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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.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.

Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

ct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.) above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things. Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.

its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

s liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

ck, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise.]

ge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

he barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.