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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• 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.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• 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.
• Afterbirth
  The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
• After-mentioned
  Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
• Monthling
  That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
• Tenthmeter
  Alt. of Tenthmetre

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