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

Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar..

Twelfth-cake :: Twelfth-cake (n.) An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

Florin :: Florin (n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents..

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..

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-night :: Twelfth-night (n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches..

Penny :: Penny (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius)..

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

Twelfth :: Twelfth (a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided..

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

Month :: Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..

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

Adar :: Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March..

Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

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..

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

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

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