Definition of chief

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Chief (n.) The principal part; the most valuable portion.

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Optimate :: Optimate (n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.
Hall :: Hall (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment..
Eudialyte :: Eudialyte (n.) A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime..
Leader :: Leader (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
Cid :: Cid (n.) Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century..
Toed :: Toed (a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed..
Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices..
Wight :: Wight (n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language..
Wrap :: Wrap (v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Kainite :: Kainite (n.) A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony..
Cornercap :: Cornercap (n.) The chief ornament.
Lead :: Lead (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t..
Captainship :: Captainship (n.) The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander..
Reexport :: Reexport (n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.
#NAME? :: -hood () A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head..
Monger :: Monger (n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger..
Meat :: Meat (n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal..
Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Macaroni :: Macaroni (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste..
Tailed :: Tailed (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc..
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