n. [ OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr. çata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.] 1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. [1913 Webster]

With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak. [1913 Webster]

☞ The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. [1913 Webster]

2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. [1913 Webster]

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hundred times as much or as many. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2, 000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton. [ 1913 Webster ]