eightadj.n.

Brit.

/eɪt/, U.S.

/eɪt/

Forms: α. Old English ahta, eahta, æhte, Middle English ehte, ( Orm.) ehhte, Middle English æhte, eahte, Middle English eyȝt(e, eiȝ-, eih-, eyhte, (Middle English eȝte, eyth), Middle English–1500s eyght(e, (Middle English eheit, heyt, eyt, ȝit(t, Middle English eght, eyȝthe), 1500s– eight. β. Middle English acht, aght, aȝt(e, aht(e, Scottish auht(e, Middle English Scottish awcht, Middle English– Scottish aucht, 1500s– Scottish aught.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic and Aryan: Old English ahta, eahta, æhte, Northumbrian æhto, = Old Frisian achta, achte, acht, Old Saxon ahto (Dutch acht), Old High German ahto (Middle High German ahte, modern German acht), Old Norse (*ahta) átta (Swedish åtta, Danish otte), Gothic ahtau; compare Latin octo, Greek ὀκτώ, Old Irish ocht, Lithuanian asztůnì, Sanskrit ashtáu.

The cardinal numeral next after seven, represented by the symbols 8 or viii.

A. adj.

a. With modified noun expressed.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun]

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [adjective]

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > eight things, persons, etc.

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OE Beowulf 1035 Heht ða..eahta mearas..on flet teon.

a1000 Menologium (Gr.) 95 Þæs emb ahta and nigon Dogera rimes.

1070 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) Turold abbot and æhte siþe twenti Frencisce men mid him.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4327 Rihht ehhte siþe an hunndredd.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 13 Þis boc ich to deale on achte destincciuns.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1810) 385 As in þe ȝer of grace a þousend ȝer yt was And four score & eyȝte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 188 He heled on al vnfere þat seke was thritte and aht yeir.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. viii. 104 Aucht hundyr wynter and seventy.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 523 Aucht hundreth armyt, I trow, thai weir.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 210 I shall make them to be accompanyed of eyghte erles.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiv. f. 48 In eyght the fyrste yeres of his empire.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 10 In the year of God j^m. v^c. twantie aucht yeiris.

1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 23 Summers three times eight save one She had told.

1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 182 The Bard..strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year.

a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 83 Twa times aught bannacks in a heap.

1885 R. S. Ball Story of Heavens 146 An interval of eight years.

b. (an) eight days = a week.

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the world > time > period > a week > [noun]

weekeOE

sennightOE

seven daysOE

weekOE

seven days and seven nightsOE

(an) eight daysc1160

a week of daysa1382

week1398

sennight dayc1425

septimane1450

seventh night1567

sennight space1599

hebdomad1600

septuary1646

heptad1876

c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xx. 26 Efter ehte [c1000 eahta] dagen hys leorning-cnihtes wæren inne.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 45 Naȝt uor ane monþe ne to eȝte dayes: ac ine one zelue day.

1611 Bible (King James) Luke ix. 28 About an eight dayes after these sayings.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva Eight days after prick them forth at distances.

a. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from context.

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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 249 Al þe world adrenchte. buten achte iþen arche.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13227 Þer æhte [c1300 Otho eahte] þer niȝene.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 84 Þe date was a þousand & fourscore & auhte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1927 Ȝou ȝitt haue I forborn..My brode benesoun I ȝou ȝyue.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 331 Þis meyny of aȝte I schal saue of monnez saulez.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. x. 521 For awcht or ten In comowne prys sawld wes þen.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 18 We! aght, aght, and neyn, and ten is this.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 161 b Our Lords beatitudes.. ar rakened aught in number as follouis.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 84 Eight that were left to make a purer world.

b. esp. With omission of hours; as eight o'clock, etc.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 197 His eyes were set at eight i'th morning.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 188 Let him be sent for to morrow eight a clocke to haue amends.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 263. ⁋1 I went to see him..about Eight a Clock in the Evening.

1891 N.E.D. at Eight Mod. We breakfast at eight.

c. Prosody. in eight and six (four, etc.): in lines alternately consisting of those numbers of syllables. See B. 2d.

