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Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note (Mus.), the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.

As the eighth in order.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

cord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

e value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

The eighth after the tenth.

rdinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

r, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins.

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for…

he diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and Diatonic. -- Major second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a difference in pitch of a step. -- Major sixth (Mus.), a sixth of four s…

One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] Bartlett.