hundredn.adj.
/ˈhʌndrəd/, U.S. /ˈhəndrəd/ 1. The cardinal numeral equal to ten tens, or five score; represented by the symbols 100 or c.
a. As n. or quasi-n., with plural.
(a) In singular. Usually a hundred (also archaic. an hundred), emphatically one hundred; in phrases expressing rate, the hundred. in (also †upon, †at, †for) the hundred (in reckoning interest, etc.); now usually expressed by ‘per cent.’The construction (when there is any) is in Old English with gen. plural, later with of and a plural noun. In modern English this is limited to definite things (e.g. a hundred of the men, of those men, of them); except in the case of measures of quantity, e.g. a hundred of bricks, this construction is not now used before a noun standing alone (e.g. a hundred of men), but the construction in 1b is substituted. But a hundred is construed with a plural verb, e.g. a hundred of my friends were chosen; a second hundred were then enrolled.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred
hundc893
hundredc950
centc1436
century1582
centenary1625
ton1962
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 28 Hundrað scillinga [Rushw. G. hundred denera; Ags. Gosp. an hund penega].
c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxxix. [xc.] 10 Þeah þe heora hundred seo.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6078 Allswasumm illc an hunndredd iss. full tale.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6977 It was na folk þam moght wit-stand, þat an hundreth moght for-chace.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 309 Twyes syxe tymes ten, that ys to a hundereth and twenty.
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 50 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 78 A-mongst an hundreth..of thes religyuse brethren.
1553 T. Gresham in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) I. 132 To lett upon interest for a xii monthes daye, after xiii upon the hundred.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 177 The lender not content to receiue lesse aduantage than thirtie at the hundred.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 91 For gaine of fifty in the hundred.
1648 F. Nethersole Self-condemned i. A ij b Not one of an hundred of them could tell.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. dv About one hundred of Leagues.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 32 'Tis above a Hundred to one against any particular throw..with four Cubical Dice.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. vi. 11 Add one round hundred.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Apr. 9/4 Tickets fabricated by the hundred.
(b) In plural: hundreds. [Old English hundred, -u, neuter, Middle English hundredes.] In Arithmetic often elliptical for the digits denoting the number of hundreds: cf. units, tens.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 40 Hi ða sæton hundredon and fiftigon.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 176/26 Centurias, getalu, uel heapas, uel hundredu.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 27830 Of alle þan hundredes Þat to-hewe were.
c1380 J. Wyclif Last Age Chirche in Todd Three Treat. p. xxvi Two and twenty hundriddis of ȝeeris.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8886 O quens had he [sc. Solomon] hundrets seuen.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 28 So mony hundrythes ben in þe nounbre þat schal come of þe multiplicacion of þe ylke 2 articuls.
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. Q.iiii His place is the voyde space nexte aboue hundredes.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 110 Governours of thousands, hundreths, fifties and tens.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 78 Great store of red Deare..which the Princes kill by hundreds at a time.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 66 One fly deposits hundreds of eggs.
1876 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. (ed. 2) i. 3 The body of invaders is a regular army..divided into ‘hundreds’ of warriors.
1899 N.E.D. at Hundred Mod. Some hundreds of men were present.
(c) After a numeral adjective, hundred is commonly used as a collective plural, with the same construction as in 1a(a). Cf. dozen n.
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c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 303 Þrittig siðon seofon beoð twa hundred & tyn.
a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 656 ⁋11 Seox hundred wintra.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6071 Þurrh tale off fowwerr hunndredd.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 308 Six hundred of his cnihten.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 13345 Þe folk him folowed..be many hundre & thousande.
c1460 Battle of Otterbourne 260 Of nyne thowsand Ynglyssh men Fyve hondert cam awaye.
1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. 3 These many hundred of years.
1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 105 He deluded many hundred of Women [mod. many hundred w., or hundreds of w.]
1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George ii Eight hundred of the brave.
1899 N.E.D. at Hundred Mod. He lost several hundred of his men in crossing the river.
b.
(a) As adj. or quasi-adj., followed immediately by a plural (or collective) noun.In Old English sometimes used as a true adjective, either invariable (like other cardinal numerals above three), or inflected in agreement with its noun. The use in later times may be regarded either as a continuation of this, or as an ellipsis of of before the noun. The word retains its substantival character so far as to be always preceded by a or some adjective (numeral, demonstrative, possessive, relative, or interrogative). Either the singular or the collective plural is used, as in 1a(a), 1a(c). Cf. dozen n., which has precisely parallel constructions.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred
hundredc975
centenaryc1451
c975 Rushw. Gosp. Mark vi. 37 Mið peningum twæm hundreðum.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 37 Mid twam hundred penegon.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 113 Swo maniȝe hundred wintre.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2342 An hondred kniȝtes.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22747 Þe hundret and þe þusand knightes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10399 Þese hundride [Vesp. hundreth, Gött. hundrid; c1460 Laud hundird] sheep þat were þere.
c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xii Thre hundrythe pownde Of redy monay.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 126 Scwne..Quhar kingis was cround viii hundyr ȝer and mar.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 83 Nine hundreth thousande poundes.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 256 A whole hundreth Popes in a rowe.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 5 Within a few hundreth yeeres after Christ.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 216 A hundred and twenty five thousand times bigger.
