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ds, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains. S. W. Williams.

udes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.

The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

ge; the Norman conquest. Norman style (Arch.), a style of architecture which arose in the tenth century, characterized by great massiveness, simplicity, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arch, heavy round columns, and a great variety of ornaments, among which the zigzag and spiral or cable-formed ornaments…

The tenth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah. Ex. xvi. 36.

divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient. An homer is the tenth part of an ephah. Ex. xvi. 36. A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward. Shak.

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

red was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.

of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.

il War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.

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

The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.