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forty

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forty
1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
2. a numeral, 40, XL, etc., representing this number


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(say) forty thousand pounds--and, I fear, no remittances to cover them.
The first time he had lifted the chant of "Like Argus of the Ancient Times," had been in 1849, when, twenty-two years' of age, violently attacked by the Californian fever, he had sold two hundred and forty Michigan acres, forty of it cleared, for the price of four yoke of oxen, and a wagon, and had started across the Plains.
Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party.
 
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