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   Fifth Lateran Council
         n 1: the council in 1512-1517 that published disciplinary
               decrees and planned (but did not carry out) a crusade
               against Turkey

English Dictionary: fifth wheel by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fifth wheel
n
  1. someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded [syn: fifth wheel, deadwood]
  2. an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
    Synonym(s): fifth wheel, spare
  3. a steering bearing that enables the front axle of a horse- drawn wagon to rotate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fifthly
adv
  1. in the fifth place; "fifthly, we must adhere to the rules set by the local government"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
five dollar bill
n
  1. a United States bill worth 5 dollars [syn: fiver, {five- spot}, five dollar bill]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
  
      4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form;
            a disk; an orb. --Milton.
  
      5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
  
                     According to the common vicissitude and wheel of
                     things, the proud and the insolent, after long
                     trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled
                     upon themselves.                                 --South.
  
                     [He] throws his steep flight in many an a[89]ry
                     wheel.                                                --Milton.
  
      {A wheel within a wheel}, [or] {Wheels within wheels}, a
            complication of circumstances, motives, etc.
  
      {Balance wheel}. See in the Vocab.
  
      {Bevel wheel}, {Brake wheel}, {Cam wheel}, {Fifth wheel},
      {Overshot wheel}, {Spinning wheel}, etc. See under {Bevel},
            {Brake}, etc.
  
      {Core wheel}. (Mach.)
            (a) A mortise gear.
            (b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden
                  cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear.
  
      {Measuring wheel}, an odometer, or perambulator.
  
      {Wheel and axle} (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or
            mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle,
            and used for raising great weights, by applying the power
            to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the
            weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called
            also {axis in peritrochio}, and {perpetual lever}, -- the
            principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the
            lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical
            powers}, under {Mechanical}.
  
      {Wheel animal}, or {Wheel animalcule} (Zo[94]l.), any one of
            numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the
            anterior end.
  
      {Wheel barometer}. (Physics) See under {Barometer}.
  
      {Wheel boat}, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water
            or upon inclined planes or railways.
  
      {Wheel bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hemipterous
            insect ({Prionidus cristatus}) which sucks the blood of
            other insects. So named from the curious shape of the
            prothorax.
  
      {Wheel carriage}, a carriage moving on wheels.
  
      {Wheel chains}, or {Wheel ropes} (Naut.), the chains or ropes
            connecting the wheel and rudder.
  
      {Wheel cutter}, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear
            wheels; a gear cutter.
  
      {Wheel horse}, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as
            opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also
            {wheeler}.
  
      {Wheel lathe}, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels.
  
      {Wheel lock}.
            (a) A letter lock. See under {Letter}.
            (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a
                  flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel.
            (c) A kind of brake a carriage.
  
      {Wheel ore} (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the
            shape of its twin crystals. See {Bournonite}.
  
      {Wheel pit} (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the
            lower part of the fly wheel runs.
  
      {Wheel plow}, or {Wheel plough}, a plow having one or two
            wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate
            the depth of the furrow.
  
      {Wheel press}, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced
            on, or off, their axles.
  
      {Wheel race}, the place in which a water wheel is set.
  
      {Wheel rope} (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under {Tiller}.
  
      {Wheel stitch} (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's
            web, worked into the material, and not over an open space.
            --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).
  
      {Wheel tree} (Bot.), a tree ({Aspidosperma excelsum}) of
            Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a
            transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a
            coarsely made wheel. See {Paddlewood}.
  
      {Wheel urchin} (Zo[94]l.), any sea urchin of the genus
            {Rotula} having a round, flat shell.
  
      {Wheel window} (Arch.), a circular window having radiating
            mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose
            window}, under {Rose}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fifth \Fifth\, a. [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. f[c6]fta. See {Five}.]
      1. Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
  
      2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
  
      {Fifth monarchy men} (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of
            the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there
            would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ
            would reign on earth a thousand years.
  
      {Fifth wheel}, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore
            axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an
            extended support to prevent careening.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fifthly \Fifth"ly\, adv.
      In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Fifty Lakes, MN (city, FIPS 21032)
      Location: 46.74876 N, 94.09596 W
      Population (1990): 299 (517 housing units)
      Area: 75.2 sq km (land), 11.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56448
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