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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 22 It shall be written in eight and six .

d. piece of eight n. at piece n. 16b.

3. Coupled with a higher cardinal or ordinal numeral following, so as to form a compound (cardinal or ordinal) numeral.

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1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 485 The eight and fortieth Chapter abideth in the exposition of the same text.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 332 Euery yeare, vppon the eight and twenty day of August, they obserue a solemn feast.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. iv. 53 D—n your eight-and-twenties!

B. n.

1. The abstract number eight.

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxi. 1359 Oon ydo to seuene maketh the nombre of eighte.

1808 Wilford in Asiatic Res. (London ed.) 8 289 Seven is a fortunate number among the Hindus: eight among the Baudd'hists.

2. A set of eight persons or things.

a. Cards. A card marked with eight pips.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > number card > others

twoa1500

cater1519

single ten1595

ten1595

eight1598

four1599

nine1599

six1599

seven1656

deuce1674

five1674

trey1680

spot1830

four-spot1878

two-spot1885

five-spot1913

ten-spot ladybird-

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Otto, the number of eight, an eight vpon the cards.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiv. 127 Then he plays his eight of Hearts.

b. The crew of a rowing boat, consisting of eight oarsmen; a boat for eight oarsmen. the Eights: boat-races at the University of Oxford and elsewhere between the boats of the different colleges, which take place in the Summer Term; also the (..) eight: the eight-oar crew of any society chosen to represent it in races. Hence Eights Week.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > crew of 4- or 8-oared boat

eight1847

four1861

trial eight1873

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for specific number of rowers

a pair of oars1598

ten1642

four-oar1844

pair-oar1853

six-oar1856

two-oar1857

four1861

sixern1866

gig-pair1869

pair1885

eight1898

1847 Illustr. London News 28 Aug. 142/1 I rowed in a fairish ‘eight’.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. i. 6 He..could not be persuaded to be one of the University eight.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 6/1 (Oxf. Notes) Tomorrow the eights week will come to an end.

1896 Daily News 20 Jan. 5/1 After leaving..Oxford, where he rowed in the eight, he took a curacy at Fulham.

1898 S. Le Blanc-Smith in W. A. Morgan The ‘House’ on Sport 302 It is more difficult to obtain eight such men than to obtain four, added to which the eight being the heavier boat..greater rigidity is necessitated in the thowl-pin.

1908 Daily Chron. 21 May 4/6 Oxford has every right to distinguish her annual inter-college races..as ‘The Eights’.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson vi. 81 Isn't it a lovely day for the Eights?

1926 J. Buchan in Mod. Short Stories, Far Islands 196 In his first year he rowed seven in the Eight.

1955 Times 6 June 7/7 I noticed in your issue of May 30 your Eights Week chart... You record a double overbump... I should like to know whether this feat has ever been accomplished before in Eights?

1955 Times 25 July 3/6 Beaumont College, who won their juniors at Molesey a week ago, followed it up by winning the junior-senior eights.

1962 Times 13 Feb. 4/6 They have offered to build a racing eight by the hot~moulded effort.

c. Bibliography. in eights: an expression indicating the number of leaves in a sheet of an early printed book.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [adverb] > in octavo

in octavo1582

in eights1858

1858 Lowndes Bibliogr. Man. at Caxton It [the Cronicles] terminates on the recto of Y 6 in eights.

1884 W. Gregor in J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus Introd. p. xxxi It is a quarto, and consists of A to I in eights.

1891 Catal. of Bibles, Liturgy, Church Hist. & Theol. (Bernard Quaritch) 53 The book is composed of 32 quires, in eights, except the first quire..which is in six. Thus a complete copy should contain 254 leaves.

d. Metre. in eights: in lines of eight syllables. So in eights and sixes (fours, etc.): in alternate lines of those lengths. Chiefly said of hymns.

