First

  • 61first — 1. adjective /fɜːst,fɝst/ Having no predecessor. The ordinal number corresponding to one. T favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction,<! Hyphenated as “diſtinc tion” in the original source and from… …

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  • 62first — fÉœrst /fɜːst n. person or thing which is first; beginning; first gear, low gear; first place (in a race or competition); highest grade in an examination; one who received this grade (British) adj. being ahead of all others; initial, beginning… …

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  • 63first — adj 1. premiere, initial, initiative, opening; antecedent, anterior, preceding, precedent, in the front; primary, prime, primal; earliest, pristine, primeval, primigenial; elementary, fundamental, rudimentary, rudimental; original, incipient,… …

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  • 64first — Preceding all others; foremost; used as an ordinal of one, as earliest in time or succession or foremost in position; in front of or in advance of all others. Colgate Palmolive Peet Co. v. U. S., C.C.A.Del., 130 F.2d 913, 915. Initial; senior;… …

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  • 65first — Preceding all others; foremost; used as an ordinal of one, as earliest in time or succession or foremost in position; in front of or in advance of all others. Colgate Palmolive Peet Co. v. U. S., C.C.A.Del., 130 F.2d 913, 915. Initial; senior;… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 66first·ly — /ˈfɚstli/ adv used to introduce a statement that is the first in a series of statements Firstly, we need to consider the issue of providing people with affordable health care. ◇ Firstly is chiefly used to begin lists and is usually followed by… …

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  • 67First ZH — Illnau Effretikon Basisdaten Kanton: Zürich Bezirk: Pfäffikon …

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  • 68First — Her. Used as in of the first , indicating a similarity with the *tincture first mentioned in a *blazon …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 69first — [OE] As its st ending suggests, first was originally a superlative form. Its distant ancestor was Indo European *pro, denoting ‘before, in front’ (amongst whose other descendants to have reached English are prime and the prefix proto ). Its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 70-first — [[t] fɜ͟ː(r)st[/t]] COMB in ADV: ADV after v first combines with nouns like head and feet to indicate that someone moves with the part that is mentioned pointing in the direction in which they are moving. He overbalanced and fell head first …

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