1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George vi With twice four hundred men.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iv. xxxii. 91 Many a mountain chain which rears Its hundred crests aloft.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic x. 325 After one hundred millions of favourable instances..the hundred-million-and-first instance should be an exception.
1899 N.E.D. at Hundred Mod. The hundred and one odd chances.
(b) the Hundred Days [the immediate source of the phrase is the speech delivered by Louis de Chabrol de Volvic, prefect of Paris, to Louis XVIII in 1815 (‘Cent jours se sont écoulés depuis le moment fatal où votre majesté quitta sa capitale’)] the period of the restoration of Napoleon Bonaparte, after his escape from Elba, ending with his abdication on 22 June 1815. Also transferred.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods
antiquityc1375
Christian antiquity1577
the days of ignorance1652
the time of ignorance1652
dark ages1656
Lower Empire1668
the age of reason1792
Scythism1793
grand siècle1811
the Age of Enlightenment1825
the Hundred Days1827
Tom and Jerry days1840
regency1841
industrial age1843
Régence1845
viking age1847
ignorance1867
renascence1868
Renaissance1872
gilded age1874
jazz era1919
jazz age1920
post-war1934
steam age1941
postcolonialism1955
information age1960
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon IX. i. 33 Here, therefore, ended that short space..that period of an Hundred Days, in which the events of a century seem to be contained.
1862 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. VIII. ii. 21 This landing in the Gulf of St. Juan on the 1st of March was the introductory scene to the great drama called ‘The Hundred Days’.
1887 O. W. Holmes (title) Our hundred days in Europe.
1956 J. M. Burns Roosevelt: Lion & Fox ix. 169 The President asked for quick authorization of a civilian conservation corps... This bill interested Roosevelt himself as much as any single measure of the Hundred Days.
1965 T. C. Sorensen Kennedy ix. 242 ‘I'm sick of reading how we're planning another “hundred days” of miracles,’ he [sc. J. F. Kennedy] said, ‘and I'd like to know who on the staff is talking that up. Let's put in that this won't all be finished in a hundred days or a thousand.’
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 10 Apr. (1970) 257 Lyndon talked of the harvest of legislation. He said that never has there been such a hundred days.
1966 H. Wilson Purpose in Power i. 1 (heading) The first hundred days.
(c) Hundred Years War n. the intermittent war between England and France from 1337 to 1453, arising out of the claim of the English kings to the French crown.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war
Punic War1556
Vandal war1613
American Civil War1775
Seven Years War1775
Revolutionary Wara1784
Peninsular war1811
Great War1815
Mormon war1833
opium war1841
the Thirty Years' War1841
the Thirty Years' War1842
Mexican War1846
Napoleonic War1850
Crimean War1854
Hundred Years War1874
Balkan war1881
Boer War1883
Winter War1939
Six Day War1967
Yom Kippur War1973
Gulf War1981
Falklands conflict1982
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §1. 275 The Hundred Years' War had ended.
1959 M. McKisack 14th Cent. 127 Like the second world war of the twentieth century, the Hundred Years War gathered momentum slowly. Gascony was declared confiscate in May 1337 and in October Edward laid his claim to the French Crown; but there was no organized campaigning for another two years.
1961 E. F. Jacob Fifteenth Cent., 1399–1485 505 In the spring of 1453 Charles VII opened the last campaign of the Hundred Years War in overwhelming force.
(d) the Hundred Flowers: (a name given to) a period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when certain elements of the Chinese population were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. (See quot. 19582.)
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Chinese politics > period of criticism
the Hundred Flowers1958
1958 L. F. Edwards tr. E. Fauré Serpent & Tortoise xiv. 121 In the intellectual China of the Hundred Flowers, no one has the right to be a counter-revolutionary, but one has, to a certain extent, the right to be an idealist.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 718/1 The campaign for free speech [in China] that followed the encouraging words of Mao Tsetung—‘let a hundred flowers bloom’—was evidently designed as an operation to find out what precisely were the prevailing criticisms of policy.
1959 Listener 5 Feb. 255/1 The intellectuals [in China] who blossomed with criticism during the brief Hundred Flowers Movement.
