arch² /ärch/

1. Chief, principal (now esp in compounds; see arch-)
2. Waggish, mischievous
3. Roguish
4. Cunning, shrewd
5. Finished, accomplished, pre-eminent, esp in evil (Bunyan)

Chief

archˈly adverb

archˈness noun

• direct tax
• direct taxes
• direful
• direfully
• direfulness
• direfulnesses
• dirempt
• dirempted
• dirempting
• diremption
• diremptions
• dirempts
• direness
• direnesses
• direr
• direst
• dire wolf
• dire wolves
• dirge
• dirges
• dirham
• dirhams
• dirhem
• dirhems
• dirige