Hundred

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 24

(hun'drěd; commonly pron. hun'dŭrd.) [Ger. hundert.] (Topog.) In England, a part or division of a county:- anciently so called from its containing 100 families, or from its furnishing 100 soldiers for the wars of the sovereign.-In the State of Delaware, U. S., the cos. are subdivided into hundreds. [s. 466]