Forty-niner

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• Forty

  ·adj Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more. II. Forty ·noun The sum of four tens; forty units or...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Forty-spot

  ·noun The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus). ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• forty-legs

  n. name given to a millipede, Cermatia smithii. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• forty-spot

  n. name for a bird,a Pardalote (q.v.). Pardalote itself meansspotted «like the pard.» See also Diam...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• forty-thieves

  A name given to forty line-of-battle ships ordered by the Admiralty at one fell swoop, to be built b...

  The Sailor's Word-Book