The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
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 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
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 head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
The senior person in a monastic community.
One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
Greater in size or power.
Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
Higher in rank, status, or quality.
(of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
Of high standard or quality.
Located above or out; higher in position.
Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
(of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
Printed in superscript.
(of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
More comprehensive.
(of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
Greater or better than average.