Definition of principal

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Principal (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit..

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Bulk :: Bulk (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt..
Accompaniment :: Accompaniment (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass..
Principal :: Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
Face :: Face (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object..
Mesopterygium :: Mesopterygium (n.) The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
Prelude :: Prelude (v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture..
Bushman :: Bushman (n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people..
Ethnarchy :: Ethnarchy (n.) The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule.
Spur :: Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Pisces :: Pisces (n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei..
Act :: Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
Capital :: Capital (n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
Shake :: Shake (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..
Chilognatha :: Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together..
Ilium :: Ilium (n.) The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate..
Palmary :: Palmary (a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work..
Blade :: Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
Mandibular :: Mandibular (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..
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