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Viking :: Viking (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries..

Eighth :: Eighth (a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.

Value :: Value (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/]..

Ninth :: Ninth (n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc..

Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..

August :: August (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..

Octave :: Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe..

Dram :: Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains..

Span :: Span (v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

Endorse :: Endorse (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)..

Eighthly :: Eighthly (adv.) As the eighth in order.

Queen :: Queen (v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn..

Eighteenth :: Eighteenth (n.) The eighth after the tenth.

H :: H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in ch

Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..

Quaver :: Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Eighth :: Eighth (a.) Next in order after the seventh.

Octant :: Octant (n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant..

Levy :: Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d..

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