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Tenth
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(2):
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(3):
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
(4):
(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(5):
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(6):
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(7):
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(8):
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tenth'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tenth.html. 1828.
