Word Meanings - TWELVESCORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.

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• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• FORTY
  Four times ten; thirtynine and one more. (more info) four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutiu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidw. See
• FORTY-SPOT
  The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
• HUNDREDER
  A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of
• TWENTY
  twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. 1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• TWELVEPENCE
  A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.
• TIMESAVING
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• FORTY-NINER
  One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut.
• TWELVESCORE
  Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
• HUNDRED
  hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant,
• TWENTY-FOURMO
  Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n.
• TWENTYFOLD
  Twenty times as many.
• TWELVEMONTH
  A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.
• HUNDREDTH
  1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds
• HUNDREDFOLD
  A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• THUNDROUS
  Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.
• CHILTERN HUNDREDS
  A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• OFTTIMES
  Frequently; often. Milton.