eighty

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eighty - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Eighty \Eight"y\, a. [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is
     akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See Eight, and Ten.]
     Eight times ten; fourscore.
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  Eighty \Eight"y\, n.
     1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
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     2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times
        repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
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eighty - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eighty
      adj 1: being ten more than seventy [syn: eighty, 80, lxxx,
             fourscore]
      n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
           [syn: eighty, 80, LXXX, fourscore]