Hun"dred (hŭn"dr&ebreve;d), n.
[OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division;
hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to
count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS.
hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert,
OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan.
hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth.
hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant,
Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr.
çata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century,
Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.]
1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the
number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times
ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one
hundred units, as 100 or C.
With many hundreds treading on his
heels.
Shak.
&fist; The word hundred, as well as thousand,
million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say
hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects
or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like
five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually
intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten
hundreds are one thousand.
2. A division of a country in England,
supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or
freemen.
Hundred court, a court held for all the
inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.
Hun"dred, a. Ten times ten; five
score; as, a hundred dollars.
