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State :: State (n.) The principal persons in a government.

Recapitulation :: Recapitulation (n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..

Give :: Give (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given..

Principality :: Principality (n.) Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station..

Principalness :: Principalness (n.) The quality of being principal.

Mainly :: Mainly (adv.) Principally; chiefly.

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury..

Semiparabola :: Semiparabola (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve..

Leader :: Leader (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article..

Cardinal :: Cardinal (a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

Palmary :: Palmary (a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work..

Chiefly :: Chiefly (adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.

Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..

Chief :: Chief (a.) Highest in office or rank; principal; head.

Commodore :: Commodore (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet..

Mainland :: Mainland (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula..

Concordance :: Concordance (n.) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place..

Append :: Append (v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter..

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