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Chief
CHIEF, a.
1. Highest in office or rank; principal; as a chief priest; the chief butler. Gen 40:9.
Among the chief rulers, many believed on him. John 12.
2. Principal or most eminent, in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; commanding most respect; taking the lead; most valuable; most important; a word of extensive use; as a country chief in arms.
The hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. Ezra 9.
Agriculture is the chief employment of men.
3. First in affection; most dear and familiar.
A whisperer separateth chief friends. Prov 16.
CHIEF, n.
1. A commander; particularly a military commander; the person who heads an army; equivalent to the modern terms, commander or general in chief, captain general, or generalissimo. 1 Chr 11.
2. The principal person of a tribe, family, or congregation, etc.
Num 3. Job 29. Math. 20.
3. In chief, in English law, in capite. To hold land in chief is to hold it directly from the king by honorable personal services.
4. In heraldry, chief signifies the head or upper part of the escutcheon, from side to side, representing a mans head. In chief, imports something borne in this part.
5. In Spenser, it seems to signify something like achievement, a mark of distinction; as, chaplets wrought with a chief.
6. This word is often used, in the singular number, to express a plurality.
I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you. Deu 1:15.
These were the chief of the officers, that were over Solomons work. 1 Ki 9.
In these phrases, chief may have been primarily an adjective, that is, chief men, chief persons.
7. The principal part; the most or largest part, of one thing or of many.
The people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed. 1 Sam 15.
He smote the chief of their strength. Psa 68.
The chief of the debt remains unpaid.
CHIEF, adv. Chiefly.
chief appears in definitions for these words:
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Barony Base-court Basilar Beadle Beating Beauteous Beauty Behind Belay Bench Bend Benzoin Bergmaster Berlin Bezoar Bibber Bilander Borough Borsholder Bossage Bottom Bounteous Brahma Brick Brief Brocatel Broom Bull Burgomaster Cabala Cameo Canal Cantata Capital Capite Captain Captainry Captainship Cardinal Care Cassia Cat Catechu Cattle Cazic Cazique Celibate Certify Chancellor Chanter Chief Chiefage Chiefless Chiefly Chieftain Chieftainry Child Cinnabar Cipolin Clan Clanship Clerk Cleve Cock Cogency Coif Coin Coition Colonel Command Commander Comminute Common Concrete Condemn Conductor Confine Conjugate Consort Construction Consul Consult Consultation Content Contributary Coral-tree Corner-stone Coroner Corypheus Council Counselor Counter Course Courser Craft Cross-road Cross-way Crownet Cruse Curiosity Currant Cyriologic Czar Damask Damasken Damned Debauchee Debauchery Declivity Dedicate Defalcate Defray Devil Devolve Devote Dialect Dine Disapprove Disciplinarian Disease Dishevel Distain Distend Doge Drum-major Drunk Drunken Ducatoon Duke Dynasty Dysentery Edile Elapse Elate Elector Elephant Ell En Endemial Entrail Entrap Epicure Epistle Erysipelas Especial Especially Essential Estate Even Exalt Exarch Exchequer Executioner Executive Exorcise Expiation Export F Fathom Favor Federal Fell Fibrin Field-duck Fife Fill Finch Fine Fireblast Flood Flower-garden Flute Follow Fondness Forehand Foreman Forest Forewoman Full Gamboge Gannet Gantlet Gash Gate Gelding General Generalissimo Gesture Glance-coal Go God Going Gonfalon Goose Govern Grain Grand Graywacke Great Grenadier Gross Guitar Gymnastic Gymnosophist Haft Hand Hang Harvest Head Head-workman Headborough Headless Headman Headquarters Headship Headstone Heart Hearted Heresiarch Heresiarchy Hie Hierarch High-priest Hilt Hobble Honesty Horn Householder Housekeeper However Humblebee Humor Husk Hyalite Hygroscope Illumine Imbrue Implex Incident Incidental Inform Inn Inoculation Insaneness Instigate Insuperable Insurgent Integument Intendant Interstice