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

Twelfthtide :: Twelfthtide (n.) The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.

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

Ounce :: Ounce (n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month..

Dozenth :: Dozenth (a.) Twelfth.

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-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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) The next in order after the eleventh.

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Minnesinger :: Minnesinger (n.) A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses..

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