Fĭf'teenth1, a.
a. [A-S. fifteódha. See supra.]
- Next in order after the fourteenth; the fifth after the tenth.
- Being one of fifteen equal parts into which a whole is divided.
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Fifteenth
Fif'teenth2, n.
n. 1. One of fifteen equal parts of a unit or whole; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
- A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, &c., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, &c., had been valued at. Burrill.
- (Mus.) (a.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diapason. (b.) An interval consisting of two octaves.