Wiktionary
card. The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.
WordNet
adj. being one more than thirty [syn: 31, xxxi]
Wikipedia
Thirty-one (French Trente et un) is a gambling card game played by two to seven people, where players attempt to assemble a hand which totals 31. Such a goal has formed the whole or part of various games like Commerce, Cribbage, Trentuno, and Wit and Reason since the 15th century.
The game is also known as Big Tonka, Nickel Nock, Blitz, Clinker, Klinker, Skat, Cadillac in south Louisiana and Mississippi, Cad in Pennsylvania, Whammy! in central Indiana, and as Skedaddle, Snip Snap Snoop, Schnautz and Schnitzel in other countries.
Usage examples of "thirty-one".
He was the sole salesman, and had been since Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one, He was the man who had released from the hot cage of his hands and into this enchanted space the first two prothonotary warblers.
The boy had been dead for thirty-one minutes, not an absolute record even in those days, because the young girl in Utah had already been reanimated after being in the arms of Death for sixty-six minutes.
All thirty-one women--thirty-two, with Naomi--were on the refund plan.
It could not rise to 1,100 feet -- which we measured as the rise from Framheim to a point about thirty-one miles to the south -- without subjacent land.
On the sixth day he had driven an unloaded sled from the synthesizer complex under Level Eighteen to the short-term storage facility on Thirty-one, using only the service tunnels and without having to request a navigational fix, in just twenty-four standard minutes without hitting anyone or anythingat least, not hard enough for a written report to be necessary.
I exhaled loudly and squeezed my eyes shut, trying not to visualize the thirty-one unreturned phone calls as thirty-one crooked tombstones in snow.
The winter following died my eldest sister Elizabeth Woolman, of the small-pox, aged thirty-one years.
Like Adams, indeed like every member of the Massachusetts delegation, Gerry was a Harvard graduate, a slight, birdlike man, age thirty-one, who spoke with a stammer and had an odd way of contorting his face, squinting and enlarging his eyes.
In all, Adams cast thirty-one deciding votes, always in support of the administration and more than by any vice president in history.
I was in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one, sashaying into the wedding-cake lobby of the Hotel Arapahoe with beautiful Sarah Wyatt, the Yankee clock heiress, on my arm.
The white men did not realize it then, but in that year, 1819, there were only thirty-one Beothuk Indians left alive in Newfoundland.
Forrest had bagged a whole band near Catahoula, Louisiana, and hanged all thirty-one men.
Thirty-one percent of all dogs arriving at the War Dog Training School were found unfit for duty, the vast majority because they were emotionally unstable.
The ship, crammed with French recruits for the African regiments, had pitched and rolled almost incessantly for thirty-one hours, and Domini and most of the recruits had been ill.
At thirty-one he won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on genetically modified excitotoxins in neural mitochondria.