Twelfth"-cake` (-kk`), n. An ornamented cake distributed among friends
or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.
Twelfth"-day` (?), n. See Twelfthtide.
Twelfth"-night` (?), n. The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day
after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
Twelfth"-sec`ond (?), n. (Physics) A unit for the measurement of small
intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make
one second.
Twelfth"tide` (?), n. The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; —
called also Twelfth-day.
Twelve (?), a. [OE. twelve, twelf, AS. twelf; akin to OFries. twelf,
twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel.
t&?;lf, 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.
Twelve-men's morris. See the Note under Morris. — Twelve Tables. (Rom.
Antiq.) See under Table.
Twelve, n. 1. The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two,
or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.