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One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.

To simmer. [Obs.] Holland.

See Sibbens.

Same as Sewen.

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.

One who is six feet tall. [Colloq. U.S.]

A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver. [Colloq. U.S.]

Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

See Sextodecimo.

Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

In the sixth place. Bacon.

Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.