Definition of first

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First (a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others..

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Repetend :: Repetend (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283..
Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..
Bascinet :: Bascinet (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor..
Archiater :: Archiater (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities..
Teething :: Teething (n.) The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition..
Advent :: Advent (n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
Parabolism :: Parabolism (n.) The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December..
Pylangium :: Pylangium (n.) The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
Genesis :: Genesis (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race..
Preoption :: Preoption (n.) Right of first choice.
Jacobian :: "Jacobian (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England..
Break :: Break (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn..
Metaphysics :: Metaphysics (n.) The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles..
Plebiscite :: Plebiscite (n.) A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791..
Muharram :: Muharram (n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year.
Aricine :: Aricine (n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane..
Acrospire :: Acrospire (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.
Sanctus :: Sanctus (n.) A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus..
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