witness(1) (iou) and fifty (iou)

witness(1) (iou)

witness noun.
[Old English witnes, from wit WIT noun + -nes -NESS.]
Knowledge, understanding, wisdom. OE-L15.
Attestation of a fact, event, or statement; testimony, evidence. Also spec., open profession or testimony (to the power) of one's religious faith through one's actions or words. OE.
B. Jowett Agamemnon..if the witness of Homer be accepted, brought the greatest number of ships. M. L. King The early Christians..made a triumphant witness for Christ. A. S. Byatt To..recount the true pre-history of the race through the witness of folk-tale and legend.
b. The inward testimony of the conscience (after 2 Corinthians 1:12). ME.
A person who gives evidence concerning matters of fact under investigation; spec. a person who gives evidence on oath or affirmation in a court of justice or judicial inquiry. OE.
Guardian A key witness for the prosecution..told the court he was hired to attack the bouncer.
A person who is called on, selected, or appointed to be present at a transaction, so as to be able to testify to its having taken place; spec. (more fully, attesting witness, subscribing witness) a person who is present at the execution of a document and subscribes it in attestation thereof. OE.
b. A sponsor or godparent at baptism. L16-M19.
Attestation by signature, oath, etc. Chiefly in legal contexts, as in witness of, in witness hereof, in witness whereof, etc. ME.
A person present at an event etc. and able to provide information about it from personal observation. Usu. foll. by of, to. ME.
ear-witness, eyewitness, etc.
J. S. C. Abbott I have been..witness to the singular effect which the sound of a bell had upon Napoleon. Guardian Witnesses said the aircraft..ploughed into several cars before breaking in two.
b. God, heaven, or a person invoked for confirmation, to attest to one's actions, etc. Freq. in (as) God is my witness, be my witness that, call to witness below. ME.
Dryden That still I love, I call to Witness al the Pow'rs above.
A person or thing whose existence, condition, etc. attests or proves something; a token. Freq. foll. by to, of. ME.
E. A. Freeman Gifts yet more costly were now the witness of his personal presence. I. Colegate The..gallery which he was letting without rent..was there as witness to his concern with things Other than profit.
b. Introducing a name, designation, phrase, or clause denoting a person who or thing which provides evidence of the fact or exemplifies the statement. Also as witness. ME.
V. Woolf He was of course a gentleman; witness socks and trousers.
c. spec. In textual criticism, a manuscript or an early version which is regarded as evidence of authority for the text. Usu. in pl. M19.
A person who testifies for Christ or the Christian faith by his or her actions or words; formerly esp. a martyr. LME.
b. = Jehovah's Witness s.v. JEHOVAH noun. Orig. US. M20.
Phrases: as witness: see sense 7b above. auricular witness: see AURICULAR adjective 4. bear witness: see BEAR verb1. call to witness appeal to for confirmation etc. hearsay witness: see HEARSAY noun. hostile witness: see HOSTILE adjective 2. in witness (obsolete exc. as in sense 5 above) as proof (of). Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah Witness: see JEHOVAH. with a witness arch. with clear evidence, without a doubt; with a vengeance.
Comb.: witness-box an enclosure in a lawcourt from which witnesses give evidence; witness-stand: see STAND noun1 12b.

fifty (iou)

fifty adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).

A. adjective.
Five times ten (a cardinal numeral represented by 50 in Arabic numerals, l, L in roman). OE.
Browning The new edition fifty volumes long. Tennyson Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
A large indefinite number of. E19.
H. S. Blackwood I'll not forget old Ireland, Were it fifty times as fair.
b. noun.
Fifty persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, points, runs, etc., in a game, chances (in giving odds), etc. OE.
Leigh Hunt A corpulent man of fifty.
A set of fifty; a thing having a set of fifty as an essential or distinguishing feature; spec. a fifty-pound note or fifty-dollar bill. OE.
Bible (AV): 2 Kings 1:13 Hee sent againe a captaine of the third fiftie, with his fiftie.
Five times ten as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (50 in Arabic numerals, l, L in roman). LME.
The fiftieth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated fifty, (usu. number fifty, or with specification, as chapter fifty, verse fifty, etc.); a size etc. denoted by fifty (also size fifty). E16.
In pl. The numbers from 50 to 59 inclusive, esp. denoting years of a century or units of a scale of temperature; one's years of life between the ages of 50 and 59. L19.
R. B. Anderson A series of works published in the fifties and sixties.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals (cardinal or ordinal) with numerals below ten, as fifty-nine (59), fifty-ninth (59th), etc., and (cardinals) with multiples of a hundred, as 350 (read three hundred and fifty, US also three hundred fifty), etc. Special combs., as fifty-fifty adverb & adjective (colloq., orig. US) (on a basis of) fifty per cent, with equal shares, half-and-half; fifty-year rule a rule that public records should normally become open to inspection fifty years after their compilation.
fiftyfold adjective & adverb (a) adjective fifty times as great or as numerous; having fifty parts, divisions, elements, or units; (b) adverb to fifty times the number or quantity: OE.
fiftyish adjective about fifty (in age, measurements, etc.) E20.

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