Definition of "fivescore" [fivescore]

• Hundred (noun)

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• "Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger -- love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die."
• "The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest."
• "So journeyed this strangely assorted couple down to old Fort Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to Stuart River."