Definition of fifteenth

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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..

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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..
Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..
Baselard :: Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century..
Picard :: Picard (n.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
Quinzaine :: Quinzaine (n.) The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning..
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 (a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
Quindism :: Quindism (n.) A fifteenth.
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..
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..
Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
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..
Placard :: Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later..
Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
Ides :: Ides (n. pl.) The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months..
Libertine :: Libertine (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women..
Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
Quindem :: Quindem (n.) A fifteenth part.
Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..
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