LekhoriLekhoriFirst in importance, degree, or rank.
Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
This is a prime location for a bookstore.
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
His larum bell might lowd and wyde be hard, When cause requyrd, but neuer out of time; Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.
The religious service appointed to this hour.
An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
A surname.
From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond,...
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Most primes are won with gaps on the field; most sprints are in bunches.
I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
To be renewed.
Nights baſhfull Empreſſe, though ſhe often wayne, / As oft repents her darkneſſe ; primes againe ; / And with her circling Hornes does re-embrace / Her brothers wealth, and orbs her ſilver face.