·noun Origin; commencement; source.
II. Original ·noun A person of marked eccentricity.
III. Original ·adj Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
IV. Original ·noun An original thinker or writer; an Originator.
V. Original ·adj Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
VI. Original ·adj Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
VII. Original ·noun That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, ·etc.
VIII. Original ·noun The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
IX. Original ·adj Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.