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Eight   /eɪt/   Listen
adjective
Eight  adj.  Seven and one; as, eight years.


noun
Eight  n.  An island in a river; an ait. (Obs.) "Osiers on their eights."


Eight  n.  
1.
The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
2.
A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.





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"Eight" Quotes from Famous Books



... suspended sentence had not a detective who had been engaged in the Clark robbery case passed his cell in the Tombs. The detective recognized the famous Billy Coleman, whose police record dated back to 1869, showing thirteen arrests and a total period of twenty-eight years in prison. ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... may be introduced which will entirely modify all we have taken pains to say. It is a but. But is an entire discourse. We no longer believe what has been said hitherto, but what follows this word. This conjunction has a value of eight degrees, a value possible to all conjunctions without exception. It sums up the changes indicated by subsequent expressions, and embraces them synthetically. It has, then, a very ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various
... such change possible: they must cease to deceive, they must repent, they must acknowledge that labor is not a curse, but the glad business of life. "But what will be the result if I do toil for ten, or eight, or five hours at physical work, which thousands of peasants will gladly perform for the money which I possess?" ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... Arabic name was Abu Amran Musa Ben Maimum Obaid Alla el-Cordovi, who was called by his Jewish compatriots Ramban or Rambam, was born at Cordova in Spain, on the 30th of March in 1135 or 1139, the year is in doubt. It might not seem of much import now after nearly eight centuries, but not a little ink is spilt over ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... said Herbert, "ought to be 'four cows,' but I keep on making it 'eight and tuppence.' Just have a shot at it, there's a good fellow. I promised the ...
— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne


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