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In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

in which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Consisting of two hundred years.

ying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable. Bacon.

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

y call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

Rate by the hundred; percentage.

A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1

Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n.

Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

Once in a hundred years.

Hundredth. -- n.

The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.