1973 Listener 2 Aug. 147/3 The humiliations which the Party had suffered during the so-called Hundred Flowers period.
c. The cardinal form hundred is also used as an ordinal when followed by other numbers, the last of which alone takes the ordinal form: e.g. ‘the hundred-and-first’, ‘the hundred-and-twentieth’, ‘the six-hundred-and-fortieth part of a square mile’.
d. After a numeral, used to express the two noughts in the figure representing the number of hours since midnight. Cf. hour n. 1b.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > expressed as hours after midnight
hours1427
hundred1953
1953 P. C. Berg Dict. New Words 95/1 Hundred, the two noughts in the numerical symbols of full hours; e.g. we will meet at nine hundred hours [= 9.00 a.m.].
1967 B. Knox Blacklight vi. 135 ‘What's the time?’..‘Coming up for seven-forty-five sir.’ ‘Let's be formal and say near enough to twenty hundred hours... Wait till twenty-two hundred, mister.’
1973 A. Hunter Gently French i. 13 I got back to Elphinstone Road at about oh-one hundred hours.
2.
a. Often used indefinitely or hyperbolically for a large number: cf. thousand n. and adj. (With various constructions, as in sense 1.)
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude
sandc825
thousandc1000
un-i-rimeOE
legiona1325
fernc1325
multitudec1350
hundred1362
abundancec1384
quantityc1390
sight1390
felec1394
manyheada1400
lastc1405
sortc1475
infinityc1480
multiplie1488
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power1489
many1525
flock1535
heapa1547
multitudine1547
sort1548
myriads1555
myriads1559
infinite1563
tot-quot1565
dickera1586
multiplea1595
troop1596
multitudes1598
myriad1611
sea-sands1656
plurality1657
a vast many1695
dozen1734
a good few1756
nation1762
vast1793
a wheen (of)1814
swad1828
lot1833
tribe1833
slew1839
such a many1841
right smart1842
a million and one1856
horde1860
a good several1865
sheaf1865
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
immense1872
dunnamuch1875
telephone number1880
umpty1905
dunnamany1906
skit1913
umpteen1919
zillion1922
gang1928
scrillion1935
jillion1942
900 number1977
gazillion1978
fuckload1984
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vi. 11 An hundred of ampolles on his hat seeten.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17031 He has a hundret sith dublid þis ilk pain.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 131 God rewardithe her in this worldely lyff, hundred sithe more after the departinge oute of this world.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. iv. [v.] 2 A fer gretar wondir And mair dreidfull to cativis be sic hundir.
1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 12 That one growing misorder breed not an hundred.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 66 Altered into a hundred severall fashions and shapes.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xlvi How can she acquire those hundreds of Graces and Motions, and Airs?
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 112 You and Mr. Sedley made the match a hundred years ago.
1885 Times 20 Feb. 5/1 The hundred and one forms of small craft used by the Chinese to gain an honest livelihood.
b. not a hundred miles from; within a hundred miles of: near, close to, in or at; also figurative; (all the same in) a hundred years (hence) (and similar expressions): gnomic formulas of consolation for present adversity; like a hundred of bricks: see brick n.1 and adj.1 Phrases 3b; a hundred to one: a hundred chances to one; hence, an expression indicating very slight probability (implying ‘a hundred to one against’) or very strong probability (‘a hundred to one in favour of’).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > consolation or relief [phrase] > consolatory
(all the same in) a hundred years (hence)1647
worse things happen at sea1829
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > remote chance
a hundred to one1647
a million to one1678
long odds1764
long shot1796
off-chance1844
long chance1854
outside chance1867
a fat chance1892
to have a Chinaman's chance1915
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [noun] > strong probability
ten to one1589
a hundred to one1647
the world > space > distance > nearness > near to [preposition] > not far from
not a hundred miles from1821
within a hundred miles of1827
1647 M. Verney in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) II. xiv. 370 Tis a hundred to one pegg's husband turns them out of his house again within a fortnight.
1675 T. Jordan Triumphs of London 21 Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense, Will be damnably mouldy a hundred year hence.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. ix. 93 What a chapter of chances, said my father... 'Twas a hundred to one—cried my uncle Toby.
1783 in J. Ritson Select Coll. Eng. Songs II. 14 We shall be nothing An hundred years hence.
1821 Kaleidoscope 27 Feb. 277/3 A sporting gentleman passing by a house, not a hundred miles from —— street.
1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 270 Within one hundred miles of the great Chancery shop of the kingdom.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 76 As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
1852 Leisure Hour I. 52/2 Scandalous transactions said to have transpired between two ‘well-known’ individuals ‘not a hundred miles off’.
1874 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) ix. 75 Let's look cheerful—it will be all the same a hundred years hence.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. iv. 50 If he gets clear off..you're right. But it's a hundred to one against it.
1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 171 Did you ever know old Hummy behave like that before or within a hundred miles of it?
1895 A. W. Pinero Benefit of Doubt ii. 109 Don't fret; it'll be all the same a hundred years hence.
1903 J. M'Govan Brought to Bay 74 This retreat, he admitted, was not a hundred miles from the spot where they were at that moment seated.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ix. 1105 ‘Oh, well, it'll be all the same in a hundred years.’ She picked up her white gloves, and swaggered across the crowded beerhall.
1925 W. S. Maugham Painted Veil i. 11 I say, you must pull yourself together. It's a hundred to one it wasn't Walter.
1955 D. Garnett Aspects of Love I. 27 Of course it is a hundred to one that the girl is just a tart he has picked up in Montpellier.
1968 C. Watson Charity ends at Home vi. 69 Certain information has reached me privately concerning the disposal of funds raised not a hundred miles from here in the name of so-called ‘charity’.
1971 G. Household Doom's Caravan iv. 174 All the same a hundred years hence, as my Nanny used to say.
1973 M. Woodhouse Blue Bone xvi. 174 I don't want you, Rodway, or you, Quickie, within a hundred miles of me, ever.
c. a (also one) hundred per cent: used adjectivally or adverbially with the meaning ‘entire(ly), complete(ly)’. Hence hundred-per-center, hundred-per-centism. Originally U.S.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly
all outc1300
out and outc1300
at all devicec1385
to devicec1385
right out?1543
up to the chin1546
up to the eyes1607
upsy Friese1609
up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627
all hollow1762
(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822
all ends up1850
fair and square1870
right spang1884
to the wide1895
a (also one) hundred per cent1911
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed vii. 90 You do more work in twenty-four hours than you're doing now, besides feelin' one hundred per cent. better all the time.
1918 T. Roosevelt in N.Y. Times 19 July 6/6 There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent. Americanism... No man who is not 100 per cent. American is entitled to the support of any party.
1923 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. An administrator is 100 per cent. successful only when he gets every individual in the factory..working as enthusiastically as if he were working for himself on his own job.
1923 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. Under a hundred per cent. disability.
1923 Smart Set Feb. 30 (title) Diary of a 100% American.
1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 135 Such detachment would not be possible to a ‘hundred per cent. American’.
a1927 W. W. Woollcott (title of poem) I am a one hundred percent. American.
1928 Publishers' Weekly 26 May 2164/2 I have frequently encountered excellent accounting systems which were 100 per cent. useless.
1928 Observer 4 Mar. 13/2 Perhaps New York is not the place for the Hundred-per-centers. I certainly never met any.
1928 Observer 8 Apr. 8/2 He is really another victim of hundred-per-centism.
1931 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 232 The first thing that would occur to a real hundred per cent. American in Russia is that..it must be a splendid country to make money in.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 76/3 The inevitable ‘honest-to-God’ hundred-per-cent. American young man..besieges and wins Valerie's heart.
1931 G. D. H. Cole in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 666 I see no sign of the actual approach of this hundred per cent. American paradise.
1946 Amer. Speech 21 34/1 Hundred per center,..one who observes all customs and traditions without demur.
1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 The bomber crews had to make 100 per cent. certain of putting their H.E. loads right on the objective.
1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xxiv. 233 You're one hundred per cent sure they'll never make any sort of bang, then?
d. a hundred per cent: fit, well, recovered. Frequently in negative contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > healthy
wholeeOE
isoundOE
i-sundfulc1000
ferec1175
soundc1175
fish-wholea1225
forthlyc1230
steadfasta1300
wella1300
safec1300
tidya1325
halec1330
quartc1330
well-faringc1330
well-tempered1340
well-disposeda1398
wealyc1400
furnished1473
mighty?a1475
quartful?c1475
good1527
wholesomea1533
crank1548
healthful1550
healthy1552
hearty1552
healthsome1563
well-affected?1563
disposed1575
as sound as a bell1576
firm1577
well-conditioned1580
sound1605
unvaletudinary1650
all right1652
valid1652
as sound as a (alsoany) roach1655
fair-like1663
hoddy1664
wanton1674
stout?1697
trig1704
well-hained1722
sprack1747
caller1754
sane1755
finely1763
bobbish1780
cleverly1784
right1787
smart1788
fine1791
eucratic1795
nobbling1825
as right as a trivet1835
first rate1841
in fine, good, high, etc., feather1844
gay1855
sprackish1882
game ball1905
abled1946
well-toned1952
a hundred per cent1960
oke1960
the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] > recovered
yheledc900
wholeeOE
safec1300
halec1330
healeda1400
recovered1477
bettered?1533
resuscitated1576
wella1616
stout?1697
a hundred per cent1960
1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred xiv. 155 I don't feel a hundred per cent.
