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House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in

Elul :: Elul (n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September..

Pisces :: Pisces (n. pl.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs..

Twelfth-day :: Twelfth-day (n.) See Twelfthtide.

Point :: Point (n.) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type..

Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..

Digit :: Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk..

Twelfth-second :: Twelfth-second (n.) A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second..

Inc :: Inc (n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Sign :: Sign (n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.

Epiphany :: Epiphany (n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide..

Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

Semisextile :: Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees..

Twelfth :: Twelfth (a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..

Mansion :: Mansion (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8..

Black Book :: Black book () A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc..

Uncia :: Uncia (n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce..

Line :: Line (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.

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