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   five hundred
         adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
                  [syn: {five hundred}, {500}, {d}]
         n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
               five [syn: {five hundred}, {500}, {D}]
         2: a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards
            and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
            [syn: {euchre}, {five hundred}]

English Dictionary: Five Nations by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Five Nations
n
  1. a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
    Synonym(s): Iroquois League, League of Iroquois, Five Nations, Six Nations
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
five-hundredth
adj
  1. the ordinal number of five hundred in counting order
    Synonym(s): five-hundredth, 500th
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
five-needled
adj
  1. (of conifers) having five needles
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fee \Fee\ (f[emac]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property,
      money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of
      [bd]property, money,[b8] arising from cattle being used in
      early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property
      chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle,
      property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel.
      f[emac] cattle, property, money, Goth. fa[a1]hu, L. pecus
      cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa[cced]u cattle, perh.
      orig., [bd]a fastened or tethered animal,[b8] from a root
      signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf.
      OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the
      same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. [root]249.
      Cf. {Feud}, {Fief}, {Fellow}, {Pecuniary}.]
      1. property; possession; tenure. [bd]Laden with rich fee.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
                     Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.
  
      2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be
            rendered; especially, payment for professional services,
            of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge;
            pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians;
            the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage
            fees, etc.
  
                     To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a
            stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so
            held; a fief.
  
      4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held
            either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and
            absolutely vested in the owner.
  
      Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of
               this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land
               which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who
               are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by
               fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a
               qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence
               of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee
               tail, which is limited to particular heirs.
               --Blackstone.
  
      5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the
            owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and
            simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
  
      {Fee estate} (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in
            consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered
            to the lord.
  
      {Fee farm} (Law), land held of another in fee, in
            consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty,
            or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment;
            an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent.
            --Blackstone.
  
      {Fee farm rent} (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a
            conveyance in fee simple.
  
      {Fee fund} (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the
            clerks and other court officers are paid.
  
      {Fee simple} (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions
            or limits.
  
                     Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a
                     quarter.                                             --Shak.
  
      {Fee tail} (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and
            restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a
      being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for
      gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [fb]44. See
      {Kin} kindred, and cf. {Cognate}, {Natal}, {Native}.]
      1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth,
            distinguished from the rest by common descent, language,
            or institutions; a race; a stock.
  
                     All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
                                                                              --Rev. vii. 9.
  
      2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an
            independent government of their own.
  
                     A nation is the unity of a people.      --Coleridge.
  
                     Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a
                     nation.                                             --F. S. Key.
  
      3. Family; lineage. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      4.
            (a) One of the divisions of university students in a
                  classification according to nativity, formerly common
                  in Europe.
            (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named
                  from the parts of Scotland) in which students were
                  classified according to their nativity.
  
      5. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a
            nation of herbs. --Sterne.
  
      {Five nations}. See under {Five}.
  
      {Law of nations}. See {International law}, under
            {International}, and {Law}.
  
      Syn: people; race. See {People}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Five nations} (Ethnol.), a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois
            Indians, consisting of five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas,
            Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region
            which is now the State of new York.
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