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Avenue :: Avenue (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered..

Obverse :: Obverse (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..

Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..

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

Center :: Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction..

Frontispiece :: Frontispiece (n.) The principal front of a building.

Bargecourse :: Bargecourse (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable..

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Principal :: Principal (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

Mainstay :: Mainstay (n.) Main support; principal dependence.

Copts :: Copts (n. pl.) The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

Latticing :: Latticing (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut..

Intertie :: Intertie (n.) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another..

Principal :: 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..

Subordinated :: Subordinate (n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.

Preceptress :: Preceptress (n.) A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.

Metapterygium :: Metapterygium (n.) The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..

Head :: Head (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook..

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