Invest Ire Isinglass Japan-earth Judge Justice Justiciar Ken Kersey Keystone Khan King Kingapple Konilite Label Lacerate Ladanum Lament Lane Lave Lay Lead Leader Leading League Learn Leather-seller Lictor Limb Locomotive Longevity Lord Love Luminary Madam Main Mainly Major Major-domo Majority Maladministration Mangle Mareschal Marshal Mart Master Master-piece Mastership Matter Mayor Meadow Megalopolis Mention Mere Message Mete Meteromancy Metropolis Metropolitan Metropolitic Might Minister Monarch Monger Moot Morally Morn Mosk Mother Mouthed Mufti Mug Mure Muster-master Muzzle Myriarch Myrrh Mysteriarch Narrow Nave Navigator Nimble Nocturnal Nomadize Noon Obedient Obsolete Officiate Old Oration Orchard Order Overt Owl Paced Paramount Patriarch Peat Pendant Penitentiary Perch Petition Picrolite Pied Pillage Pin Pistol Pitch Pledge Polemarch Pontoon Portreeve Portress Postmaster Powter Precipice Prefect Prefectship Prefer Premier Prescript Preside President Pretend Pretor Prick Priest Primacy Primarily Primary Primate Prime Prince Principal Principally Principalness Principle Profane Prologue Propension Prothonotary Protopope Provost Puisne Punctuality Pursuance Put Quarter Quittance Raff Rag Recognizance Recruit Rector Refraction Regnant Rencounter Respecter Resurrection Retinue Rheumatism Rhomb-spar Ribaldry Ric Righteous Righteousness Roar Root Roster Round Ruddiness Ruddy Ruling Sable Sachem Sack Sackcloth Sagamore Sailor Salute Sandstone Sap Satan Scheelin Schoolmaster Scottish Sect Seleniuret Self Selfish Sensualist Shadow Shatters Sheading Shears Sheet-anchor Sheild Shop Silisia Sledge Snack Snub Solubility Sop Sorehon Sorn Soul Souled Sovereign Specht Specially Speckle Squeal Stadtholder Staff Staple Starch Station Statute-merchant Ster Stern Sternon Story Stratocracy Straw Street Structure Stud Style Subaltern Sublunar Sugar Sun Superfine Superior Surge Surveyor-general Suveran Swain Swallow-wort Syndic T Tafelspath Talent Tallow Tatter Taxiarch Telescope Tenant Tent Tertiary Teutonic Theater Theriac Thinker Thrill Tithingman Toast Top Toparch Topple Trade Tradition Transatlantic Tree Tree-toad Trierarch Trope Trumpet Tuner Tung Turn Udder Uncomplete Unconceivable Undefeasible Undetermination Unpenetrable Unreverent Unsufferably Unsupportableness Uplift Vermin Vesuvian Viand Victuals Village Visage Vishnu Vitriol Vizer Wabble Wages Wapentac Wapentake Warn Whitewood Wide Wind-instrument Wit Wood-ashes Work Worship Wort Worth Wright Wring Yenite Yonder
Abased Abduce Abet Abolish Above Abstain Abstemious Absterge Abstraction Abut Abutment Accommodation Aculeate Adjutant Administer Administration Admiral Advoyer Aerography Aforegoing Aga Aid Albumen Alcaid Alchimy Ale Alleghany Alleluiah Aloetic Alpha Amaze Amorado Animate Antechamber Antistes Apply Apprehend Arc Arch Archapostate Archapostle Archbeacon Archbilder Archbishop Archbotcher Archbuilder Archchamberlain Archchancellor Archchanter Archcount Archcritic Archdapifer Archdruid Archeus Archfelon Archfiend Archflamen Archflatterer Archfoe Archfounder Archgovernor Archheretic Archhierey Archhypocrite Archiater Archical Archimandrite Archipelago Architect Architrave Archivault Archmagician Archon Archpastor Archphilosopher Archprelate Archpresbyter Archpresbytery Archpriest Archprimate Archprophet Archrebel Archvillain Areopagus Armadillo Armillary Arsenic Art Asiarch Asmonean Aspiration Assassins Assignation Astronomy Attorney Auger August Auspicious Await Axstone Bagpipe Banderet Barony Base-court Basilar Beadle Beating Beauteous Beauty Behind Belay Bench Bend Benzoin Bergmaster Berlin Bezoar Bibber Bilander Borough Borsholder Bossage Bottom Bounteous Brahma Brick Brief Brocatel Broom Bull Burgomaster Cabala Cameo Canal Cantata Capital Capite Captain Captainry Captainship Cardinal Care Cassia Cat Catechu Cattle Cazic Cazique Celibate Certify Chancellor Chanter Chief Chiefage Chiefless Chiefly Chieftain Chieftainry Child Cinnabar Cipolin Clan Clanship Clerk Cleve Cock Cogency Coif Coin Coition Colonel Command