Meanings of firstling in English

Kaiomorts, the original single ancestor of men, will be the firstling.

O my brethren, he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

It was a glorious day, the firstling of the summer.

From that most imperial Prince Rameses to the firstling of the cowherd, they are dead!

The Bull said: "Israel's ancestor was 'the firstling bullock.'"

He, however, who would be a firstling, let him take care lest he also become a lastling!

Whoever may be the author, it is the firstling of his dramatic muse, and worth merely a passing mention.

When the firstling of the sheep was born, Aaron appeared and demanded it, for the firstborn belongs to the priest.

Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy sheep.

The song sparrow, that universal favorite and firstling of the spring, comes before April, and its simple strain gladdens all hearts.

Still he lives, the firstling of thy bower;

No matter how crude or how young this firstling might come to seem to her, there would never be such another.

Then the scholar we are describing, the neglecter rather than the inspector of books, stuffs his volume with firstling violets, roses, and quadrifoils.

The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain.

This is true in the first instance of the male firstlings of cattle.

The firstlings were turned into contributions to the priests, and doubled in amount