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Hundred :: Hundred (n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen..

Rent :: Rent (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year..

Thousandth :: Thousandth (a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing..

Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..

Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..

Madrepora :: Madrepora (n.) A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched..

Queening :: Queening (n.) Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago..

Round :: Round (a.) Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers..

Centime :: Centime (n.) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

Hectometre :: Hectometre (n.) A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet..

Centare :: Centare (n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards..

Hundredweight :: Hundredweight (n.) 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 ton, being the legal ton..

Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..

Centuplicate :: Centuplicate (a.) To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.

Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..

Seven-thirties :: Seven-thirties (n. pl.) A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded..

Typhoean :: Typhoean (a.) Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f//s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus..

Fangot :: Fangot (n.) A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight..

Amerce :: Amerce (v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars..

Solanum :: Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade..

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