3. The figure (8) representing this number; hence anything in the form of an 8; esp. a figure made on the ice in skating. Also figure (of) eight; sometimes attributive.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > thing or part in other curved shapes

heart1446

scutule1592

figure (of) eight1607

parenthesis1608

scallop1609

curvilineal1636

stirrup1684

pelecoid1706

shield1849

pretzel1919

jug handle1955

society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > figure > specific

figure (of) eight1607

do-se-do1929

1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring sig. C1 All our Courses are but Figures of 8.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Epic in Poems (new ed.) II. 1 Cutting eights that day upon the pond.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 626 The thrice-repeated eight, the eight hundred and eighty and eight.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 1 What is a figure of eight knot used for?

1876 A. Arnold Persia in Contemp. Rev. June 42 One is surprised to see a European cutting figures of eight upon frozen pools.

1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 255 They danced a figure 8 chain.

4. A shoe of the eighth size.

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1913 G. Page Where Strange Roads (ed. 14) ix. 79 My wife takes large eight's in shoes.

5. Slang phrase one over the eight: one alcoholic drink too many. (Cf. one pron. 15b(b).)

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > drunk [phrase]

the malt is above the meal (rarely wheat, bere, water)1546

one over the eight1925

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 88 One over the eight, one drink too many. Slightly intoxicated, the presumption being that an average ‘moderate’ man can safely drink eight glasses of beer.

1928 Daily Express 3 Aug. 7/4 Luton magistrate: What does he mean by ‘one over the eight’? (‘A glass too many’?)

Compounds

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eight-angled adj.

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1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liii. §523 A Dye, four-square, (though six-sided, and eight angled).

eight-celled adj.

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1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 521 The neck appears to form..an eight-celled rosette.

eight-manned adj.

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1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 6/4 A woman riding one among seven men on an eight-manned wheel.

eight-oared adj.

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1874 K. H. Digby Temple of Memory iii. 41 Their eight-oar'd crew felt quite in Heav'n.

1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 305 Now began that most pathetic spectacle, the finish of a beaten eight-oared crew.

eight-rowed adj.

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1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 24 The Pickwacket corn, an early eight-rowed variety.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 431 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A small variety of eight-rowed corn.

1944 Burpee's Seeds 26 If you want the best and sweetest for your table, it's true 8-rowed Golden Bantam.

eight-sided adj.

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1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 133 A series of double eight-sided pyramids might result from class h, i, and k.

eight-spoked adj.

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1884 F. Krohn tr. G. Glaser de Cew Magneto- & Dynamo-electr. Machines 33 The armature consists of an eight-spoked wheel.

eight threaded adj.

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1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxviii. 6) 536 Some will have it, that [the Hebrew word Maschzar]..signifies eight thredded Linen.

eight-wheeled adj.

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1906 Daily Chron. 1 Mar. 7/2 Eight-wheeled first and third-class carriages.

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a. Combined with nouns forming adjectives of dimension, etc.

eight-bore adj.

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1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 23 For flight-shooting, an 8-bore [gun] is as large as is advantageous, and a 10 is sufficiently small.

eight-inch adj.

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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 660 His patent locomotive engine, with two eight-inch cylinders, weighs five tons.

1860 All Year Round 15 Sept. 548 The cost of an eight-inch cast-iron gun..is about a hundred pounds.

eight-line adj.

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1864 W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry IV. 19 In four eight-line stanzas.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Eight-line Pica. A type whose face has eight times the length of pica.

eight-ounce adj.

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1886 Outing 8 161/1 On one side an eight-ounce rod, a thread of silk [etc.].

eight-penny adj.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices

sixpenny1591

fourpenny1597

eight-penny1598

twelvepenny1609

six-shilling1631

ninepenny1632

seven1643

threepenny1698

sevenpenny1712

fivepenny1799

shilling gallery1801

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 104 A trifle, some eight penie matter.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Eight pieces of Eight-peny taffaty Ribon.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Nails of sorts..8, 10, 24, 30, and 40-penny nails.

eight-and-sixpenny n.

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1906 Baroness von Hutten What became of Pam i. ii The new hat, an eight-and-sixpenny confection from the Tottenham Court Road.

eight-bearer adj.

