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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

: cf. AS.

seofonteóða

seofonteogeða

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

In . . . the

seventeenth

day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up.

Gen. vii. 11.

Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Noun.

The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

(Mus.)

An interval of two octaves and a third.

Adj.

[from seventeen.] The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth.

On the seventeenth day of the second month- all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. Gen. 7.