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

Fructidor :: Fructidor (n.) The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire..

Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

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..

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

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..

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (n.) The next in order after the twelfth.

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

Fish :: Fish (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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