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1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 7/2 An eight-bearer yellow chair.

eight-company adj.

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1900 Daily News 26 June 3/5 An eight-company battalion.

eight-dog adj.

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1876 Coursing Cal. 56 An eight-dog stake was added to the card in the evening.

eight-pointer n. [pointer n. 15a]

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1909 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/5 A good eight-pointer, weighing over 15 stone.

eight-wheeler n.

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1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/1 A special mail train consisting of twelve eight-wheelers.

eight-yarder n.

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1930 Morning Post 17 June 14/7 He holed an eight-yarder for a 2 at the sixth.

eight-day adj.

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1850 E. B. Browning Poems I. 293 An eight-day watch had watchëd she.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xviii. 278 Little eight-day-old Venetians.

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eight-box system n. a system of voting in South Carolina.

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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 732/2 In order to restrict the ignorant negro vote,..the General Assembly in 1882 instituted an electoral system which enforces an educational qualification by requiring the voter (who is secluded) to select his ticket himself and deposit it in the appropriate box. The system has become known as the ‘Eight-Box’ system, and has been imitated in other states.

eight-coupled adj. having eight coupled wheels.

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1893 English Mechanic 14 Apr. 181/1 (heading) Eight-coupled goods engines.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 7/3 One of the standard eight-coupled goods engines.

1904 C. S. Lake Locomotive 60 Goods engines with eight-coupled wheels.

eight-day clock n. a clock that goes for eight days without winding up.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock

watch-clock1592

German clock1598

quarter clocka1631

wheel-clock1671

table clocka1684

month clock1712

astronomical clock1719

musical clock1721

repeater1725

Tompion1727

pulling clock1733

regulator1735

eight-day clock1741

regulator clock1750

French clock1757

repetition clock1765

day clock1766

striker1778

chiming clock1789

cuckoo-clock1789

night clock1823

telltale1827

carriage clock1828

fly-clock1830

steeple clock1830

telltale clock1832

skeleton clock1842

telegraph clock1842

star clock1850

weight-clock1850

prison clock1853

crystal clock1854

pillar scroll top clock1860

sheep's-head clock1872

presentation clock1875

pillar clock1880

stop-clock1881

Waterbury1882

calendar-clock1884

ting-tang clock1884

birdcage clock1886

sheep's head1887

perpetual calendar1892

bracket clock1894

Act of Parliament clock1899

cartel clock1899

banjo-clock1903

master clock1904

lantern clock1913

time clock1919

evolutionary clock1922

lancet clock1922

atomic clock1927

quartz clock1934

clock radio1946

real-time clock1953

organ clock1956

molecular clock1974

travelling clock2014

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xiii. 77 Being wound up..once a Week, like a good Eight-day Clock.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 22 He took to pieces the eight-day clock.

eight-foil n. Heraldry (see quot.).

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1847 Gloss. Terms Brit. Her. Huit-foil, Eight-foil, or Double quatrefoil, an eight leaved flower used as a mark of cadency for the ninth son.

eight-oar adj. (of a boat) manned by eight rowers; also as n.

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1862 C. Kingsley Alton Locke (rev. ed.) xii. 104 An eight-oar lay under the bank.

1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 300 If Mr. Urquhart could persuade the Universities to substitute Turkish baths for eight-oars.

eight-shaft n. a kind of corded fabric.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > ribbed or corded > specific

barragan1677

prince's stuff1784

eight-shaft1840

hairline1862

hair-cord1866

grosgrain1869

Janus-cord1881

pincord1919

needlecord1959

1840 Liverpool Jrnl. 4 July 1/2 A great Stock of Fustians, in Beaverteens..Eightshaft, Constitution, and other excellent Cords.

eightsman n. one of the crew of an eight-oar.

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1882 Standard 16 Mar. 2 I am, Sir, your obedient servant, An Eightsman.

C4. (Eight pence is almost always written as one word, usually without hyphen.)

