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See Poteen.

A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.

Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

See Sextodecimo.

Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.

Same as Steinbock.

A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well. [Written also steaning.]

A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.

One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

the notion of more than the usual number or more than I would like; -- "I've told you umpteen times not to do that." umpteenth. Ordinal of umpteen, with corresponding signification.

A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.

o an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

ve. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.