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A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
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Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
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In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
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Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
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The first part.
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The first point after deuce.
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First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
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Firstborn.
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A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
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Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
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A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
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The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
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The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
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A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
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The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.
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A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
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The thing first thought or done.
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Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
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Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
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