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Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The interval of an octave.

Ninth :: Ninth (n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

Triolet :: Triolet (n.) A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth..

Octennial :: Octennial (a.) Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years..

Viking :: Viking (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries..

Ribbon :: Ribbon (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide..

Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

August :: August (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..

Endorse :: Endorse (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)..

Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

Octic :: Octic (n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.

Consonancy :: Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth..

Dram :: Dram (n.) 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..

Masora :: Masora (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries..

Octant :: Octant (n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.

Octic :: Octic (a.) Of the eighth degree or order.

Queen :: Queen (v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn..

Krishna :: Krishna (n.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu..

Octant :: Octant (n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant..

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