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Chiefly
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.
2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay. Swift.