Definition of principal

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Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

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Vomitory :: Vomitory (n.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater..
Grand :: Grand (superl.) Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake..
Compendium :: Compendium (n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary..
Nimbus :: Nimbus (n.) A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.
Mainly :: Mainly (adv.) Principally; chiefly.
Funding :: Funding (a.) Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
Face :: Face (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object..
Beam :: Beam (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
Satrapy :: Satrapy (n.) The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
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..
Average :: Average (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets..
Wreath :: Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms..
Attic :: Attic (a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined..
Premier :: Premier (a.) First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister..
Perpetuity :: Perpetuity (n.) The number of years in which the simple interest of any sum becomes equal to the principal.
Staple :: Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels..
Muskmelon :: Muskmelon (n.) The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon..
Maxillary :: Maxillary (n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
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.
Matador :: Matador (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one..
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