Definition of first

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First (adv.) Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles..

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Consul :: Consul (n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul..
Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..
Handsel :: Handsel (n.) To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally..
Regulus :: Regulus (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.
Stand :: Stand (n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts..
Preoption :: Preoption (n.) Right of first choice.
Danburite :: Danburite (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form..
Planter :: Planter (n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia..
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..
Junior :: "Junior (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course..
Cud :: Cud (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time..
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..
Prerogative :: Prerogative (n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank.
First :: First (a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others..
Infancy :: Infancy (n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art..
Begin :: Begin (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start..
Firstling :: Firstling (a.) Firstborn.
Brahma :: Brahma (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer..
First :: First (a.) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece..
Intranuclear :: Intranuclear (a.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis..
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