fortyadj.n.
/ˈfɔːti/, U.S. /ˈfɔrdi/ A. adj. † d. = fortieth adj. Obsolete.
a. The cardinal numeral equal to four tens, represented by the symbols 40 or xl. Also in combination with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as forty-one, forty-first, etc.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > forty
fortyc950
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > forty
fortyc950
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iv. 2 & mið ðy gefæste feuortig daga & feowertig næhta.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 227 He hi afedde feortiȝ wintre.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 Adam was in helle in pine fuwerti hundred wintre for his sinne.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 419 More þan a uourty ȝer hyt was þat he was ybore.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 808 If that thee list it have, Ye shul paye fourty pound.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 55 He hadde noo moo wyth hym but fourthi.
c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 43 In the fourtie and eyght Psalme.
1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie i. iv. sig. B2 Cham sure chaue come, vorty miles and twenty.
a1642 J. Suckling Poems 37 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) And there did I see comming down Such folks as are not in our Town Vorty at least, in Pairs.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 94 At the end of their Quarentine, which is Forty days.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 323 He died in the fourty fifth year of his Age.
1803 C. Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 89 It..was found to contain one forty-eighth of antimony.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 188 The day..according to his calculation, was about forty-eight hours.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxi. 227 Dierich's forty years weighed him down like forty bullets.
b. Used indefinitely to express a large number. like forty (U.S. colloquial): with immense force or vigour, ‘like anything’.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > used for large number
sevenOE
fortya1616
any1758
steen1886
steenth1895
zillion1901
umpty1916
umptieth1917
umpteen1918
umpteenth1918
bazillion1939
scrillion1945
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 242 On faire ground, I could beat fortie of them. View more context for this quotation
1620 G. Herbert Let. 19 Jan. in Wks. (1978) 371 I have forty businesses in my hands, your Courtesie will pardon the haste of Your humblest Servant.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccv He that's Well, already, and upon a Levity of Mind, Quits his Station, in hopes to be Better, 'tis Forty to One, he loses by the Change.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. viii. 117 I has principles and I sticks to 'em like forty.
c. †forty weeks: often used for the length of the period of gestation. †forty pence: a customary amount for a wager. forty winks (colloquial): a short nap, esp. after dinner.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake > customary amount
forty pencec1350
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance or period of > short or light > esp. after dinner
forty winks1872
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 118 (MED) In þyssere ioye we scholde by-louken Al hyre ioyen of uourti woken Þe wylest he ȝede wyþ chylde.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. l. 100 (MED) In þe wombe of þat wenche was he fourty wokes.
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Di xl. d. gaged vpon a matche of wrastling.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 90 How tasts it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no. View more context for this quotation
1872 Punch 16 Nov. 208/2 If a..man, after reading steadily through the Thirty-nine Articles, were to take forty winks.
1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 228 I'm tired, and I want my forty winks.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > forty > fortieth
fortiethc1000
forty1559
1559 Certayne Serm. (new ed.) Good Works iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 58 Sectes..were neither the forty part so many among the Jewes, nor [etc.].
e. the forty hours (also qualifying devotion, etc.; Italian le quarant' ore): in the Roman Catholic Church, the continuous exposition of the Host for forty hours, used as an occasion of special devotion or intercession.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > 40 hours devotion to
the forty hours1759
1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 560 The saint..ordered the forty hours prayer for his recovery.
1839 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici IX. iii. 79 The devotion of the forty hours prayer instituted by a poor Capuchin friar, Joseph of Milan.
1869 A. T. Drane Life Mother Margaret Hallahan vii. 189 During the Octave of Corpus Christi this year the Devotion of the Forty Hours was for the first time celebrated in St. Catherine's Convent.
1922 Catholic Encycl. Suppl. I. 29/1 The Forty Hours' Adoration.
1967 New Catholic Encycl. V. 1036/1 Forty hours devotion. A continuous period of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, begun and terminated with a solemn high Mass, procession where possible, Litany of the Saints, and special prayers.
1967 New Catholic Encycl. V. 1036/2 Forty Hours has come to be a devotion simply honoring the Blessed Sacrament rather than a means of making reparation or of petitioning for peace.
