Sev"enth (?), a. [From Seven: cf. AS. seofoða.] 1. Next in order after
the sixth;; coming after six others.
On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen. ii. 2.
2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything
is divided; as, the seventh part.
Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. -- Seventh-day
Baptists. See under Baptist.
Sev"enth, n. 1. One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six
others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts
into which anything is divided.
3. (Mus.) (a) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the
scale. (b) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether
major, minor, or diminished.
Sev`en-thir"ties (?), n. pl. A name given to three several issues of
United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in
denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven
and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few
years they were all redeemed or funded.
Sev"enth*ly (?), adv. In the seventh place.
Sev"en*ti*eth (?), a. [AS. hund- seofontigoða.] 1. Next in order after
the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.