*rimer*

n. (Bot.) See Floramour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. imprimerie, fr. imprimer to imprint. ] [ Obs. ] (a) A print; impression. (b) A printing establishment. (c) The art of printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Print.) A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in long primer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. lormier, loremier, fr. LL. loranum bridle, L. lorum thong, the rein of a bridle. ] A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, primes; specifically, an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. primer, primier, premier, F. premier. See Premier. ] First; original; primary. [ Obs. ] “The primer English kings.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Primer fine (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. --
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. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Originally, the book read at prime, the first canonical hour. LL. primae liber. See Prime, n., 4. ] 1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. [ 1913 Webster ]

As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great primer type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. primera, fr. primero first, from L. primarius. See Premier. ] A game at cards, now unknown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Primrose. [ Obs. ] “She was a primerole.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Firearms) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rhymer; a versifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. escrimeur. See Skirmish. ] A fencing master. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Tri-, and -mere. ] (Zool.) A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]