nine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The cardinal number equal to 8 + 1.
2. n. The ninth in a set or sequence.
3. n. Something having nine parts, units, or members.
4. n. Games A playing card marked with nine pips.
5. n. A set of nine persons or things, especially:
6. n. Baseball The nine players on a side, or the whole team.
7. n. Greek Mythology The nine Muses.
8. n. A size, as in clothing or shoes, designated as nine.
9. n. Sports The first or second 9 holes of an 18-hole golf course.
10. idiom. to the nines Informal To the highest degree: dressed to the nines.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. One more than eight, or one less than ten; thrice three: a cardinal numeral.
2. n. The number consisting of the sum of one and eight; the number less by unity than ten; three times three.
3. n. A symbol representing nine units, as 9, or IX, or ix.
4. n. The body of players, nine in number, composing one side in a game of base-ball.
5. n. A playing-card with nine spots or pips on it.

Wiktionary

1. n. cardinal A numerical value equal to 9; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
2. n. Describing a set or group with nine components.
3. n. The digit or figure 9.
4. n. card games A playing card with nine pips.
5. n. weaponry A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
6. n. computing, engineering, usually in plural A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Eight and one more; one less than ten.
2. n. The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
3. n. A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
4. n. A group of nine people.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
2. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
3. n. a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
4. adj. denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten