- Just outside top 3 - Last bridge player takes two pairs and heart from Nathan - Quarter - Twenty-five per cent - Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. - Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be
divided. - One of four equal parts into which one whole may be
divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in
order after the third.
- Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing
six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after
five and payable in twenty years.
- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of
carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When
the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a
granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely
used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig
iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.
- 0 2 as a fraction - 0.2 as a fraction - 20 percent - Fourth, ..., sixth - Next after the fourth - Twenty per cent of an amendment? - Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
- Deduction from the usual cost - Reduce to a solution - Reduction in price - To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to
make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per
cent for prompt payment of bills. - To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance
for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. - To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and
form conclusions concerning (an event). - To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- A variety of bronze possessing great hardness,
elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin
phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five
to fifteen per cent of tin.
- A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods,
at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their
invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or
number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.