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The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.

multiplied in some regular way; commonly, a table giving the products of the first ten or twelve numbers multiplied successively by 1, 2, 3, etc., up to 10 or 12.

and name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.

The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. [Written also obol.]

der Car. -- Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

ng-billed paradise birds (Epimachinæ) also include some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird (Seleucides alba), which is black, yellow, and white, with six long breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary. -- Paradise fish (Zoöl.), a b…

, an inferior civil officer, subordinate to the high constable. -- Petit jury, a jury of twelve men, impaneled to try causes at the bar of a court; -- so called in distinction from the grand jury. -- Petit larceny, the stealing of goods of, or under, a certain specified small value; -- opposed to grand larceny. The d…

A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.

To pay as one's personal tax. The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. Dryden.

An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve- rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar. [Obs.] "Twelve potguns of brass." Hakluyt.

A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. [Eng.] Blackstone.

e to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.

An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; - - denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1. Prime of the moon, the new moon at its first appearance.

rge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

ldren, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

ly Bucconidæ. They are small birds, usually with dull-colored and loose plumage, and have twelve tail feathers. See Barbet (b).

A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.