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Fir
A genus Abies of coniferous trees often of large size and elegant shape some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin The species are distinguished as the balsam fir the silver fir the red fir etc The Scotch fir is a Pinus...
Fir tree
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First
Preceding all others of a series or kind the ordinal of one earliest as the first day of a month the first year of a reign...
first amendment
first amendment The constitutional amendment ratified with the Bill of Rights in 1791, guaranteeing the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly and the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances. Source: FindLaw ...
first blush
first blush : initial view, appearance, or consideration used esp. in the phrase at first blush [an award can be set aside as excessive if at first blush it indicates prejudice on the part of the jury] ...
First class
Of the best class of the highest rank in the first division of the best quality first rate as a first class telescope...
First class
First class, The meaning of word 'first class' is that 'a term often used in describing goods in a contract of sale and implying that they are such as correspond with the best of their kind in general use, not merely with the best of a single manufacturer, unless, indeed, the two superlatives coincide', Munshi Ram v. Union of India, (1972) 3 SCC 866....
first come first served
distributed in order to those who request it in person not subject to reservation for later delivery Contrasted with reservable...
first degree
first degree : the grade given to the most serious forms of crimes [burglary in the first degree] first-degree adj ...
First fruits
First fruits, an incident to the old feudal tenures, being one year's profits of the land after the death of a tenant, which belonged to the king. Hence arose the claim of the head of the Church to the first year's profits of every clergyman's benefice; otherwise called annates or primati', transferred from the Pope to the Crown by 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, and from the Crown to the Church for the augmentation of poor livings, by 2 & 3 Anne, c. 11. The holders of benefices of a value not exceeding 50l. a year were freed from first fruits and tenths by 6 Anne, c. 44, and 6 Anne, c. 54. First fruits were paid on their value as compounded for under 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, by the then holders of preferments. But both first fruits and tenths were abolished by the First Fruits and Tenths Measure, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, No. 5). See BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE AND TENTHS....