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The person or thing in the fifth position.

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One of five equal parts of a whole.

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The fifth gear of an engine.

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A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).

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The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor scale)

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The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

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To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.

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To divide by 5, equates to multiplying a denominator by 5

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The ordinal form of the number five.

The fifth of November was the first day of what is called the battle of Krasnoe.

After the fifth, she was certain she'd dreamt it all up.

And several of the men went over to the Fifth Company.

The fifth man was the factory lad in the loose cloak.

She picked the receiver up on the fifth ring.

Besides the Bezukhov family, Nicholas' old friend the retired General Vasili Dmitrich Denisov was staying with the Rostovs this fifth of December.

To make matters worse, today was the fifth anniversary of the day Alexia was born – and died.

The fifth demon had finished him off by crushing his skull and taking his soul.

Young Donnie munched on his fourth or fifth muffin, ignored by and ignoring his stepfather.

His curiosity and agitation, like that of the whole crowd, reached the highest pitch at this fifth murder.

I feel like a fifth wheel here, and there is so much to do at home.

A fifth appeared, as in Sofi's vision, and tried to push the door closed.

The whole endowment was in 1535 worth some £ 200 a year, about a fifth of that of Winchester College.

On the 9th of December the fifth Lateran council, which had been reopened by Leo in April, ratified the peace with Louis XII.

When, as occasionally happened, a fifth was added, this was placed on the breast just below the neck opening.

These dukes all bore the name of Godfrey (Godefroy) and the fifth of them was the great crusader.

Two-fifths of the land belongs to the state, and two-fifths more to the various communes; the remaining fifth is minutely subdivided among a large number of small proprietors, many of whom have been expropriated from inability to pay the taxes, which, considering the low value of the land, are too heavy; while the state is unable to let a large proportion of its lands.

In the fifth crusade (1218-1221) he was a prominent figure.

The fifth edition (1840) was thoroughly revised.

This supposition receives some support from the manner in which the fifth part is spoken of in the Novum Organum, i.

Sabbatai's father (Mordecai) was the Smyrna agent for an English house, and often heard of the expectations of the English Fifth Monarchy men.

Jade was there, another man with Kris's eyes but whom she didn't recognize, and a fifth man.

Maybe he felt the need to provide the fifth.

First toe represented by a minute rudiment of a metacarpal bone; the fourth by a metacarpal and two small phalanges without a claw, and not reaching the middle of the metacarpal of the third; fifth entirely absent.

For the fifth time, in 1174, Frederick entered his rebellious dominions.

The fifth canon provides that those, whether clerics or laymen, who are cut off from communion in any particular province are not to be admitted thereto elsewhere.

The fifth oecumenical council came nearest to so doing, in the case of Vigilius.

The fifth canon of the council of Macon, in 584, forbids clergy to dress like laymen and imposes a penalty of thirty days' imprisonment on bread and water; but this may be merely penitential.

The fifth Nikaya is a miscellaneous collection of treatises, mostly very short, on a variety of subjects.

Of the Lenten fast or Quadragesima, the first mention is in the fifth canon of the council of Nicaea (325), and from this time it is frequently referred to, but chiefly as a season of preparation for baptism, of absolution of penitents or of retreat and recollection.

Of the metatarsals the fifth occurs as an embryonic vestige near the joint; the first is reduced to its distal portion, and is, with the hallux, shoved on to the inner and posterior side of the foot, at least in the majority of birds.

Reduction of the number of toes (the fifth shows no traces whatever, not even in Archaeopteryx) begins with the hallux, which is completely or partly absent in many birds; the second toe is absent in Struthio only.

A fifth had fallen in a lost battle, and only one had died in peace in his own house.

William Howard, Viscount Stafford, was the fifth son of Thomas, earl of Arundel, and grandson of Philip the prisoner.

Marrying the sister and heir of the fifth Lord Stafford, who died in 1637, he and his wife were created Baron and Baroness Stafford by a patent of 1640, with remainder, in default of heirs male, to heirs female.

A half, fifth and tenth of a peso are coined in silver, in addition to bronze coins.

The fifth and last book takes up the question of man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and, by an exposition of the nature of God, attempts to show that these doctrines are not subversive of each other; and the conclusion is drawn that God remains a foreknowing spectator of all events, and the ever-present eternity of his vision agrees with the future quality of our actions, dispensing rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked.

He thinks that the variations in the inscriptions of the fifth treatise, which is not found in the best manuscript, are so great that the name of Boetius could not have originally been in the title.

He infers, from these facts, that there is no sure evidence for the authorship of the fourth and fifth treatises.

The fifth treatise is Contra Eutychen et Nestorium.

For administrative purposes the country is divided into four counties, Montserrado, Basa, Sino and Maryland, but Cape Mount in the far west and the district round it has almost the status of a fifth county.

Hinduism, which was once the religion of Java, but has been extinct there for four centuries, is still in vogue in the islands of Bali and Lombok, where the cruel custom of widow-burning (suttee) is still practised, and the Hindu system of the four castes, with a fifth or Pariah caste (called Chandala), adhered to.

Finally a fifth depression, which descends below the level of the ocean, extends for more than zoo m.

Thus, while one village would produce nothing but felt shoes, another would carve sacred images (ikons), and a third spin flax only, a fourth make wooden spoons, a fifth nails, a sixth iron chains, and so on.

The fifth, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, also without date, is entitled the "Fyfte Eglog of Alexandre Barclay of the Cytezen and the uplondyshman" and is also based on Mantuan.

The fourth volume, partly written in 1782, was completed in June 1784; the preparation of the fifth volume occupied less than two years; while the sixth and last, begun 18th May 1786, was finished in thirteen months.

Biisgen that the sweet secretion (honey-dew) of the aphids is not derived, as generally believed, from the paired cornicles on the fifth abdominal segment, but from the intestine, whence it exudes in drops and is swallowed by the ants.

Among the Brazilian states it is fifth in size and first in population-3,184,099 in 1890, and 3,594,47 1 in 1900.

In the fifth of his early essays he asserted that the method a priori is the only mode of investigation in the social sciences, and that the method a posteriori "is altogether inefficacious in those sciences as a means of arriving at any considerable body of valuable truth."

The monophysite monks appealed to his authority, but could not prevent Justinian and the fifth oecumenical council at Constantinople (553) from anathematizing his teaching.