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notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.…

The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. --Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.

A fifteenth part. [Obs.]

A fifteenth. [Obs.] Prynne.

The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning. [Written also quinzain.]

A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.

for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. Macaulay.

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

ate of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

rent in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.

hield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

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

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

, as the great Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira Kempferi), measuring sometimes more than fifteen feet across the legs when they are extended. -- Spider fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of parasitic dipterous insects of the family Hippoboscidæ. They are mostly destitute of wings, and live among the feathers of…

of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.