A partner or owner of a business.
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.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
The person who takes over a shift for another.
The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
The removal of stress or discomfort.
The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
The difference of elevations on a surface.
Characterized by surface inequalities.
Of or used in letterpress.