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him it had been preferable to be sick.] Fabian. For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. Chaucer.

A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]

side of, younger than; of fewer years than. And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers. Tennyson. To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley…

a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. Bacon.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours.

mall rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

Having twenty equal sides or faces.

A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces. Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangules meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

A Linnæan class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

e was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

ludes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. The whole included race, his purposed prey. Milton. The loss of such a lord includes all harm. Shak.

a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third; as, twenty-five are incongruous with respect to four.

The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

fter death. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.