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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden.

One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.

Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

The first or chief female singer in an opera.

The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

First; primary; original; chief. It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. Shak. The primal duties shine aloft like stars. Wordsworth.

First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

The first of the chief guards.

First; chief.

The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preëminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players. "The prince of learning." Peacham. Prince-Albert coat, a long double-breasted frock coat for men. -- Prince of the blood, Prince consort, Prince of darkness. See under Blood, Conso…

est 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. Wisdom is the principal thing. Prov. iv. 7.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform…

tion of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ accor…

applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." Shak. Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. Landor.

To write prose. Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter. Milton.

A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.

One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford.