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adjective

Six adj. One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations.

Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.

noun

Six n.

The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.

A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.

To be at six and seven or To be at sixes and sevens,

(a)

to be in disorder.

(b)

to be in a dispute or disagreement; often used with with.

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Etymology of 'Six'

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"Six" Quotes from Famous Books

... Gardner, my age is thirty-six, and I am what is generally known as "a self-made man." But had I really had the making of myself I should have endeavoured to produce a different being. I recollect at the grammar school in Cambridgeshire, where I received a plain ...

— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris

... dying, he decided that must be a poor religion that could not save a man his wife, and turned Mormon. According to one informant, Catholicism was the more fashionable in health, but on the approach of sickness it was judged prudent to secede. As a Mormon, there were five chances out of six you might recover; as a Catholic, your hopes were small; and this opinion is perhaps founded on ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... they had unanimously decided that in future the Common Council should be chosen from the guilds and not otherwise.(596) This reply was sent to the king by the hands of two aldermen—William Walworth and Nicholas Brembre—and six commoners, and the following day (2 August) the king sent another letter accepting the explanation that had been offered, and expressing a hope that the city would be so governed as not to require his ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... principally to recommendations of the culture of mulberry trees for the raising of silk-worms. In page 161, is a reference to Sir Thomas Lombe, "that eminent throwster, who erected the great engine in Derbyshire; a wonderful structure, consisting of twenty-nine thousand five hundred and eighty-six wheels, all set a going and continued in motion by one single water-wheel, for working silk with expedition and success." See ...

— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris

... they reached the car again six livery teams were in waiting for the men who were to go ...

— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington

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