(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
verb
(climbing) to hold using a crimp
(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
grimp
impar
imper
pamir
pmirr
priam
priam
Proper noun
The king of Troy during the Iliad
prima
prima
adj
most important
prime
prime
adj
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
noun
(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
(card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
(cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
(historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(now rare) The earliest stage of something.
(obsolete) The early morning generally.
(obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
The chief or best individual or part.
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(intransitive, of a steam boiler) 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.
(mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
(transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
primi
primo
primo
adj
(colloquial) Best; first-class.
noun
(music) The principal part of a duet.
primp
primp
verb
(intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
(transitive) To dress in an affected manner.
prims
prims
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prim
primy
primy
adj
(obsolete) in its prime
prism
prism
noun
(geometry) A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.
A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light.
purim
purim
Proper noun
A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a massacre.