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Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

rtals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. Pope. Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

ans. Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia des…

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonanat, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a more hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh,…

A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.