<OL TYPE="1"><LI>beginning, origin<LI>the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader<LI>that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause<LI>the extremity of a thing<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of the corners of a sail</OL><LI>the first place, principality, rule, magistracy<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of angels and demons</OL></OL>