Long prim·er n. Print. A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
 Note: ☞ This line is printed in long primer.

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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.
 Note: Great primer type.

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