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- English Word Princesse Definition A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
- English Word Princesslike Definition Like a princess.
- English Word Princewood Definition The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.
- English Word Princified Definition Imitative of a prince.
- English Word Principal Definition Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
- English Word Principal Definition Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
- English Word Principal Definition A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
- English Word Principal Definition The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
- English Word Principal Definition A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
- English Word Principal Definition One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
- English Word Principal Definition A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
- English Word Principal Definition A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
- English Word Principal Definition The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- English Word Principal Definition In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
- English Word Principal Definition A heirloom; a mortuary.
- English Word Principal Definition The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- English Word Principal Definition One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
- English Word Principal Definition A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
- English Word Principalities Definition of Principality
- English Word Principality Definition Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.
- English Word Principality Definition A prince; one invested with sovereignty.
- English Word Principality Definition The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.
- English Word Principally Definition In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
- English Word Principalness Definition The quality of being principal.
- English Word Principate Definition Principality; supreme rule.
- English Word Principia Definition First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
- English Word Principial Definition Elementary.
- English Word Principiant Definition Relating to principles or beginnings.
- English Word Principiate Definition To begin; to initiate.
- English Word Principiation Definition Analysis into primary or elemental parts.