HUNDRED

(A.-S. hund, hundred; red signifies computation), Eng. numeral.| The h. as a division of the shire may have been originally the land inhabited by 100| families; tradition ascribed the institu-|in tion of the h. to Alfred the Great,but it is| probably much older; divi-ions corresponding to the h. are called wards; nN., wapentakes in Yorks and Midlands, ‘rape in Su ex, lathe in Kent.