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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..

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..

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

Quindecagon :: Quindecagon (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides..

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

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..

Quindism :: Quindism (n.) A fifteenth.

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

Reiter :: Reiter (n.) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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

Fifteen :: Fifteen (n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century..

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at..

Quadrillion :: Quadrillion (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

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

Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

Pentadecane :: Pentadecane (n.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule..

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

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

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

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