Twelve

twelv, adj. ten and two.— n. the number next after eleven: the figures representing twelve: ( pl. ) same as duodecimo.— ns. Twelve′-mo , same as duodecimo, written 12mo; Twelve′-month , twelve months: a year.— adjs. Twelve′-penn′y , worth a shilling: trifling, insignificant; Twelve′score , twelve times twenty, or two hundred and forty.— n. twelve score yards, a common range in archery, used also in measurements.— Twelve-day writ , a writ in actions on bills, ., warning defendant to appear within twelve days, otherwise judgment would go against him; Twelve Tables , the name given to the earliest code of Roman law, civil, criminal, and religious, made by the decemvirs in 451-449 B.C. — Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs , a work of the 2d century after Christ, in which, on the model of Jacob's ble ing of the tribes in Genesis xlix., discourses and prophecies of Christ are put into the mouths of the fathers of Israel; The Twelve , the twelve apostles. [A.S. twelf (Ger. zwölf , and Goth. twa-lif ), that is 'two and ten' (for twá- , cf. Two ; and for -lif , cf. Eleven ).]