The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm. [1913 Webster]
The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface. [1913 Webster]
The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder. [1913 Webster]

Priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Priming tube, a small pipe, filled with a combustible composition for firing cannon. -- Priming valve (Steam Eng.), a spring safety valve applied to the cylinder of a steam engine for discharging water carried into the cylinder by priming. -- Priming wire, a pointed wire used to penetrate the vent of a piece, for piercing the cartridge before priming.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Priming, n.
1 a mixture used by painters for a preparatory coat.
2 a preparation of sugar added to beer.
3 a gunpowder placed in the pan of a firearm. b a train of powder connecting the fuse with the charge in blasting etc.

Priming, n. an acceleration of the tides taking place from the neap to the spring tides.

Etymology

prime (v.) f. PRIME(1) + -ING(1)

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THESAURUS

Priming

blasting cap, calcimining, cap, chromogen, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, covering, cramming, dead-color, detonating powder, detonator, distemper, drier, dye, dyestuff, electric detonator, enameling, exploder, exterior paint, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, fresco, fulminating mercury, fuse, gilding, glazing, glossing, ground, interior paint, japanning, medium, mercury fulminate, opaque color, paint, painting, percussion cap, pigment, pre-education, preinstruction, primacord, prime coat, primer, shellacking, squib, stain, staining, stippling, tempera, thinner, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, varnishing, vehicle, wash, wash coat, whitewashing

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Priming

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.

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