A nugget of virgin metal. Ore selected for excellence.

Tin extracted from the slag.

To dress or act smartly.

The first or chief female singer in an opera.

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.

First; primary; original; chief.

The quality or state of being primal.

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention.

That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.

Primatical.

Of or pertaining to a primate.

To be renewed, or as at first.

At first; primarily.

The quality or state of being first.

Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.

A game at cards, now unknown.

See Primrose.

Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Primeval.

First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial.

First formed or generated; original; primigenial.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

A woman who bears a child for the first time.

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

Being of the first production; primitive; original.

An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

Originally; at first.

The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Quality of being first; primitiveness.

In a prim or precise manner.

The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

First; chief.

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light.

Primogeniture.

The first ancestor; a forefather.

The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.

The state or privileges of the firstborn.

A first principle or element.

Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.

Primordial.

To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.

Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.

The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulace/), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.

Being in its prime.

To play the prince.

The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince.

Princeliness.

Without a prince.

A petty prince.

Princely.

The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.

A petty prince; a young prince.

In a princely manner.

A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.

Like a princess.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

Imitative of a prince.

A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

The quality of being principal.

Principality; supreme rule.

First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

Elementary.

Relating to principles or beginnings.

To begin; to initiate.

Analysis into primary or elemental parts.

To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

A coxcomb; a pert boy.

To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.

One who prinks.

The long-tailed titmouse.

A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.

Worthy to be published.

One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.

The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.

Making no imprint.

A shop where prints are sold.

any of several types of protein particle lacking nucleic acid, believed to be the cause of certain slow-developing infectious diseases such as scapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kuru in humans.

a prior conviction; -- said of an accused criminal.

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.

A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

To order or rank (a list of tasks) according to priority; to assign a priorities to.

The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

Previously.

The state or office of prior; priorate.

A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

See Price, and 1st Prize.

A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

See 1st Prizer.

A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.

In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Having a prismlike form.

A body that approaches to the form of a prism.

Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.

Pertaining to a prism.

To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

One who is confined in a prison.

Imprisonment.

Pristine; primitive.

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.