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Thirteen :: Thirteen (a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds..

Gross :: Gross (sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens..

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic..

Noonday :: Noonday (n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

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

Aries :: Aries (n.) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March..

Twelvemonth :: Twelvemonth (n.) A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..

Dodecagynia :: Dodecagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles.

Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..

Twelvepence :: Twelvepence (n.) A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents..

Thirteen :: Thirteen (n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.

Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16? or 18? broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac..

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Domify :: Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense..

Dodecagon :: Dodecagon (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.

Dodecahedral :: Dodecahedral (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides..

Shock :: Shock (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook..

Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune..

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