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15 words match “NINETY”

NINETY a. 3 definitions
Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
COLATITUDE n.
The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
COMBOLOIO n.
A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.
CRISP a.
laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.
DISCOUNT v.
or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
DRINK v.
To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.] And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. Taylor (1630. ) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. -- To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appr…
LONGILATERAL a.
lly, having the form of a long parallelogram. Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.
NINETIETH a. 2 definitions
Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.
NONAGENARIAN n.
A person ninety years old.
NORTH a.
lowing. See Following, a., 2. -- North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. -- North preceding. See Following, a., 2. -- North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in…
OBTUSE a.
ute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
RECTANGULAR a.
Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.
SQUARE n.
The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.]
TETRAGON n.
An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.
WATTLESS a.
t); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.