First"-rate` (?), a.
Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.
Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
M. Arnold.
Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability.
Jowett (Thucyd).
© Webster 1913.
First"-rate`, n. Naut.
A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.
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