Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEV'EN-TEENTH
SEV'EN-TEENTH, a. [from seventeen. The Saxon seofonteotha or seofon-teogetha is differently formed.]
The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth. On the seventeenth day of the second month … all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. – Gen. vii.
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