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n; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

ting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

d by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.

llar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.] Jamieson. Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] -- Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strai…

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. Cowper.

he rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. -- Unit of measure (as of length, surface, volume, dry measure, liquid measure, money, weight, time, and the like), in general, a determinate quantity or magnitude of the kind designated, taken as a standard of…

The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue. Fairhol…

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

est or minister, and followed by a response from the people. The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles. Strype.

A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres. [Obs.] T. Warton.

. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.