Definition of fourteen

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Fourteen (n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv..

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Ferret :: Ferret (n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes..
Stone :: Stone (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed..
Cracowes :: Cracowes (n. pl.) Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century..
Fourteen :: Fourteen (n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
Quatorzain :: Quatorzain (n.) A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
Leonid :: Leonid (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Apprenticeship :: Apprenticeship (n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one)..
Fourteenth :: Fourteenth (n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
Rochet :: Rochet (n.) A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Sonnet :: Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule..
Fourteen :: Fourteen (a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.
Fourteenth :: Fourteenth (n.) The octave of the seventh.
Fortnight :: Fortnight (n.) The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
Quatorze :: Quatorze (n.) The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points..
Black Death :: Black death () A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
Puberty :: Puberty (n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females..
Trouveur :: Trouveur (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
Tetradecane :: Tetradecane (n.) A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule..
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..
Reiter :: Reiter (n.) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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