1965 V. Canning Whip Hand xi. 131 How's the arm?’ ‘It wasn't broken... It's almost a hundred per cent now.’
1965 N. Freeling Criminal Conversat. i. viii. 52 I wasn't quite well, not ill but not quite a hundred per cent, and he did make me better.
1967 I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face xv. 214 Actually, I'm not completely one hundred per cent.
1973 ‘D. Craig’ Bolthole ii. 30 He's been, well, off colour, yes. Not ill, but not a hundred per cent.
3. In the sale of various commodities, often used for a definite number greater than five score; see quots.: esp. great (also long) hundred (usually) = six score, or a hundred and twenty.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > definite or indefinite
certainc1374
quantitya1425
hundred1469
standard1545
'n1828
N1858
known1877
1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 102 Salt fishe for Lent..at 204 [sic, but ? error] to the hundred.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 13 §12 The nomber of the C. of shepe..in some countrey the great C where .vj. Score is accompted for the C.
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) 61 Of somme manner of fish the hundred containeth six score, and of some other sort, nine score.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 260/2 Ling, Cod, or Haberdine, have 124 to the Hundred.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Deal Boards are six Score to the Hundred, call'd the long Hundred.
1813 Q. Rev. 9 279 To take from ten to twenty thousand mackerel a-day at a price not exceeding ten shillings the hundred of six score, or a penny a-piece.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 16 Fresh herrings are sold from the vessel by the long hundred (130).
1886 Glasgow Her. 13 Sept. 4/2 A mease [of herring]..is five hundreds of 120 each.
4. Elliptical uses.
a. = hundredweight n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > hundredweight
quintal1401
hundred1543
hundredweight1577
a hundred gross1659
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. N.ii A hundred is not iust 100, but is 112 pound.
1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 322 Three hundred Weight of Coals make but a hundred of Coaks.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 37 This Ram is only four hundred and a half.
1838 Knickerbocker 11 15 When requested..to say how much flour she should make into bread, at their first baking, she answered..‘I suppose about a quarter of a hundred.’
1852 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 3 332 To dispose of the compound of acorns, ground nuts and carrion for $2 per hundred.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 373 We want a horse sixteen hands high, that will weigh fifteen hundred.
b. A hundred of some other weight, measure, or quantity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > that by which one measures > unit of measurement > multiples or fractions of units
hundred1538
1538 in E. Hobhouse Churchwardens' Accts. (1890) 152 Payd for ij hundryth of bords to make ye Church coffur .iiijs. viijd.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 20 An Hundred of Lime, being 25 Bushels, or an hundred Pecks.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 214 Oak is worth sawing 2s. 8d. per hundred,..That is the hundred Superficial Feet.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 320 Books of gold leaf contain twenty-five leaves. Gilders estimate their work by the number of ‘hundreds’, it will take (meaning one hundred leaves) instead of the number of books.
1888 10th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1887–8 15 At Jericho the average price paid was 86 cents a hundred for milk.
c. A hundred pounds (of money).
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a hundred pounds
hundred1542
century1859
ton1946
1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre sig. H.viiv The preste..maye dispende hondreds yearely, and do nought for it.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Eiiiv [He] may dispend some seuen or eight hundred a yeere. View more context for this quotation
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband ii. i. 31 I just made a couple of Betts with him, took up a cool hundred and so went to the King's Arms.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 263 He had lost a cool hundred, and would play no longer.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 70 I'll bett a cool hundred, he swings before Christmas.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. vi. 150 It..contained three bank-notes for one hundred each.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 257 Laying out a few hundreds.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. Sequel 317 Faith and I have three hundred a year between us.
d. A hundred years, a century. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century
secle?1533
siecle?1533
age1587
centenary1591
century1591
hundreda1656
cent.1687
centennium1828
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 298 Even in the second hundred (so antient..this festivity is).
