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(1):

(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

(2):

(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

(3):

(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.

(4):

(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

(5):

(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

(6):

(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.

(7):

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

(8):

(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tenth'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tenth.html. 1828.
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