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Consonancy :: Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth..

Pseudotetramera :: Pseudotetramera (n. pl.) A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints..

Sixth :: Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Quintile :: Quintile (n.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72�..

Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl..

Subduable :: Subdominant (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant..

G :: G () G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G/ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A..

Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Nineteenth :: Nineteenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Response :: Response (n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.

Flight-shot :: Flight-shot (n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile..

Drone :: Drone (v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth..

Pharyngeal :: Pharyngeal (n.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches..

Fifthly :: Fifthly (adv.) In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

Spondee :: Spondaical (a.) Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot..

Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method..

Leo :: Leo (n.) The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs..

Frank :: Frank (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France..

Quintilllion :: Quintilllion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

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