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单词	eight
释义	eightadj.n. Brit. /eɪt/, U.S. /eɪt/ Forms: α. Old English ahta, eahta, æhte, Middle English ehte, ( Orm.) ehhte, Middle English æhte, eahte, Middle English eyȝt(e, eiȝ-, eih-, eyhte, (Middle English eȝte, eyth), Middle English–1500s eyght(e, (Middle English eheit, heyt, eyt, ȝit(t, Middle English eght, eyȝthe), 1500s– eight. β. Middle English acht, aght, aȝt(e, aht(e, Scottish auht(e, Middle English Scottish awcht, Middle English– Scottish aucht, 1500s– Scottish aught. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic and Aryan: Old English ahta, eahta, æhte, Northumbrian æhto, = Old Frisian achta, achte, acht, Old Saxon ahto (Dutch acht), Old High German ahto (Middle High German ahte, modern German acht), Old Norse (ahta) átta* (Swedish åtta, Danish otte), Gothic ahtau; compare Latin octo, Greek ὀκτώ, Old Irish ocht, Lithuanian asztůnì, Sanskrit ashtáu. The cardinal numeral next after seven, represented by the symbols 8 or viii. A. adj. 1. a. With modified noun expressed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] eighta1000 ogdoada1382 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [adjective] eighta1000 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > eight things, persons, etc. eighta1000 OE Beowulf 1035 Heht ða..eahta mearas..on flet teon. a1000 Menologium (Gr.) 95 Þæs emb ahta and nigon Dogera rimes. 1070 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) Turold abbot and æhte siþe twenti Frencisce men mid him. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4327 Rihht ehhte siþe an hunndredd. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 13 Þis boc ich to deale on achte destincciuns. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1810) 385 As in þe ȝer of grace a þousend ȝer yt was And four score & eyȝte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 188 He heled on al vnfere þat seke was thritte and aht yeir. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. viii. 104 Aucht hundyr wynter and seventy. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 523 Aucht hundreth armyt, I trow, thai weir. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 210 I shall make them to be accompanyed of eyghte erles. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiv. f. 48 In eyght the fyrste yeres of his empire. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 10 In the year of God j^m. v^c. twantie aucht yeiris. 1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 23 Summers three times eight save one She had told. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 182 The Bard..strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year. a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 83 Twa times aught bannacks in a heap. 1885 R. S. Ball Story of Heavens 146 An interval of eight years. b. (an) eight days = a week. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] weekeOE sennightOE seven daysOE weekOE seven days and seven nightsOE (an) eight daysc1160 a week of daysa1382 week1398 sennight dayc1425 septimane1450 seventh night1567 sennight space1599 hebdomad1600 septuary1646 heptad1876 c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xx. 26 Efter ehte [c1000 eahta] dagen hys leorning-cnihtes wæren inne. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 45 Naȝt uor ane monþe ne to eȝte dayes: ac ine one zelue day. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke ix. 28 About an eight dayes after these sayings. View more context for this quotation 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva Eight days after prick them forth at distances. 2. a. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from context. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 249 Al þe world adrenchte. buten achte iþen arche. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13227 Þer æhte [c1300 Otho eahte] þer niȝene. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 84 Þe date was a þousand & fourscore & auhte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1927 Ȝou ȝitt haue I forborn..My brode benesoun I ȝou ȝyue. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 331 Þis meyny of aȝte I schal saue of monnez saulez. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. x. 521 For awcht or ten In comowne prys sawld wes þen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 18 We! aght, aght, and neyn, and ten is this. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 161 b Our Lords beatitudes.. ar rakened aught in number as follouis. