Definition of first

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First (a.) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece..

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Lombard :: Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Foregame :: Foregame (n.) A first game; first plan.
Centner :: Centner (n.) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts..
Pylangium :: Pylangium (n.) The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
Brumaire :: Brumaire (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
Groundwork :: Groundwork (n.) That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Classical :: Classical (n.) Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art..
Matin :: Matin (n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.
Planting :: Planting (n.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.
Source :: Source (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause..
Primipara :: Primipara (n.) A woman who bears a child for the first time.
Rondo :: Rondo (n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move..
Section :: Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point..
Offer :: Offer (v. t.) The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance..
Medlar :: Medlar (n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay..
Maximum :: Maximum (n.) The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum..
Tricolor :: Tricolor (n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution..
Heterodactylous :: Heterodactylous (a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons..
Chiefly :: Chiefly (adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
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