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A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

ts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

d of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostr…

The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

y man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

y parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

ies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. Price. Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay.

corum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott.

culifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela or Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.