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

A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.

A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

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

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

nd money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.

A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts. Tylor.

The act of putting to death every twentieth man. [R.]