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Definition of Eighty-seven
1. Adjective. Being seven more than eighty.
Definition of Eighty-seven
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-six and preceding eighty-eight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-seven
Literary usage of Eighty-seven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN eighty-seven GENERATIONS IN A PARTHENO- GENETIC PURE LINE OF
APHIS AVEN/E FAB. HE EWING. The chief features of my work with Aphis ..."
2. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"... north eighty-seven degrees and three- quarters west one hundred and thirty-two
perches, south seventy- five degrees and ten minutes west two hundred and ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1910)
"These are divided into groups of thoroughbreds, representing the English, Arab
and Anglo-Arab, five hundred and sixty-five, or sixteen and eighty-seven ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Tu the general astonishment, when the second reading was moved in the Upper House,
the Opposition proposed an adjournment, and carried it by eighty-seven ..."
5. The Life of James McNeill Whistler by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell (1908)
"THE YEARS EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-FIVE TO EIGHTEEN eighty-seven IN 1885, while we were
still in Italy, Whistler moved from Tite Street and took a studio at No. ..."
6. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"This excess, which is annually increasing, has placed eighty-seven in waiting
until vacancies shall take place, and show that in the next year, probably, ..."
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