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| Arabic numeral |
any of the symbols for the numbers zero through nine; 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. |
| baseball |
a game played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each, the object being to score runs by advancing runners around four bases. [1/2 definitions] |
| digit |
any of the whole numbers from zero through nine. [1/2 definitions] |
| February |
the second month of the year. February usually has twenty-eight days, but it has twenty-nine days in a leap year. |
| golf |
a game played on a large outdoor course with small holes in the ground spaced far apart. Players use a set of special clubs to hit a small white ball into each of the series of holes. There are nine or eighteen holes in a golf course. The object of the game is to get the ball into each hole using as few strokes as possible. [1/2 definitions] |
| high school |
a school that begins with grades nine or ten and ends with grade twelve. |
| junior high school |
a school between elementary school and high school; middle school. Junior high school usually includes grades seven, eight, and nine. |
| menorah |
a candlestick with seven or nine branches, used in Jewish worship. |
| Muse |
any of the nine Greek goddesses of the arts and sciences. [1/2 definitions] |
| nine |
being nine in number. [1/3 definitions] |
| ninety |
the number that is equal to nine times ten; 90. [1/2 definitions] |
| ninth |
one of nine equal parts of a whole; 1/9. [1/3 definitions] |
| tick-tack-toe |
a game for two players who take turns marking either an X or an O on a grid of nine squares. The winner is the first player who fills in three squares in a row with the same mark. |
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