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95861 Etymology dictionary, p. duodecimo (n.).2
… in 12 leaves. Often abbreviated 12mo. Also "a book in which each page is the twelfth part of the printer's sheet." Related: Duodecimary .
95862 Etymology dictionary, p. Ebenezer.2
… vii.12).
95863 Etymology dictionary, p. ember-days (n.).2
… , Ymbren, 12 days of the year (divided into four seasonal periods, hence Medieval Latin name quatuor tempora ) set aside by the Church for fasting and prayers …
95864 Etymology dictionary, p. epact (n.).2
… of 12 moons;" from French épacte (12c.), from Late Latin epacta "an intercalary day," from Greek epakte (plural epaktai, in epaktai hemerai "intercalary days"), from …
95865 Etymology dictionary, p. Fort Sumter.2
… April 12, 1861.
95866 Etymology dictionary, p. grutch (v.).3
… iv:12].
95867 Etymology dictionary, p. herring (n.).3
… , Feb. 12, 1492, fought in defense of a convoy of provisions, mostly herrings and other "lenten stuffe."
95868 Etymology dictionary, p. hewer (n.).2
… ix:12. Old English has it as wuduheawerum and þam þe wæter beraþ; the modern form of the phrase is from 1535.
95869 Etymology dictionary, p. hour (n.).3
… the 12 equal parts of an artificial day (sunrise to sunset) or night, varying in duration according to the season; definite time of day or night reckoned in unequal …
95870 Etymology dictionary, p. Ishmael.2
… xvi.12. Related: Ishmaelite .
95871 Etymology dictionary, p. Jacob.3
… xxviii.12.
95872 Etymology dictionary, p. jury (n.).3
… (usually 12 to 23). Jury-box is from 1729; juryman from 1570s. Figurative phrase jury is still out "no decision has been made" is by 1903.
95873 Etymology dictionary, p. levy (n.2).2
1829, colloquial shortening of elevenpence (see eleven ). In U.S. before c. 1860, a Spanish real or an equivalent amount of some other money (about 12 and a half cents).
95874 Etymology dictionary, p. Lucifer.3
… xiv.12 — "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" [KJV] Because of the mention of a fall from Heaven, the verse was interpreted spiritually …
95875 Etymology dictionary, p. massive (adj.).3
… Jan. 12, 1954.
95876 Etymology dictionary, p. midnight (n.).2
… night, 12 o'clock at night," Old English mid-niht, or middre niht (with dative of adjective). See mid (adj.) + night. Compare similar formation in Old High German mittinaht …
95877 Etymology dictionary, p. moron (n.).3
… and 12;" used as an insult since 1922 and subsequently dropped from technical use. Linnæus had introduced morisis "idiocy."
95878 Etymology dictionary, p. NAACP.2
abbreviation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, first attested 1910. The organization was founded Feb. 12, 1909, as National Negro Committee.
95879 Etymology dictionary, p. Napoleon.3
… a 12-pound artillery piece, it is in use in U.S. military from 1857, from Napoleon III (1808-1873), under whose rule it was designed. As a type of boot, by 1860; as a card …
95880 Etymology dictionary, p. Nemean (adj.).2
… his 12 labors. The Nemean Games were one of the four great national festivals of the ancient Greeks. The victor's garland was made of parsley.