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Roundel :: Roundel (a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries..

Spurry :: Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings..

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

Cocoa Palm :: Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree..

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..

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

Condottiere :: Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest..

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..

Rial :: Rial (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Sampan :: Sampan (n.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters..

Mohur :: Mohur (n.) A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21..

Baselard :: Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century..

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

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

Bismer :: Bismer (n.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

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..

O :: O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre..

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

Yardland :: Yardland (n.) A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate..

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