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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

ts and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

N, the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it us…

boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

mall circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.