First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To mark with a prime mark.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
The religious service appointed to this hour.
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
The chief or best individual or part.
The first note or tone of a musical scale.
An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned