Sev"en*teenth` (?), a. [From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteóða,
seofonteogeða.] 1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after
sixteen others.
In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up.
Gen. vii. 11.
2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which
anything is divided.
Sev"en*teenth` (?), n. 1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one
coming after sixteen others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal
parts or divisions of one whole.