1883 Longman's Mag. Oct. 638 Since the last year of the last ‘hunner’.
5. † c. Proverb. Obsolete.
a. In England (and subsequently in Ireland): a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court; also formerly applied to the court itself: cf. county n.1 1 Chiltern Hundreds: see Chiltern n. 2.Most of the English counties were divided into hundreds; but in some counties wapentakes, and in others wards, appear as divisions of a similar kind. The origin of the division into hundreds, which appears already in Old English times, is exceedingly obscure, and very diverse opinions have been given as to its origin. ‘It has been regarded as denoting simply a division of a hundred hides of land; as the district which furnished a hundred warriors to the host; as representing the original settlement of the hundred warriors; or as composed of a hundred hides, each of which furnished a single warrior’ (Stubbs Const. Hist. I. v. §45). ‘It is certain that in some instances the hundred was deemed to contain exactly 100 hides of land’ (F. W. Maitland). The hundred, Old High German (Alemannisch) huntari, huntre, was a subdivision of the gau in Ancient Germany; but connection between this and the English hundred is not clearly made out.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of shire or part of shire
hundredc1000
shire?c1225
wapentakea1500
shire-moot1614
wapentake court1658
hundred-court1671
hundred-mote1839
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > hundred
hundredc1000
cantreda1387
cantref1606
century1612
c1000 Laws of Edgar i. (title) Þis is seo gerædnyss, hu mon þæt hundred healdan sceal.
c1000 Laws of Edgar i. c. 3 And se man þe þis forsitte, and þæs hundredes dom forsace..gesylle man þam hundrede xxx peninga, and æt þam æfteran cyrre syxtig penega, half þam hundrede, half þam hlaforde.
c1000 Laws of Ethelred i. c. i. §2 Nime se hlaford twegen getreowe þegenas innan þam hundrede.
lOE William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum (1998) I. ii. §122. 188 Centurias quas dicunt hundrez, et decimas quas tithingas uocant instituit [Elfredus].
1292 Britton i. i. §13 En counteez et hundrez et en Court de chescun fraunc tenaunt.
1292 Britton i. iii. §7 De amercier nul homme en court de baroun ne en hundred.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 469 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 344 And thise assisours, that comen to shire and to hundred Damneth men for silver.
1449 J. Paston Petition in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 52 In the courtes of the hundred.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 307 Endytyd..by the enquest of Fovrhoo hundere.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 20 In Yorkshire ben xxij hondredis.
1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. vii. 409 There is..in every houndrethe one head counstable.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xii. f. 52.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 69 Thy sire Constable Of the hundred.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1656 (1955) III. 178 We went to Dedham... This is (as most are in Essex) a Clothing Towne, and lies in the unwholsome hundreds.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 7 From hence [sc. Tilbury Fort] there is nothing for many Miles together remarkable, but a continued Level of unhealthy Marshes, called The Three Hundreds, till we come before Leigh.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. iv. 115 As ten families of freeholders made up a town or tithing, so ten tithings composed a superior division, called a hundred, as consisting of ten times ten families.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 37 On a visit in the hundreds of Essex.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 96 The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace, and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake.
1876 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. (ed. 2) i. 3 It is impossible to trace the exact links of connexion between the hundreds of warriors who constituted the sub-divisions of the Teutonic army and the territorial hundred of later times; there can however be no question that the two are connected.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 38 Whereas by law the inhabitants of the hundred or other area in which property is damaged by persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together are liable in certain cases to pay compensation for such damage, and it is expedient to make other provision [etc.]..§5..the amount required to meet the said payments shall be raised as part of the police rate.
1888 Act 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41 §3 There shall be transferred to the council of each county..The making, assessing, and levying of county, police, hundred, and all rates.
1888 Act 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41 §100 The expression ‘division of a county’, in..this Act..includes any hundred, lathe, wapentake, or other like division.
b. A division of a county in the British American colonies or provinces of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, which still exists in the State of Delaware.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in U.S.A.
hundred1621
town1631
squadron1636
county1662
precinct1713
parish1772
back county1775
district1792
metropolitan district1817
1621 Ordin. Virginia 24 July in Stith Hist. Virginia App. iv. 33 The other council..shall consist for the present, of the said council of state, and of two burgesses out of every town, hundred, or other particular plantation.
1638 in Arch. Maryland (1885) III. 59 Whereas the west side of St. Georges river is now..thought fit to be erected into a hundred by the name of St. Georges hundred.
1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 21 Power to Divide the said Countrey and Islands, into Townes, Hundreds and Counties.
1815 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 72/1 The upper, or most northern county, is divided into nine hundreds.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlviii. 224 In Maryland hundreds, which still exist in Delaware, were for a long time the chief administrative divisions.
