n. 1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Mus.) An interval of two octaves and a third. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteóða, seofonteogeða. ] 1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. [ 1913 Webster ]
In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]