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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.

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.

ng with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron.

, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl. Rowe. Patriotic butloyal men went away disguested afresh with the impracticable arrogance of a sovereign. Palfrey.

burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. A thick of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11.

To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.] They went to coach and their horse inclose. Chapman.

udes 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.

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

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

often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

that join house to house. Is. v. 8. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined. Shak. Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. Dryden.

elebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty- five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.…