Long prim·er n. Print. A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
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Prim·er n.
1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
As he sat in the school at his prymer. --Chaucer.
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.
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