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[ primi genal (pri-mij'e-nal), a. [Also erroneously primogenial; caps. machine for putting fulminate into percu ion- priming-powder (pri'ming-pou"dėr), n . 1. Det- onating powder.-2. The train of powder con- necting a fuse with a charge. priming-tube (pri'ming-tūb), n . In gun ., same as friction - tube . priming-wire (prīʼming-wir), п . See priming- iron . prim invariant (prim-in-vā'ri-ant), n. A fun- damental a syzygetic invariant. primipara (pri-mip'a-rä), n.; pl. primiparæ (-re). [L.: see primiparous .] A woman who bears a child for the first time: correlated with nullipara , multipara . primiparity (pri-mi-par'i-ti), n. [ primipara + -ity .] The state of being a primipara. primiparous (pri-mip'a-rus), a . [L. primi- para , one that has brought forth for the first time, primus , first, + parere , bring forth, bear.] Bearing a child for the first time. primi pilar (pri-mi-pīʻlär), a . [L. primi pilar is , pertaining to the first maniple of the triarii, primi pilus , the chief centurion of the triarii, primigenial (pri-mi-jē'ni-al), a . [L. primige- nius , first of its kind, primitive (see primigeni - primus , first, + pilus , the body of the tri a- ous), +-al.] 1. First-born; original; primary. Also primogenial. They recover themselves again to their condition of pri migenial innocence. Glanville , Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. 2. Specifically applied to several animals of a primitive or early type after their kind, or to such a primitive type: as, the primigenial elephant ( Elephas primi genius ). The primigenial elephant and rhinoceros. Owen, Anat., § 360. [L. primi primi gen i ous (pri-mi-jē'ni-us), a. genius, first produced, primitive, Rutimeyer believes that these niatas cattle belong to the primi gen i ous type. Darwin , Var. of Animals and Plants, iii. primigenous (pri-mij'e-nus), a . [ primige rii, It may be reasonable to allow St. Peter a primacy of order, such a one as the ringleader hath in a dance, as the primi pilar centurion had in the legion. Barrow , Works, VII. 70. primitiæ (pri-mish'i-ē), n. pl. [L. (> F.prémi ces, > E. premices ), the first things of their kind, first-fruits, The first-fruits of any production of the earth; specifically ( eccles.), the first-fruits of an ecclesiastical benefice, payable to the Pope, the church, or other ecclesiastical authority: same as annats. See annat, 1.-2. In obstet., the waters discharged before the extrusion of the fetus. nus , first produced, primitive, primus , first, + genere, gignere, beget, produce.] Same as pri- 1t. Being of the first production; primitive; migenious. Primigenum (prī-mij'e-num), n . [NL., neut. of L. primi genus, first produced, primitive, original: see primi gen i ous.] Hogg's name (1830) of a kingdom of nature, more fully called Reg num primigenum, the primi genal kingdom, composed of the same author's Protoctist a, and corresponding to the Primal i a of Wilson and Ca in, or the Protist a of Haeckel. primigravida (pri-mi-grav'i-da), n.; pl. primi gravidæ (-dē). [NL., priminary, ". See priminery. primine (priʼmin), n. [ priminery, priminary (pri-min'e-ri, -a-ri), n.; pl. primineries, priminaries (-riz). A difficulty; predicament. [Prov. Eng.and U. S.] priming (priʼming), n. [Verbal n. of prime , v.] 1. In gun, and blasting, the act of applying the powder, percu ion-cap, or other material used to ignite the charge; hence, the powder or cap itself. The one that escaped informed us that his and his companions' guns would not go off, the priming being wet with the rain. Franklin , Autobiog., p. 233. 2. Figuratively, anything as small relatively to something else as the gun-priming is relatively to the charge: as, his crop isn't a priming to mine. [Western U. S.] -3. In painting, the first layer of paint, size, or other material given to any surface as a ground. It may be of oil-color, and is then non-absorbent, or of chalk or plaster mixed with animal glue, and is then absorbent. 4. In steam-engines: ( a ) Hot water carried along by the steam from the boiler into the cylinder. (b) The carrying of such water from the boiler into the cylinder. Priming of the tides. See lagging of the tides, under lagging. priming-horn (pri'ming-horn), n. A miner's or quarryman's powder-horn. priming-iron (pri'ming-1"èrn), n. In gun., a pointed wire used through the vent of a cannon to prick the cartridge when it is home, and after discharge to extinguish any ignited particles. [Eng.] In the United States service called priming -wire. primitial (pri-mish'al), a. [ [ primi primitively they were embedded that their determination was a matter of doubt. Many of the rocks formerly called primitive are now known to be more or le thor oughly metamorphosed Paleozoic strata, and in the pro gre of geological investigation they have been referred to their place in the series of stratified formations. Other so-called primitive rocks belong to the azoic or archæan series (as this latter term was and still is used by Dana)-that is, they unmistakably underlie unconformably the oldest known fo iliferous strata. These azoic rocks are made up in part of eruptive ma es, and in part of highly metamorphosed sedimentary deposits which, so far as can be determined from existing evidence, were deposited before the appearance of life on the earth. As there is much primitive rock of which the geological age has not as yet been fixed, it has been found convenient to designate this simply as crystalline or metamorphic; such rocks are, however, often called archæan; but this cannot be properly done until their infra-Silurian position has been established by observation. These remarkable formations [granite, granitic schist, roofing-slate, etc.] have been called primitive , from their having been supposed to constitute the most ancient mineral productions of the globe, and from a notion that they originated before the earth was inhabited by living beings, and while yet the planet was in a nascent state. Sir C. Lyell , Prin. of Geol. (4th ed., 1835), III. 336. Primitive aorta. See aorta. Primitive axes of co ordinates, that system of axes to which the points of a magnitude are first referred with reference to a second set, to which they are afterward referred.- Primitive carotid artery, the common carotid artery. - Primitive cerebral cleft. See cleft1.