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the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.

A solid having twelve faces.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

Having twelve columns in front. -- n.

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak.

to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

s. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.

Consisting of twelve years. [R.] Ash.

Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves. -- Du`o*dec"i*mal*ly, adv.

Divided into twelve parts.