Nine

nīn, adj. and n. eight and one.— n. Nine′-eyes , a popular name for the young lampreys found in rivers.— adj. Nine′fold , nine times folded or repeated.— ns. Nine′holes , a game in which a ball is to be bowled into nine holes in the ground or a board; Nine′pins , a game at bowls, a form of skittles, so called from nine pins being set up to be knocked down by a ball.— adj. Nine′-score , nine times twenty.— n. the number of nine times twenty.— adj. and n. Nine′teen , nine and ten.— adj. Nine′teenth , the ninth after the tenth: being one of nineteen equal parts.— n. a nineteenth part.— adj. Nine′tieth , the last of ninety: next after the eighty-ninth.— n. a ninetieth part.— adj. and n. Nine′ty , nine tens.— adj. Ninth , the last of nine: next after the eighth.— n. one of nine equal parts.— adv. Ninth′ly , in the ninth place.— Nine days' wonder (see Wonder ); Nine men's morris (see Morris ); Nine worthies , Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Cæsar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabæus, Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon; The nine , the nine muses (see Muse ); To the nines , to perfection, fully, elaborately. [A.S. nigon ; Dut. negen , L. novem , Gr. ennea , Sans. nav an .]