Five (?), a. [OE. fif, five, AS. fif, fife; akin to D. vijf, OS. fif, OHG. finf, funf, G. funf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. coic, L. quinque, Gr. , Aeol. , Skr. pacan. 303. Cf. Fifth, Cinque, Pentagon, Punch the drink, Quinary.]
Four and one added; one more than four.
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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Five (?), n.
1.
The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Matt. xxv. 2.
2.
A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
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