Cardinal number as adj.: twenty; also, ?of or pertaining to the number twenty [quot. ?c1475]; ~ and mo, over twenty (hunting dogs), a large number of.

In phrases and combs.: (a) ~ sithes, ~ time(s, twenty times;—used adverbially; also, in expressions of multiplication: seven (sixtene, etc.) sith ~, seven (sixteen, etc.) times twenty (gates, ships, etc.); (b) ~ cubite gret, twenty cubits long, thirty feet long; ~ daies yong, a twenty days' journey; ~ fot worm, ?a millipede; ~ fot of brede, twenty feet in width; (c) in adv. constructions: ~ fadme(s in (of, on) brede, for about one hundred and twenty feet in width; ~ mile and mo, over twenty miles in distance; ~ spere lengthe, as high as the length of twenty spears; ~ winter (passed, for (the past) twenty years; ~ yer, for a period of twenty years; also, within a twenty-year period [last quot.]; at ~ daies ende, at the end of twenty days; in) ~ daies, for a period of twenty days; on) ~ fot on heighte, to a height of twenty feet; (d) in expressions of age: ~ winter age, a) ~ winter olde, of ~ yer(es of age, of ~ yer of elde, of) ~ yer olde, twenty years of age, twenty years old; (e) ~ pounde (of) weghte; ~ pounde worth lond, a quantity of land valued at twenty pounds; twentiȝe scillinga iwighte, the weight of twenty shillings; (f) in oaths and exclamations: a ~ devel wei (name), in ~ devel (develes) wei, etc.

Cardinal number as noun: (a) twenty men, twenty friends, twenty knights, etc.; ten other ~, between ten and twenty monks; bi ~ and bi ten, bi ten bi ~, in indefinitely large numbers; two wane of ~, two years short of twenty, twenty years less two, eighteen years; (b) twenty as an abstract number; (c) used adverbially: twenty times [cp. quot. 1440 in sense 1b.(a)].

Ordinal number: (a) as adj.: twentieth; (b) as noun: the twentieth day, the twentieth division of troops.

In compound numbers: (a) as cardinal number: ~ and six, four (nin, on, etc.) and ~; ~ score (hundred, thousand, thousandes); on hundred and five and ~, o thousand and nin and ~, etc.; bi ~ thousandfold, by twenty thousand times; of a ~ yer and thre, twenty-three years old; (b) as ordinal number: on (five, etc.) and ~, one (five, etc.) and twentieth, twenty-first (twenty-fifth, etc.); on god fri-dai ~ and five, on Good Friday the twenty-fifth, specif. March 25.

In surnames and place name.