Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ten"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ten \Ten\, n.
1. The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and
five; ten units of objects.
I will not destroy it for ten's sake. --Gen. xviii.
32.
2. A symbol representing ten units, as 10, {x}, or {X}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ten \Ten\, a. [AS. t[=e]n, ti['e]n, t?n, t[=e]ne; akin to
OFries. tian, OS. tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG. zehan, Icel.
t[=i]u, Sw. tio, Dan. ti, Goth. ta['i]hun, Lith. deszimt,
Russ. desiate, W. deg, Ir. & Gael. deich, L. decem, Gr. ?,
Skr. da[,c]an. [root]308. Cf. {Dean}, {Decade}, {Decimal},
{December}, {Eighteen}, {Eighty}, {Teens}, {Tithe}.]
One more than nine; twice five.
With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea.
--Dryden.
Note: Ten is often used, indefinitely, for several, many, and
other like words.
There 's proud modesty in merit, Averse from
begging, and resolved to pay Ten times the gift
it asks. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ten
adj : being one more than nine [syn: {10}, {x}]
n : the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the
base of the decimal system [syn: {10}, {X}, {tenner}, {decade}]
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