Commander Comminute Common Concrete Condemn Conductor Confine Conjugate Consort Construction Consul Consult Consultation Content Contributary Coral-tree Corner-stone Coroner Corypheus Council Counselor Counter Course Courser Craft Cross-road Cross-way Crownet Cruse Curiosity Currant Cyriologic Czar Damask Damasken Damned Debauchee Debauchery Declivity Dedicate Defalcate Defray Devil Devolve Devote Dialect Dine Disapprove Disciplinarian Disease Dishevel Distain Distend Doge Drum-major Drunk Drunken Ducatoon Duke Dynasty Dysentery Edile Elapse Elate Elector Elephant Ell En Endemial Entrail Entrap Epicure Epistle Erysipelas Especial Especially Essential Estate Even Exalt Exarch Exchequer Executioner Executive Exorcise Expiation Export F Fathom Favor Federal Fell Fibrin Field-duck Fife Fill Finch Fine Fireblast Flood Flower-garden Flute Follow Fondness Forehand Foreman Forest Forewoman Full Gamboge Gannet Gantlet Gash Gate Gelding General Generalissimo Gesture Glance-coal Go God Going Gonfalon Goose Govern Grain Grand Graywacke Great Grenadier Gross Guitar Gymnastic Gymnosophist Haft Hand Hang Harvest Head Head-workman Headborough Headless Headman Headquarters Headship Headstone Heart Hearted Heresiarch Heresiarchy Hie Hierarch High-priest Hilt Hobble Honesty Horn Householder Housekeeper However Humblebee Humor Husk Hyalite Hygroscope Illumine Imbrue Implex Incident Incidental Inform Inn Inoculation Insaneness Instigate Insuperable Insurgent Integument Intendant Interstice Invest Ire Isinglass Japan-earth Judge Justice Justiciar Ken Kersey Keystone Khan King Kingapple Konilite Label Lacerate Ladanum Lament Lane Lave Lay Lead Leader Leading League Learn Leather-seller Lictor Limb Locomotive Longevity Lord Love Luminary Madam Main Mainly Major Major-domo Majority Maladministration Mangle Mareschal Marshal Mart Master Master-piece Mastership Matter Mayor Meadow Megalopolis Mention Mere Message Mete Meteromancy Metropolis Metropolitan Metropolitic Might Minister Monarch Monger Moot Morally Morn Mosk Mother Mouthed Mufti Mug Mure Muster-master Muzzle Myriarch Myrrh Mysteriarch Narrow Nave Navigator Nimble Nocturnal Nomadize Noon Obedient Obsolete Officiate Old Oration Orchard Order Overt Owl Paced Paramount Patriarch Peat Pendant Penitentiary Perch Petition Picrolite Pied Pillage Pin Pistol Pitch Pledge Polemarch Pontoon Portreeve Portress Postmaster Powter Precipice Prefect Prefectship Prefer Premier Prescript Preside President Pretend Pretor Prick Priest Primacy Primarily Primary Primate Prime Prince Principal Principally Principalness Principle Profane Prologue Propension Prothonotary Protopope Provost Puisne Punctuality Pursuance Put Quarter Quittance Raff Rag Recognizance Recruit Rector Refraction Regnant Rencounter Respecter Resurrection Retinue Rheumatism Rhomb-spar Ribaldry Ric Righteous Righteousness Roar Root Roster Round Ruddiness Ruddy Ruling Sable Sachem Sack Sackcloth Sagamore Sailor Salute Sandstone Sap Satan Scheelin Schoolmaster Scottish Sect Seleniuret Self Selfish Sensualist Shadow Shatters Sheading Shears Sheet-anchor Sheild Shop Silisia Sledge Snack Snub Solubility Sop Sorehon Sorn Soul Souled Sovereign Specht Specially Speckle Squeal Stadtholder Staff Staple Starch Station Statute-merchant Ster Stern Sternon Story Stratocracy Straw Street Structure Stud Style Subaltern Sublunar Sugar Sun Superfine Superior Surge Surveyor-general Suveran Swain Swallow-wort Syndic T Tafelspath Talent Tallow Tatter Taxiarch Telescope Tenant Tent Tertiary Teutonic Theater Theriac Thinker Thrill Tithingman Toast Top Toparch Topple Trade Tradition Transatlantic Tree Tree-toad Trierarch Trope Trumpet Tuner Tung Turn Udder Uncomplete Unconceivable Undefeasible Undetermination Unpenetrable Unreverent Unsufferably Unsupportableness Uplift Vermin Vesuvian Viand Victuals Village Visage Vishnu Vitriol Vizer Wabble Wages Wapentac Wapentake Warn Whitewood Wide Wind-instrument Wit Wood-ashes Work Worship Wort Worth Wright Wring Yenite Yonder
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