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ing the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law…

A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.

One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love. Tatler.

per with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. -- Pine weevil (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of weevils whose larvæ bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in both Europe and Ameri…

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.

us our demands. Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak.

ed; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening. Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water. Sir W. Raleigh.

See Poteen.

before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

ns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

, the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; c…