HUNDRED

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak.

2.
n.

A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.

3.
a.

Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.


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