Word Meanings - THIRTEENTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

• Ordinalism
  The state or quality of being ordinal.
• Twelfth-night
  The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
• THIRDBOROUGH
  An under constable. Shak. Johnson.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Twelfth-second
  A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.
• THIRDPENNY
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Tenthly
  In a tenth manner.
• Twelfthtide
  The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.
• THIRDRAILSYSTEM
  A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Monthling
  That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
• Tenthmeter
  Alt. of Tenthmetre
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• TWELFTHCAKE
  An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

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