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 84 Eight that were left to make a purer world. b. esp. With omission of hours; as eight o'clock, etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 197 His eyes were set at eight i'th morning. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 188 Let him be sent for to morrow eight a clocke to haue amends. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 263. ⁋1 I went to see him..about Eight a Clock in the Evening. 1891 N.E.D. at Eight Mod. We breakfast at eight. c. Prosody. in eight and six (four, etc.): in lines alternately consisting of those numbers of syllables. See B. 2d. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 22 It shall be written in eight and six . View more context for this quotation d. piece of eight n. at piece n. 16b. 3. Coupled with a higher cardinal or ordinal numeral following, so as to form a compound (cardinal or ordinal) numeral. ΚΠ 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 485 The eight and fortieth Chapter abideth in the exposition of the same text. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 332 Euery yeare, vppon the eight and twenty day of August, they obserue a solemn feast. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. iv. 53 D—n your eight-and-twenties! B. n. 1. The abstract number eight. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxi. 1359 Oon ydo to seuene maketh the nombre of eighte. 1808 Wilford in Asiatic Res. (London ed.) 8 289 Seven is a fortunate number among the Hindus: eight among the Baudd'hists. 2. A set of eight persons or things. a. Cards. A card marked with eight pips. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > number card > others twoa1500 cater1519 single ten1595 ten1595 eight1598 four1599 nine1599 six1599 seven1656 deuce1674 five1674 trey1680 spot1830 four-spot1878 two-spot1885 five-spot1913 ten-spot ladybird- 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Otto, the number of eight, an eight vpon the cards. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiv. 127 Then he plays his eight of Hearts. b. The crew of a rowing boat, consisting of eight oarsmen; a boat for eight oarsmen. the Eights: boat-races at the University of Oxford and elsewhere between the boats of the different colleges, which take place in the Summer Term; also the (..) eight: the eight-oar crew of any society chosen to represent it in races. Hence Eights Week. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > crew of 4- or 8-oared boat eight1847 four1861 trial eight1873 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for specific number of rowers a pair of oars1598 ten1642 four-oar1844 pair-oar1853 six-oar1856 two-oar1857 four1861 sixern1866 gig-pair1869 pair1885 eight1898 1847 Illustr. London News 28 Aug. 142/1 I rowed in a fairish ‘eight’. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. i. 6 He..could not be persuaded to be one of the University eight. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 6/1 (Oxf. Notes) Tomorrow the eights week will come to an end. 1896 Daily News 20 Jan. 5/1 After leaving..Oxford, where he rowed in the eight, he took a curacy at Fulham. 1898 S. Le Blanc-Smith in W. A. Morgan The ‘House’ on Sport 302 It is more difficult to obtain eight such men than to obtain four, added to which the eight being the heavier boat..greater rigidity is necessitated in the thowl-pin. 1908 Daily Chron. 21 May 4/6 Oxford has every right to distinguish her annual inter-college races..as ‘The Eights’. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson vi. 81 Isn't it a lovely day for the Eights? 1926 J. Buchan in Mod. Short Stories, Far Islands 196 In his first year he rowed seven in the Eight. 1955 Times 6 June 7/7 I noticed in your issue of May 30 your Eights Week chart... You record a double overbump... I should like to know whether this feat has ever been accomplished before in Eights? 1955 Times 25 July 3/6 Beaumont College, who won their juniors at Molesey a week ago, followed it up by winning the junior-senior eights. 1962 Times 13 Feb. 4/6 They have offered to build a racing eight by the hot~moulded effort. c. Bibliography. in eights: an expression indicating the number of leaves in a sheet of an early printed book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [adverb] > in octavo in octavo1582 in eights1858 1858 Lowndes Bibliogr. Man. at Caxton It [the Cronicles] terminates on the recto of Y 6 in eights. 1884 W. Gregor in J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus Introd. p. xxxi It is a quarto, and consists of A to I in eights. 1891 Catal. of Bibles, Liturgy, Church Hist. & Theol. (Bernard Quaritch) 53 The book is composed of 32 quires, in eights, except the first quire..which is in six. Thus a complete copy should contain 254 leaves. d. Metre. in eights: in lines of eight syllables. So in eights and sixes (fours, etc.): in alternate lines of those lengths. Chiefly said of hymns. 