2. The next in order after the eighty- ninth.

Nine"ty (?), a. [See Nine, and cf. Forty.] Nine times ten; eighty-nine

and one more; as, ninety men.

Nine"ty, n.; pl. Nineties (&?;). 1. The sum of nine times ten; the

number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.