Dozens

dozens
    n 1: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she
         amassed stacks of newspapers" [syn: {tons}, {dozens},
         {heaps}, {lots}, {piles}, {scores}, {stacks}, {loads},
         {rafts}, {slews}, {wads}, {oodles}, {gobs}, {scads},
         {lashings}]
    

Dozen \Doz"en\ (d[u^]z"'n), n.; pl. {Dozen} (before another
   noun), {Dozens} (d[u^]z"'nz). [OE. doseine, dosein, OF.
   doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo
   two + decem ten. See {Two}, {Ten}, and cf. {Duodecimal}.]
   1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve;
      with or without of before the substantive which follows.
      "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to
      your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends."
      --Shak.
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   2. An indefinite small number. --Milton.
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   {A baker's dozen}, thirteen; -- called also a {long dozen}.
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