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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.

Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided. Sixty-fourth note (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.

A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the n…

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

nsequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

ssive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.