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Timber :: Timber (n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer..

Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..

Pistareen :: Pistareen (n.) An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Furlong :: Furlong (a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club..

Average :: Average (v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length..

Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..

Tod :: Tod (n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds..

Apprenticeship :: Apprenticeship (n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one)..

Twentieth :: Twentieth (a.) Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided..

March :: March (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles..

Keel :: Keel (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt..

Nineteen :: Nineteen (a.) Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months..

Sheaf :: Sheaf (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four..

Kin :: Kin (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings..

Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..

Scorpio :: Scorpio (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs..

Kenning :: Kenning (v. t.) The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles..

Lap :: Lap (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2..

Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

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