Primer

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.

(2): ( n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.

(3): ( n.) One who, or that which, primes

(4): ( n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

(5): ( a.) First; original; primary.

(6): ( n.) 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.