- Primitive chord, in music, a chord in its original position - that is, with its root in the lowest voice-part. - Primitive circle, in the stereographic projection of the sphere, the circle on the plane of which the projection is made. Primitive colors, in painting, red, yellow, and blue: so called because it was erroneously believed that from mixtures of these all other colors could be obtained. In regard to mixtures of pigments, this very rudely approximates to the truth; in regard to true mixtures of colors, it is strikingly false. See color. Primitive contra variant, dislocation, equation. See the nouns.-Primitive curve, surface, etc., that from which another is derived. - Primitive fathers. See fathers of the church, under father. Primitive fibrillæ, the extremely fine filaments of which the axis-cylinder of a nerve-fiber is composed. Also called nerve - fibrils, granu lar fibrils.- Primitive fire. See fire. Primitive form, in the theory of numbers, a form which is not equivalent to another form with smaller coefficients. Thus, the form x2 4xy + 2y2, by means of the transformation x = ξ – 3η y = 2ξ – 5η (the determinant of which is unity, is shown to be equivalent to §2 – 2ξη – η2, or earliest of its kind, primus , first: see prime .] I. a . 1. Pertaining to the beginning or origin; original; especially, having something else of the same kind derived from it, but not itself cerebrospinal axis. It is the very earliest characteristic derived from anything of the same kind; first: as, the primitive church; the primitive speech. Sur . Did Adam write, sir, in High Dutch? Mam . He did; Which proves it was the primitive tongue. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. Things translated into another Tongue lose of their primitive Vigour and Strength. Howell , Letters, ii. 47. The power of thy grace is not past away with the primi tive times, as fond and faithle e men imagine. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. The settlers [in America] were driven to cast off many of the improvements or corruptions, as we may choose to call them, which had overshadowed the elder institutions of the mother-country, and largely to fall back on the prim itive form of those institutions E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 178. 2. Characterized by the simplicity of old times; old-fashioned; plain or rude: as, a primitive style of dre . I should starve at their primitive banquet. Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. 3. In gram., noting a word as related to another that is derived from it; noting that word from which a derivative is made, whether itself demonstrably derivative or not.-4. In biol.: (a) rudimentary; inceptive; primordial; beginning to take form or acquire recognizable existence: applicable to any part, organ, or structure in the first or a very early stage of its formation: as, the primitive cerebral vesicles (the rudiment of the brain, out of which the whole brain is to be formed). See cut at pro to vertebra. (b) Primary or first of its kind; temporary and soon to disappear: opposed to definitive: as, the primitive aorta.-5. În bot., noting specific types, in opposition to forms resulting from hybridization. Henslow. -6. In geol., of the earliest or supposed earliest formation: in the early history of geology noting the older crystalline rocks of which the age and stratigraphical relations were uncertain, and the fo ils (where these had once been present) either entirely obliterated or rendered so indistinct by metamorphism of the strata in which and this latter is evidently primitive. - Primitive groove, the first furrow which appears along the midline of the back of a vertebrate embryo, in the site of the future formation of a vertebrate, caused by a sinking in of a line of cells of the ectoblast, and a rising up of other cells of the same blastodermic layer to form right and left ridges or lips of the groove, which lips soon grow together and thus convert the groove into a tube, within which the cerebrospinal axis is developed. Also called primi tive furrow, streak, and trace. - Primitive group. See group1. Primitive Methodist Connection, a Wesley an denomination founded in 1810 by Hugh Bourne. In doctrine it is in substantial accord with other Methodist churches; in polity it is substantially Presbyterian. It is found principally in England, the British colonies, and the United States, and numbers about 185,000 members. Primitive Nth root of unity, an imaginary root of unity which is not a root of unity of a lower order than N.- Primitive plane, in spherical projection, the plane upon which the projections are made, generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere. Primitive radii. Same as proportional radii (which see, under radius ). - Primitive root of a prime number p, a number whose pth power diminished by unity is the lowest power of it divisible by p. - Primitive root of the binomial congruence appertaining to the exponent m, a number which satisfies the congruence al (mod p ) and no similar congruence of lower degree. - Primitive sheath, the membranous sheath of neurokeratin lying in medullated nerve-fibers outside of the white substance of Schwann. Also called sheath of Schwann, and neuri lemma.=Syn. 1 and 2. Pristine, etc. See primary. II. n. 1. An original or primary word; a word from which another is derived: opposed to derivative .-21. An early Christian. The zeal of the present age is stark cold, if compared to the fervours of the apostles and other holy primitives. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 685. 3. In math ., a geometrical or algebraic form from which another is derived, especially an algebraic expre ion of which another is the derivative; an equation which satisfies a differential equation, or equation of differences, of which it is said to be the primitive (if it has the requisite number of arbitrary constants to form the solution of the differential equation, it is called the complete primitive : see complete ); a curve of which another is the polar or reciprocal, etc. primitively (prim'i-tiv-li), adv . 1. Originally; at first. Tithers themselves have contributed to their own confutation by confe ing that the Church liv'd primitively on Alms. Milton , Touching Hirelings. IMG:content-0960.png:[blocks in formation]