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Definition of Twelves
1. twelve [n] - See also: twelve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twelves
Literary usage of Twelves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"6 leaves : A—К 6 in twelves : the Synagogue, A—С 10 in twelves. ... 12°, А—К 6
in twelves: Synagogue, A—С in twelves : Life of Herbert, А—С 4 in twelves. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"340 By imposing a sheet of twelves in this manner, the first signature of the
... 341 I give this arrangement of the pages of two half sheets of twelves to ..."
3. Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early by William Carew Hazlitt (1887)
"A, 2 leaves: B—L 6 in twelves. With plates numbered A to T. England's ... 12°,
A—K in twelves, besides a frontispiece containing a portrait of Charles II. ..."
4. The Philosophy of Arithmetic as Developed from the Three Fundamental by Edward Brooks (1880)
"QC ft units, and n units are 28 units, or 2 twelves and 8 units; writing the
units, and carrying 2 to the column of twelves, we have 2 twelves and 5 twelves ..."
5. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Twell, Twells, twelves. — Local, 'at the well,' from residence thereby. ...
The final s in Twells and twelves isthe pen iti ve form; cf. Jennings. ..."
6. The Library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Modern English Literature by William Andrews Clark, Robert Ernest Cowan, Cora Edgerton Sanders, Harrison Post (1920)
"COLLATION: Volume I. Tide as above, one leaf (verso blank); Advertisement, one
unnumbered leaf; Text, Bi-[Ki i], in twelves, pp. [i]- Volume II. ..."
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