fourscore

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Eighty.

   • Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats.
   • Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe.
   • “I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
2. 2

   A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.

3. 3

   A quantity or amount of eighty.

   • W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years.

The neighborhood

• neighborfour score and seven years ago
• neighbortwoscore