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To grow upward; to attain a certain heght; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

Rubiaceæ) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone pe…

the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.

(Sapindaceæ), including the (Typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera.

solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable…

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old. -- n.

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

reek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.

him in his own hearing. Shak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. Bp. Wilkins.

Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.