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The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
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The religious service appointed to this hour.
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The early morning generally.
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The earliest stage of something.
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The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
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The chief or best individual or part.
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The first note or tone of a musical scale.
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The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
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A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
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3 is a prime.
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A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
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Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
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I'm threatening to build a prime here.
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The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
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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.
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An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
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The priming in a flintlock.
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Contraction of prime lens, a film lens