Search the Dictionary

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.

A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak.

A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

ins of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.

The eighth after the tenth.

Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

nters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] Locke.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26

Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.

aving, by ukases of grace, relinquished her imperialities on the private mines, viz., the tenths of the copper, iron, silver and gold. W. Tooke.

. J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar. Whitworth.