3. The figure (8) representing this number; hence anything in the form of an 8; esp. a figure made on the ice in skating. Also figure (of) eight; sometimes attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > thing or part in other curved shapes heart1446 scutule1592 figure (of) eight1607 parenthesis1608 scallop1609 curvilineal1636 stirrup1684 pelecoid1706 shield1849 pretzel1919 jug handle1955 society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > figure > specific figure (of) eight1607 do-se-do1929 1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring sig. C1 All our Courses are but Figures of 8. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Epic in Poems (new ed.) II. 1 Cutting eights that day upon the pond. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 626 The thrice-repeated eight, the eight hundred and eighty and eight. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 1 What is a figure of eight knot used for? 1876 A. Arnold Persia in Contemp. Rev. June 42 One is surprised to see a European cutting figures of eight upon frozen pools. 1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 255 They danced a figure 8 chain. 4. A shoe of the eighth size. ΚΠ 1913 G. Page Where Strange Roads (ed. 14) ix. 79 My wife takes large eight's in shoes. 5. Slang phrase one over the eight: one alcoholic drink too many. (Cf. one pron. 15b(b).) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > drunk [phrase] the malt is above the meal (rarely wheat, bere, water)1546 one over the eight1925 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 88 One over the eight, one drink too many. Slightly intoxicated, the presumption being that an average ‘moderate’ man can safely drink eight glasses of beer. 1928 Daily Express 3 Aug. 7/4 Luton magistrate: What does he mean by ‘one over the eight’? (‘A glass too many’?) Compounds C1. eight-angled adj. ΚΠ 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liii. §523 A Dye, four-square, (though six-sided, and eight angled). eight-celled adj. ΚΠ 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 521 The neck appears to form..an eight-celled rosette. eight-manned adj. ΚΠ 1897 Daily News 3 Feb. 6/4 A woman riding one among seven men on an eight-manned wheel. eight-oared adj. ΚΠ 1874 K. H. Digby Temple of Memory iii. 41 Their eight-oar'd crew felt quite in Heav'n. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 305 Now began that most pathetic spectacle, the finish of a beaten eight-oared crew. eight-rowed adj. ΚΠ 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 24 The Pickwacket corn, an early eight-rowed variety. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 431 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A small variety of eight-rowed corn. 1944 Burpee's Seeds 26 If you want the best and sweetest for your table, it's true 8-rowed Golden Bantam. eight-sided adj. ΚΠ 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 133 A series of double eight-sided pyramids might result from class h, i, and k. eight-spoked adj. ΚΠ 1884 F. Krohn tr. G. Glaser de Cew Magneto- & Dynamo-electr. Machines 33 The armature consists of an eight-spoked wheel. eight threaded adj. ΚΠ 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxviii. 6) 536 Some will have it, that [the Hebrew word Maschzar]..signifies eight thredded Linen. eight-wheeled adj. ΚΠ 1906 Daily Chron. 1 Mar. 7/2 Eight-wheeled first and third-class carriages. C2. a. Combined with nouns forming adjectives of dimension, etc. eight-bore adj. ΚΠ 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 23 For flight-shooting, an 8-bore [gun] is as large as is advantageous, and a 10 is sufficiently small. eight-inch adj. ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 660 His patent locomotive engine, with two eight-inch cylinders, weighs five tons. 1860 All Year Round 15 Sept. 548 The cost of an eight-inch cast-iron gun..is about a hundred pounds. eight-line adj. ΚΠ 1864 W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry IV. 19 In four eight-line stanzas. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Eight-line Pica. A type whose face has eight times the length of pica. eight-ounce adj. ΚΠ 1886 Outing 8 161/1 On one side an eight-ounce rod, a thread of silk [etc.]. eight-penny adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices sixpenny1591 fourpenny1597 eight-penny1598 twelvepenny1609 six-shilling1631 ninepenny1632 seven1643 threepenny1698 sevenpenny1712 fivepenny1799 shilling gallery1801 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 104 A trifle, some eight penie matter. View more context for this quotation 1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Eight pieces of Eight-peny taffaty Ribon. