Principal: alternatives and connections

Beginning; commencement.

Principle is a rule or belief; principal can mean main or a person in charge.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Beginning; commencement.

A rule, belief or fundamental idea.

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Of or pertaining to the head.

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That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for…

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One who educates; a teacher.

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One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.

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A player.

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One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

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Pedagogue.

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A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.

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One who injures another, or who does wrong.

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A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

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Guilty of crime or sin.

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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

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A person who has committed a felony.

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An image or representation of anything.

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An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

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The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Authority or dignity; chief place.

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Authority or dignity; chief place.

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A loanin.

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The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the…

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A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

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One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in d…

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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A hand or match at dice.

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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

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One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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