1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 210 At certain intervals..houses were put up, the occupants of which formed a guard..for the population of the Hundreds.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kivv What ye wan in thundred [sic], ye lost in the shere.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 113 Taxes, and Imposts vpon them [sc. merchants], doe seldome good to the Kings Reuenew; For that that he winnes in the Hundred, he leeseth in the Shire.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 342 They are Mr. Penniwise-Pound-foolish, and Mr. Get-ith'-hundred-and lose-ith'-shire. View more context for this quotation
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others
laugh and lie down1522
mack1548
decoyc1555
pinionc1557
to beat the knave out of doors1570
imperial1577
prima vista1587
loadum1591
flush1598
prime1598
thirty-perforce1599
gresco1605
hole1621
my sow's pigged1621
slam1621
fox-mine-host1622
whipperginnie1622
crimpa1637
hundred1636
pinache1641
sequence1653
lady's hole1658
quebas1668
art of memory1674
costly colours1674
penneech1674
plain dealing1674
wit and reason1680
comet1685
lansquenet1687
incertain1689
macham1689
uptails1694
quinze1714
hoc1730
commerce1732
matrimonya1743
tredrille1764
Tom come tickle me1769
tresette1785
snitch'ems1798
tontine1798
blind hazard1816
all fives1838
short cards1845
blind hookey1852
sixty-six1857
skin the lamb1864
brisque1870
handicap1870
manille1874
forty-five1875
slobberhannes1877
fifteen1884
Black Maria1885
slapjack1887
seven-and-a-half1895
pit1904
Russian Bank1915
red dog1919
fan-tan1923
Pelmanism1923
Slippery Sam1923
go fish1933
Russian Banker1937
racing demon1938
pit-a-pat1947
scopa1965
1636 W. Davenant Witts i. i. sig. C Their glad Sons are left seven for their chance, At Hazard, Hundred, and all made at Sent.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 238 As we do of Card-kings in playing at the Hundred.
7. hundreds and thousands: a name for very small comfits.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > small sweets
hundreds and thousands1894
Jimmy1949
dolly mixture1957
c1830 [Remembered in use].
1894 ‘G. Egerton’ Keynotes 137 Little cakes with hundreds and thousands on top.
1922 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 12 Aug. 234/1 There ought not to be anything but a plural for..the sweets called hundreds and thousands.
1932 A. Christie Thirteen Probl. i. 22 ‘Cooks nearly always put hundreds and thousands on trifle, dear,’ she said. ‘Those little pink and white sugar things.’
a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 60 Brandyballs, winegums, hundreds and thousands, liquorice sweet as sick.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 87 Little sugary pellets like hundreds and thousands.
Compounds
C1. (In sense 1 (or 2).)
a.
hundred-work n. sawyers' work paid for by the hundred (square feet).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > sawyers' work
draught1404
hundred-work1703
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 239 Some Sawyers claim it as a Custom, to have half Breaking-work, and the other half Hundred-work.
b.
(a) In adjective relation with a noun in the plural.
hundred-eyes n. (a name for) the plant Periwinkle (Vinca).
hundred-legs n. a centipede.
(b)
(i) Also with a noun in the singular, forming adjectival compounds, in sense ‘Having, containing, measuring, etc. a hundred (of what is denoted by the second element)’, as hundred-foot, hundred-franc, hundred-leaf, hundred-mesh, hundred-mile, hundred-petal, hundred-pound (e.g. a hundred-franc piece, a hundred-pound note).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > serving as a unit of measurement > containing a hundred of specific unit
hundred1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 83 To bring forth these hundred-leafe Roses.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2831/4 Lost..an Hundred Pound Bag.
1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 50 A bone breaking hundred mile road.
1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 264 A 100-foot shaft.
(ii)
hundred-pounder n. a cannon firing shot weighing a hundred pounds each (see pounder n.2).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot
fifteen-pounder1684
four-pounder1684
hundred-pounder1684
six-pounder1684
three-pounder1684
ten-pounder1695
nine-pounder1713
seven-pounder1762
long nine1780
half-pounder1800
twelve-pounder1801
sices1804
twelve1804
one-pounder1811
eighteen1834
eighteen-pounder1866
1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 109 Mortar-piece, a hundred pounder.
c. Parasynthetic.
hundred-citied adj.
ΚΠ
1855 C. Kingsley Theseus in Heroes ii. 237 Minos, the King of hundred-citied Crete.
hundred-footed adj.
ΚΠ
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 142 The Scolopendra or hundred footed insect. View more context for this quotation
hundred-gated adj.
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1745 E. Young Consolation 47 Thy Hundred-Gated Capitals?
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 131 The hundred-gated Thebes.
hundred-handed adj.
ΚΠ
1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 266 The hundred-handed Briareus.
hundred-headed adj.
ΚΠ
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cien cabeças Hundred headed thistle.
hundred-hued adj.
hundred leaved adj. (esp. in hundred-leaved rose)
ΚΠ
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Rose-tree The hundred-leav'd Rose, without smell.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 336 The petals of the Hundred-leaved Rose.
1864 S. Hibberd Rose Bk. 6 R. Damascena, R. Gallica, and R. centifolia, constitute together the section of Centifolium, or hundred-leaved roses.
hundred-throated adj.
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 214 As 'twere a hundred-throated nightingale.
