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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eighty \Eight"y\, adjective [AS. eahtatig, where the ending -tig is akin to English ten; cf. G. achtzig. See {Eight}, and {Ten}.] Eight times ten; fourscore.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eighty \Eight"y\, noun
1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eighty
adjective: being ten more than seventy [syn: {80}, {lxxx}, {fourscore}]
noun: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight [syn: {80}, {LXXX}, {fourscore}]
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