Definitions

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  • adjective Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty.

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  • noun archaic One hundred and eighty.

Etymologies

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nine +‎ score

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Examples

  • Behind the players rode the majority of lancers, ninescore or so.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • And she replied, 'The sun rises in the Eastern hemisphere and sets in the Western, and each hemisphere comprises ninescore degrees.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • I have several poetic trifles, which I shall gladly leave with Miss Nimmo, or you, if they were worth house room; as there are scarcely two people on earth by whom it would mortify me more to be forgotten, though at the distance of ninescore miles.

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • First, here's young Master Rash; he's in for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not much in request, for the old women were all dead.

    Measure for Measure 1604

  • First, here’s young Master Rash; he’s in for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not much in request, for the old women were all dead.

    Measure for Measure 2004

  • "We'll keep those, and I want you and the captains to sign a paper saying that we found and dumped into the river the other ninescore blades.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

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