B. n.
1.
a. The age of 40 years.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. i. 5 Alciphron is above Forty.
b. the forties: the years between 40 and 50 of a century or of one's life.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > decade > specific decade in a century or person's life
seventies1845
nineties1871
twenties1874
the fifties1880
the thirties1880
the forties1885
sixties1964
zeros1989
1885 Athenæum 18 July 83/1 His magnum opus was published in Edinburgh some time in the forties.
1893 G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 243 What were called half-caps were worn in the early forties.
2. the forty: a designation applied to certain public bodies in various countries and at various periods, from the number of their members; e.g. to several courts of justice in the Venetian republic; to a body of itinerant justices in ancient Attica, empowered to try petty actions; to the French Academy, and (occasionally) to the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > body of > of specific number
septemvirate1624
the forty1821
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. i. 6 'Tis not for us To anticipate the sentence of the Forty.
3. A yacht of forty tons burden.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
1894 Field 9 June 836/1 The two big cutters had left..the two forties many miles astern.
4. the roaring forties: see roaring forties n.
5. One fourth of a quarter section of land, comprising forty acres. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of
pounds worthOE
school land1466
shot1478
ground1548
officiary1594
canton1643
lotment1651
bovate1688
fraction1789
mahal1793
erf1812
fractional section1815
forty1845
tan1871
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 2 Eighties and forties..are plain enough when one is habituated to them.
1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville i. 19 It was just so many quarter sections, ‘eighties’, and ‘forties’ to be bought low.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail i. 13 The men who were to fell the trees, Radway distributed along one boundary of a ‘forty’.
1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) xiv. 276 I had thought we would commence on the east forty when planning the work [of ploughing].
1947 Pacific Discovery Jan.–Feb. 5/1 This was wilderness, as distinct from the back forty.
6. A period of forty minutes' play.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > period of play
half1876
quarter1889
period1898
forty1913
stanza1945
1913 Field 25 Oct. 904/2 Light forwards are bound to be worn down in two ‘forties’ by heavier.
7. A ‘crook’, thief, sharper (in quot. 1879, a convict). Australian slang.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun]
prisona1225
prisonerc1384
enpresonéc1425
bird1580
warder1584
canary bird1593
penitentiala1633
convict1786
chum1819
lag1819
lagger1819
new chum1819
nut-brown1835
collegian1837
canary1840
Sydney duck1873
forty1879
zebra1882
con1893
yardbird1956
zek1968
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
1879 Mrs. C. Cook Comic Hist. New S. Wales Fifteen of the ‘Forties’ became free of the colony this June.
1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 8/2 The Forties, the worst types of ‘the talent’ who get up rows in a mob,..and sometimes assault and rob, either in barrooms or the streets.
1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake 116 Ah, them were jolly days indeed, Long ere the Vandemonian swarm had come,..Or ere the ‘Forty’ had capsized our trade.
1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor xxii. 194 Their numbers swelled with rowdies and ‘forties’—gambling sharpers who travelled from shed to shed making five pounds by cheating for every five shillings they earned.
Compounds
C1. Combination of the simple numeral with a noun (used attributively or elliptically as nouns), and parasynthetic derivatives of these: † forty pence n. Obsolete ? a jocular designation for a servant who runs errands.† forty penny piece n. Obsolete a coin worth 40 pence Scots, i.e. 3½d. sterling.
forty-acre n. U.S. and New Zealand a section of land comprising forty acres (cf. B. 5).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [adjective] > of specific number of acres
forty-acre1742
thousand-acre1895
1742 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 94 I give to my Grand Son..one Forty Acre Lot.
1860 in A. F. Ridgway Voices from Auckland 48 The Forty-acre men will ruin the country.
1869 J. May Guide to Farming in N.Z. 42 We were lately on the sections of two ‘forty-acre men’.
1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail xi. 227 ‘I live just over there’, pointing to his house across a forty-acre lot.
1943 C. Crow Great Amer. Customer (ed. 3) 185 There was no reason why a farmer could not plant a whole forty-acre field in wheat.
forty-foot n. †(a) = forty legs n.; (b) see quot. 1889.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of
scolopender1562
centipede1601
scolopendra1608
forty-foot1677
millipede1684
forty legs1697
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
Meg-many-feet1813
chilopodan1835
chilopod1837
twenty-foot worm-
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right as tenant > over adjoining land
forty-foot1889
1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 17 An Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-foot.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Forty-foot, a right of forty-foot which the tenants of certain manors had over the soil of an adjoining manor.
forty-footer n. a forty-foot yacht.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
1902 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1902) XXXVIII. 256 The schooner-yacht ‘Excelsior’ was one of the earliest of the ‘forty-footers’.
