Definition of eighth

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

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Rondel :: Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth..
Acetable :: Acetable (n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..
Hair''sbreadth :: Hair'sbreadth () The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch..
Eighteenth :: Eighteenth (n.) The eighth after the tenth.
Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..
Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..
Ribbon :: Ribbon (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide..
Furlong :: Furlong (a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
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..
Eighth :: Eighth (a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
Finger :: Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..
Octennial :: Octennial (a.) Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years..
Group :: Group (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes..
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..
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 [/]..
Endorse :: Endorse (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)..
Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The interval of an octave.
Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
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