immediately following twenty-six and preceding twenty-eight. seven and twenty Arabic numerals: 27 Roman numerals: XXVII twenty-seven twenty-six twenty-eight...
(plural great toes) (dated, anatomy) big toe 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXVII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club...
the inhabitants of the Caribbean he charged that their god is the devil (XXVII, 45), the women are lascivious and the men are sodomisers, lazy, deceitful...
(figuratively, idiomatic) In jail, in prison. 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26...
Christ) (Christianity) Any bishop. 1964, Pope Paul VI, Lumen Gentium, III. xxvii: Bishops, as vicars and ambassadors of Christ, govern the particular churches...
(plural loungers) One who lounges; an idler. 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon...
Emperor, Concerning Himſelf, book X, page 205, § XXVII (5th edition; first published in 1634) XXVII. Ever to mind and conſider with thy ſelf, how all...
When Bilkis Queen of Sheba discovered her legs by lifting her robe (Koran xxvii.), Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils...
that there was great restraint upon us. c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXVII, in The Claverings[1]: And she had no love for the sea specially, regarding...
December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London:...