forty-knot n. ‘the Alternanthera Achyrantha, a prostrate amarantaceous weed of warm countries’ ( Cent. Dict.).
forty legs n. a popular or dialectal name of the centipede.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of
scolopender1562
centipede1601
scolopendra1608
forty-foot1677
millipede1684
forty legs1697
thousand-feet1704
thousand-legs1807
Meg-many-feet1813
chilopodan1835
chilopod1837
twenty-foot worm-
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 320 Centapees, call'd by the English 40 Legs.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 89 The Forty-legs in Surinam are a great deal larger than what are bred in Barbados.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Forty-legs, a centipede.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands
forty pencea1605
runner1686
a1605 W. Haughton English-men for my Money (1616) sig. F4 Farewell fortipence, goe seeke your Signor.
forty-penny nail n. a nail of such size that one thousand of them weigh forty pounds (see penny n.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > specific price or size of nail
tenpenny nail1426
tenpenny nail1426
threepenny nail1429
fourpenny nail1481
sixpenny nail1486
fives1629
forty-penny nail1769
tenpenny1820
1769 in Hawkesworth Voy. (1773) II. 182 No nails less than fortypenny were current.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Nails of sorts are, 4, 6, 8..and 40-penny nails.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Scottish coins > [noun] > other Scottish coins
sterling1387
plack1473
sture1493
stick1494
bawbee1542
hardhead1559
nonsunt1559
liona1572
atchison1600
turner1631
turnover1640
bodle1650
forty penny piece1681
rigmariea1682
cross-daggera1690
mark1762
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 58 Butter and cheese, and wool fleeces, For groats and Fourty penny pieces.
forty rod lightning n. U.S. slang see quot.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Forty Rod Lightning, whisky of the most villainous description, so called because humorously warranted to kill at forty rods.
forty-rod whisky n. = forty rod lightning n.; also elliptical.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1863 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South II. 11 Their cries for water were incessant to allay the internal fires caused by ‘40 rod’ and ‘60 rod’.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 70 Trading for forty-rod whiskey..has played the everlasting mischief.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xiii The standard drink is whisky—‘stone fence’, ‘forty-rod’, and ‘tarantula-juice’.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 124 Forty-rod whisky was administered by a proprietor as dirty as his beasts.
1916 ‘Anzac’ On Anzac Trail v. 77 Shebangs [in Cairo] where they sell you whisky that takes the lining of your throat down with it..a soothing liquid that licks ‘forty-rod’, ‘chained lightning’, or ‘Cape smoke’ to the back of creation.
1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber vi. 59 Who's got the forty-rod, Steve?.. There's a bootlegging place somewhere, I'll be bound.
1948 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) 7 June 8/1 The mere possession of a few gills of forty rod is not counted as an ample offset to planned assassination.
forty skewer n. see fortescue n.
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forty-spot n. the Tasmanian name for a bird, Pardalotus quadragintus (Gould, Birds Austr., 1848).
forty-tonner n. = B. 3.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
1895 Daily News 11 June 2/4 For the second match, forty-tonners, three entered.
C2.
a. Substantival uses of the compound numerals (see A. a):† forty-nine n. Obsolete a 17th cent. name for some kind of liquor.
forty-eight n. (a) a flowerpot of the third smallest size, of which there are 48 in a ‘cast’; (b) plural a sheet of a book folded into forty-eight leaves; (c) the forty-eight preludes and fugues of J. S. Bach.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub
garden pot1592
flowerpot1598
pot1615
forty-eight1808
jardinière1841
thumb-pot1851
flower-box1876
window box1895
planter1948
society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > forty-eightmo
forty-eight1808
forty-eightmo1888
society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > specific group of pieces
forty-eight1808
Mozartiana1935
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 192 A Half Sheet of Forty-eights, with Two Signatures.
1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding 168 Forty-eights to be paid 2s. per sheet extra.
1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 227 They must be potted off into moderately small pots, say forty-eights.
1873 H. C. Banister Music (1889) iii. xxvi. 206 Bach's Fugue in C♯ Minor, No. 4 of the 48.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 1/3 Those famous fugues and preludes known to all musicians as the ‘Forty-Eight’.
