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Overtone
air which yields the fundamental tone one of the natural harmonic scale of tones as the octave twelfth fifteenth etc an aliquot or ldquopartialrdquo tone a harmonic See Harmonic and Tone
Omicron
Lit the little or short O o the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet
Disdiapason
An interval of two octaves or a fifteenth called also bisdiapason Compare diapason1
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Condottiere
A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who sold his services and those of his followers to any party in any contest
Baselard
A short sword or dagger worn in the fifteenth century
Charities, or Public Trusts
relief or redemption of prisoners or captives; and aid or ease of any poor inhabitants, concerning payments of fifteenths, setting out of soldiers, and other taxes.' These are the words of the preamble to 43 Eliz. C.
Land-tax
the former methods of taxing either property or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenth or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hydages, scutages, or talliages. Although generally a charge upon a landlord, yet it is a
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