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first-rater | first-string | first-year | firstborn | firsthand | firstling | firstly | firth | firth of clyde | firth of forth | fisa

firstling

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Noun
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first=ling
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3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

firstlingn. [First + -ling.].
  •  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The thing first thought or done.  [1913 Webster]
    "The very firstlings of my heart shall be
    The firstlings of my hand.
    "  [1913 Webster]
firstlinga. 
     Firstborn.  [1913 Webster]
    "All the firstling males."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

firstling, n. (usu. in pl.)
1 the first result of anything, first-fruits.
2 the first offspring; the first born in a season.

ROGET THESAURUS

firstling

Age

N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.


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