1965 G. Hughes Handbk. Great Composers vii. 45 At times the..counterpoint seems to spring from the interweaving of rhythmic figures rather than of melodic phrases—as in the prelude in F sharp major from the second book of the ‘forty-eight’.
forty-eightmo n. the size of a book in forty-eights.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > forty-eightmo
forty-eight1808
forty-eightmo1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 46 Forty-eightmo, a sheet of paper folded into forty-eight leaves.
forty-four n. (a) a forty-four gun ship; (b) a bicycle with a wheel 44 inches in diameter.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel carrying certain number of guns > twenty or more
ship of post1731
post ship1747
seventy-four1777
fifty1778
forty-four1821
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle > other types of bicycle
forty-four1821
roadster1875
rear-steerer1882
pneumatic1890
path-racer1896
featherweight1901
free-wheeler1908
fairy cycle1920
superbike1935
sit-up-and-beg1939
bakfiets1956
high-riser1965
all-terrain cycle1970
chopper1971
mountain bike1972
shopper1973
mixte1975
BMX1978
cruiser1978
ojek1983
boda boda1995
e-bike1998
fixie2001
ghost bike2004
1821 Ld. Byron To Murray 7 Feb. The giant element..made our stout forty-four's..timbers creak again.
1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 55/2 His hand resting..on the handle of his forty-four.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > others
stitch-broth1635
Cherellya1640
rug1653
steel-nose1654
pope's-milka1661
Northdown1670
purl royal1675
sweetsa1679
forty-ninea1713
huggle-my-buff1756
slug1756
gunpowder1765
guarapo1772
peachy1781
all nations1785
anti-fogmatic1789
soma1827
ava1831
native1832
tap1832
stone fence1844
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a1713 A. Pitcairne Babell (1830) 5 Assist me all, ye Muses nyne! With a beer glass of fourtie nyne.
1723 W. Meston Knight (1767) 21 A glass or two of forty-nine He can pull off before he dine.
forty-one n. Historical the Venetian council by whom the Doge was elected.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > of specific number of people > in Venice
forty-one1612
1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice ii. 481 The forty one being assembled..they..chose him Prince.
1710 H. Bedford Vindic. Church of Eng. 1 The Spirit of Forty-one is reviving.
forty-two n. attributive in forty-two man n., a man of the 42nd regiment.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
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Life Guardsman1785
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forty-two man1816
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1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiv. 293 Here comes an old forty-two man who is a fitter match for you than I am.
b. In abbreviated dates, as forty-one, -two, -three, etc., colloquially used to designate a year of the current or preceding century.
forty-niner n. U.S. one of those who settled in California during the ‘gold fever’ about 1849.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers
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Big Knife1750
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Boer1776
freeman1791
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1853 Mountain Echo (Downieville, Calif.) 12 Feb. 1/1 Speeches were made by some of the worthy old forty-nin-ers.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xv. 268 The ‘voyage of Jason and the Argonauts’ is no doubt a poetic account of the ‘49-ers’ of Greece.
1887 Council Bluffs Herald (Iowa) 17 Jan. Running the ‘pony express’ in the exciting days of the ‘49-ers’.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xliv. 299 All old prospectors and ‘forty-niners’.
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Real Tennis and Tennis. The third point won in a game by a player or doubles partnership.If the score is level, each player or partnership having won three points, this is called ‘deuce’ (see deuce n.1 2) rather than ‘forty all’, but is represented graphically as 40–40.The third point was originally called ‘forty-five’ or ‘five-and-forty’ (see quots. ?1536, 1593), following the sequence of fifteen, thirty. ‘Forty’ was perhaps adopted because of its convenience as a shorter form for calling out; this may perhaps have originated in English (similar use of French quarante is not recorded until later).
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?1536 Batayll of Eygyngecourte sig. A.iii Fyue and forty we haue.
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. ix. 60/3 Fortie fiue.]
a1672 P. Skippon in F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 106 If he makes another losse.., the adverse reckons ten more & calls Fowrty Love.
1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming iii. 52 Instead of its being marked one, two, three, four, it is called fifteen, thirty, forty, game.
1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 496/2 The game..is called for the first stroke, fifteen; for the second, thirty; for the third, forty.
1875 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 31/2 Forty thirty—chase one and two—change sides.
1921 W. T. Tilden Art of Lawn Tennis (ed. 2) iv. 36 He missed his volley off my return of the next service, and I led at 30–40.
1966 London Mag. Feb. 14 ‘Forty-love,’ he said in his firm resonant voice.
2009 A. Agassi Open 303 He's serving, 40—15.
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