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Nails of sorts..8, 10, 24, 30, and 40-penny nails. b. eight-and-sixpenny n. ΚΠ 1906 Baroness von Hutten What became of Pam i. ii The new hat, an eight-and-sixpenny confection from the Tottenham Court Road. eight-bearer adj. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 7/2 An eight-bearer yellow chair. eight-company adj. ΚΠ 1900 Daily News 26 June 3/5 An eight-company battalion. eight-dog adj. ΚΠ 1876 Coursing Cal. 56 An eight-dog stake was added to the card in the evening. eight-pointer n. [pointer n. 15a] ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/5 A good eight-pointer, weighing over 15 stone. eight-wheeler n. ΚΠ 1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/1 A special mail train consisting of twelve eight-wheelers. eight-yarder n. ΚΠ 1930 Morning Post 17 June 14/7 He holed an eight-yarder for a 2 at the sixth. c. eight-day adj. ΚΠ 1850 E. B. Browning Poems I. 293 An eight-day watch had watchëd she. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xviii. 278 Little eight-day-old Venetians. C3. eight-box system n. a system of voting in South Carolina. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 732/2 In order to restrict the ignorant negro vote,..the General Assembly in 1882 instituted an electoral system which enforces an educational qualification by requiring the voter (who is secluded) to select his ticket himself and deposit it in the appropriate box. The system has become known as the ‘Eight-Box’ system, and has been imitated in other states. eight-coupled adj. having eight coupled wheels. ΚΠ 1893 English Mechanic 14 Apr. 181/1 (heading) Eight-coupled goods engines. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 7/3 One of the standard eight-coupled goods engines. 1904 C. S. Lake Locomotive 60 Goods engines with eight-coupled wheels. eight-day clock n. a clock that goes for eight days without winding up. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock watch-clock1592 German clock1598 quarter clocka1631 wheel-clock1671 table clocka1684 month clock1712 astronomical clock1719 musical clock1721 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pulling clock1733 regulator1735 eight-day clock1741 regulator clock1750 French clock1757 repetition clock1765 day clock1766 striker1778 chiming clock1789 cuckoo-clock1789 night clock1823 telltale1827 carriage clock1828 fly-clock1830 steeple clock1830 telltale clock1832 skeleton clock1842 telegraph clock1842 star clock1850 weight-clock1850 prison clock1853 crystal clock1854 pillar scroll top clock1860 sheep's-head clock1872 presentation clock1875 pillar clock1880 stop-clock1881 Waterbury1882 calendar-clock1884 ting-tang clock1884 birdcage clock1886 sheep's head1887 perpetual calendar1892 bracket clock1894 Act of Parliament clock1899 cartel clock1899 banjo-clock1903 master clock1904 lantern clock1913 time clock1919 evolutionary clock1922 lancet clock1922 atomic clock1927 quartz clock1934 clock radio1946 real-time clock1953 organ clock1956 molecular clock1974 travelling clock2014 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xiii. 77 Being wound up..once a Week, like a good Eight-day Clock. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 22 He took to pieces the eight-day clock. eight-foil n. Heraldry (see quot.). ΚΠ 1847 Gloss. Terms Brit. Her. Huit-foil, Eight-foil, or Double quatrefoil, an eight leaved flower used as a mark of cadency for the ninth son. eight-oar adj. (of a boat) manned by eight rowers; also as n. ΚΠ 1862 C. Kingsley Alton Locke (rev. ed.) xii. 104 An eight-oar lay under the bank. 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 300 If Mr. Urquhart could persuade the Universities to substitute Turkish baths for eight-oars. eight-shaft n. a kind of corded fabric. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > ribbed or corded > specific barragan1677 prince's stuff1784 eight-shaft1840 hairline1862 hair-cord1866 grosgrain1869 Janus-cord1881 pincord1919 needlecord1959 1840 Liverpool Jrnl. 4 July 1/2 A great Stock of Fustians, in Beaverteens..Eightshaft, Constitution, and other excellent Cords. eightsman n. one of the crew of an eight-oar. ΚΠ 1882 Standard 16 Mar. 2 I am, Sir, your obedient servant, An Eightsman. C4. (Eight pence is almost always written as one word, usually without hyphen.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.a1000
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