make ready a gun, mine, &c., for instantaneous firing. Also, to pierce the cartridge with the p...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• prime vertical

  That great circle which passes through the zenith and the east and west points of the horizon. ...

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