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threescore | fourscore |

As a noun threescore

is (archaic) sixty (60).

As a numeral fourscore is

eighty.

threescore

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) Sixty. (60)
    • And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore ; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. – 9:13
  • * 1874 , , XXI:
    • Words cannot picture her; but all men know
    That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought
    Three centuries and threescore years ago
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

    See also

    *score *fourscore English cardinal numbers

    fourscore

    English

    Numeral

    (head)
  • Eighty.
  • * , Numbers IV:48:
    • Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore .
  • * 1863 , (Abraham Lincoln), ‘Gettysburg Address’:
    • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.