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

Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.

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..

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

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

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

Grampus :: Grampus (n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii..

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

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

Beagle :: Beagle (n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix..

Taborite :: Taborite (n.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles..

Virgate :: Virgate (n.) A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres..

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

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..

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