C2. (In sense 5.)† hundred-man n. Obsolete (Old English hundredes-man) the constable or officer of the hundred; = hundreder n. 1.† hundred-mote n. Obsolete the assembly of the hundred, the hundred-court.† hundred-penny n. Obsolete a tax or payment anciently levied in a hundred.
hundred-court n. in English History the court having civil and criminal jurisdiction within a territorial hundred.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of shire or part of shire
hundredc1000
shire?c1225
wapentakea1500
shire-moot1614
wapentake court1658
hundred-court1671
hundred-mote1839
society > law > legal power > [noun] > extent or range of jurisdiction > a district > under specific jurisdiction
sheriffdom1385
wardenry1462
the verge (of the court)1529
sheriffwick1535
circuit1574
territoryc1626
Home Circuit1664
hundred-court1671
byrlaw1850
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 508 Unless he could not in the Century, or Hundred-Court obtain any Remedy.
1789 W. Hutton (title) History of the Hundred Court.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 104 The hundred court was entitled to declare folk right in every suit.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > hundreder
hundred-mana1000
hundreder1455
centenary1616
centurion1618
centenier1646
centgrave1647
hundredary1700
a1000 Laws of Edgar i. c. 2 Gyf neod on handa stande, cyðe hit man þam hundredes-men, and he syððan þam teoðing-mannum.
a1000 Laws of Edgar i. c. 4 Buton he hæbbe þæs hundredes mann[es] gewitnyssa, oððe þæs teoðingmannes.
1235–52 in C. J. Elton Rentalia et Custumaria (1891) (Som. Rec. Soc.) 210 Et namiat cum hundredmanno in hundredo.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 102 On analogy..we may fairly maintain that the original hundred-man or hundredes-ealdor was an elected officer, and the convener and constituting functionary of the court which he held.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of shire or part of shire
hundredc1000
shire?c1225
wapentakea1500
shire-moot1614
wapentake court1658
hundred-court1671
hundred-mote1839
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 77 The Hundred also had its Court, named the Hundred or Folc-Mote.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §3. 125 The Charter was..sworn to at every hundred-mote.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > payments levied by sheriff
hundred-penny1189
sheriff's tooth1298
shire-wyte1425
sheriff gloves1528
sheriff fee1603
1189–95 Charter in Wetherhal Register (1897) 30 Et omnes terræ ad eam pertinentes..sint quiete..de hundredpeni et de thethingepeni et de legerwite.
1293 Rolls Parl. I. 115/1 Liberi et quieti ab omni Scotto..et de Hidagio..Hundredespeny, Borchafpeny, Thethyngpeny.
Draft additions March 2021
Weaving (chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and North American).† a. That breadth of warp which spans a hundred dents of the reed on which it is woven; a set of a hundred dents on the reed of a loom. Hence: a unit for expressing the fineness of texture of woven cloth. Obsolete.The greater the number of hundreds in cloth of a given width, the finer its weave.
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1712 J. Beaumont Math. Sleaing Tables 15 Half a Hundred of that Warp, or one hundred Threads of that Yarn, twenty yards long on the warping-bars, will weigh four Ounces, eight Drams.
1734 A. B. Let. to Author of Interest Scotl. 9 A very good Warp may be made for forty Yards of Cloth of any Hundred, from 1200 to 2000.
1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland I. 103/2 The manufacture of linen, of a texture from nine to fourteen hundreds, is extensively carried on throughout the parish.
1914 T. Woodhouse & T. Milne Jute & Linen Weaving (ed. 2) iii. 9 If the threads in the cloth be counted [in the glass], the number will be the reed in hundreds.
b. With preceding numeral. Used as a modifier to designate linen or other cloth woven using a reed (usually of a standard length) which has a specified number of hundreds of dents, as in ten-hundred cloth, seventeen-hundred linen, etc. Now rare.Formerly also used to designate the reed (reed n.1 11b) of such cloth, or the physical reed on which it is woven, as in †ten-hundred reed, etc. (obsolete).
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1712 J. Beaumont Math. Sleaing Tables 41 Suppose the Ten hundred Cloth is Yard and quarter wide, you will find that Cloth to weigh thirteen Pound, fifteen Ounces, and twelve Drams.
1763 Papers coll. by Number of Linen-drapers (ed. 2) 32 It is as proper for a Weaver to have a 13, a 14, a 16, or a 17 Hundred Reed, as any of the Kinds in this Sect. named.
1846 Daily News 4 Nov. 3/1 The plain goods range in fineness from a twenty-two hundred reed to a forty hundred one.
1935 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 21 Dec. 11/8 Do you realize what marvelous values those hand-made handkerchiefs are which Sage-Allen are selling for 35 cents? You get an idea of their sheerness when I tell you that they are twenty-hundred linen.
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