Meanings
noun
- archaicOne hundred and forty.
Thou shalt live a merry life within the woodlands, and sevenscore good companions shalt thou have, one of whom is mine own self.
1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 731 more example
[I]n the very houſe or grange that I was borne in, my Mother and her maides made all the Whitmeate of ſeuenſcore kine and odde.
1588, Bartholomew Dowe, “A Dialogue betweene a South-hamshyre Woman and a Suffolke Man concerning Making of Whitmeate”, in A Dairie Booke for Good Huswiues. […], London: […] J[ohn] C[harlewood] for Thomas Hacket, […], →OCLC, signature A3, recto
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