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Definition of Seventeens
1. seventeen [n] - See also: seventeen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventeens
Literary usage of Seventeens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shorthorn Cattle: A Series of Historical Sketches, Memoirs and Records of by Alvin Howard Sanders (1918)
"It is apparent from the ratings in these competitions that the ''seventeens" were
of good form and character, and that the Kentucky breeders had kept pace ..."
2. Food from the Far West: Or, American Agriculture : with Special Reference to by James Macdonald (1878)
"Even the most bitter opponents of the " seventeens" will frankly admit that, in
point of individual merit, they are one of the best families in America, ..."
3. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"... the following procedure produces a list of 2n seventeens: (define seventeens
... (cons 17 (seventeens (- n 1))))))) Exercise 7.44 Consider the following ..."
4. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"... are known as "The seventeens " were imported in 1817 by Colonel Lewis Sanders
of Kentucky, and included four bulls and four heifers. ..."
5. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"Why such frantic horror at the " seventeens," 1 requiring that a book be written
blacklisting literally thousands of the best animals of the breed ? ..."
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