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seventeen (iou) and coot (sh)


seventeen (iou)



seventeen adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).
[Old English seofontiene = Old Frisian soventene, Old High German, (German siebzehn), Old Norse sjautjan, from Germanic base of SEVEN adjective & noun, -TEEN.]
A. adjective. One more than sixteen (a cardinal numeral represented by 17 in Arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman). OE.
J. Morley A Lyons silk weaver, working..for over seventeen hours a day.
b. noun.
Seventeen persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, points, runs, etc. in a game, chances (in giving odds), minutes, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. ME.
sweet seventeen: see SWEET adjective & adverb.
J. L. Motley Of the tenders and zabras, seventeen were lost. Westminster Gazette Seventeen are filled with four-cylinder engines.
One more than sixteen as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (17 in Arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman). LME.
The seventeenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventeen, (usu. number seventeen, or with specification, as book seventeen, chapter seventeen, etc.); a size etc. denoted by seventeen, a garment etc. of such a size, (also size seventeen). E16.
A set of seventeen; a thing having a set of seventeen as an essential or distinguishing feature. L20.
Comb.: Forming compound cardinal numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 517 (read five hundred and seventeen, US also five hundred seventeen), etc. In dates used for one thousand seven hundred, as 1715 (read seventeen fifteen), seventeen-nineties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having seventeen s', as seventeen-tonner, seventeen-wheeler, etc. Special combs., as seventeen-hunder linen Scot. linen in the weaving of which 1700 threads go to the warp; seventeen-year cicada, seventeen-year locust an American cicada, Magicicada septendecim, whose nymphs emerge in large numbers periodically in a 17-year (or, in the south, a 13-year) cycle (cf. THIRTEEN-year cicada).

coot (sh)




Any of 10 species of ducklike waterbirds (genus Fulica) in the rail family.

Coots are found worldwide in larger inland waters and streams, where they swim and bob for Food, mostly plants, seeds, mollusks, and worms. They have greenish or bluish gray feet, with toes fringed by a lobed membrane that helps them swim and walk over marshes. The short conical beak is topped by a flattened, fleshy shield that extends onto the forehead. The European coot is about 18 in. (45 cm) long and weighs 2 lbs (900 g). The coot of North America resembles the European species.


Mud hen (Fulica americana)

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