Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
Being the current holder of an office or a title.
Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them
Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned