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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..

Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..

Bowie Knife :: Bowie knife () A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife..

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..

Doubloon :: Doubloon (a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup..

Placard :: Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

Quindecemvir :: Quindecemvir (n.) One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.

Bovate :: Bovate (n.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres..

Sixteen :: Sixteen (n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

Ides :: Ides (n. pl.) The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months..

Quinzaine :: Quinzaine (n.) The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning..

Fifteen :: Fifteen (a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Phosphor-bronze :: Phosphor-bronze (n.) A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin..

Fives :: Fives (n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game..

Sixteen :: Sixteen (a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

Quindecylic :: Quindecylic (n.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid..

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