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A series of six numbers.

See Hecdecane.

A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

In an hexagonal manner.

A hexagon. [Obs.] Bramhall.

equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.

A Linnæan order of plants having six pistils.

Having six pistils.

In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.

A solid body of six sides or faces. Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.

The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis.

In six parts; in sixes.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he…

Consisting of six metrical feet.

One who writes in hexameters. "The Christian hexametrists." Milman.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens.

Having six stamens.

Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.

Having six angles or corners.