a. [ OE. twelve, twelf, AS. twelf; akin to OFries. twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. tōlf, Sw. tolf, Dan. tolv, Goth. twalif, from the root of E. two + the same element as in the second part of E. eleven. See Two, and Eleven. ] One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. [ 1913 Webster ]
Twelve-men's morris.
Twelve Tables. (Rom. Antiq.)
n.
The Twelve (Script.),
a. & n. See Duodecimo. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A year which consists of twelve calendar months. [ 1913 Webster ]
I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. & a. Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty. [ 1913 Webster ]