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The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects. Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Matt. xxv. 2.

A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.

Cinquefoil; five-finger.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

See Cinch (the game).

A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

More than; as, above five hundred were present.

is foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

gated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

ing a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one ampère of current; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.

without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.