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- noun Plural form of
fourteenth .
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Finally, Margaret describes the 19th century Parisian phenomenon of "fourteenths" -- hired men who "waited at home between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. every night all dressed up and ready to step into the breach where any dinner party threatened suddenly to number 13."
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Sushi for dinner -- tuna so good we got seconds, and salmon so good I got fourteenths.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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Coincidentally, our Empire Club head table today numbers 13; one of those standby fourteenths might have been a useful addition!
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Thus, the paper on which I write, the whole sheet being taken, and the creases made by joining opposite corners, happens to give the angle of the creases very close to three-fourteenths of a revolution; so that fourteen repetitions of the angle is the lowest number which give an exact number of revolutions; and a very few cuttings lead to a regular polygon of fourteen sides.
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It was to be apportioned, thereafter, according to the number of white persons under the age of ten years, "together with five-fourteenths of the said [colored] population between the ages of ten and twenty-four years."
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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The estimate of the minimum amount of power that can be developed on the Niagara River above and including the Falls is 5,800,000 h.p., and the assumed maximum is 6,500,000 h.p. The treaty, therefore, limits present possible minimum development on both sides of the Falls to 1,450,000 h.p. Under the treaty only five-fourteenths of the power made available thereby belongs to the
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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That is, thirteen-fourteenths of Mark, four-sevenths of Matthew, and two-fifths of Luke are taken up in describing the same things in very similar language.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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The height of the atmosphere is therefore not less than three-fourteenths of the radius of the planet, and may be much greater.
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Now, one-fourteenth of five miles is five-fourteenths of one mile -- about one third of a mile -- the increase of the current.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Abraham Lincoln 1837
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Now, one-fourteenth of five miles is five-fourteenths of one mile -- about one third of a mile -- the increase of the current.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837
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