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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Six  \Six\,  a.  [AS.  six  seox,  siex;  akin  to  OFries  sex,  D.  zes, 
  OS  &  OHG.  sehs,  G.  sechs,  Icel.,  Sw.,  &  Dan.  sex,  Goth. 
  sa['i]hs,  Lith.  szeszi  Russ.  sheste,  Gael.  &  Ir  se  W. 
  chwech  L.  sex,  Gr  ??,  Per.  shesh,  Skr.  shash.  [root]304. 
  Cf  {Hexagon},  {Hexameter},  {Samite},  {Senary},  {Sextant}, 
  {Sice}.] 
  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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Six  \Six\,  n. 
  1.  The  number  greater  by  a  unit  than  five  the  sum  of  three 
  and  three  six  units  or  objects. 
 
  2.  A  symbol  representing  six  units,  as  6,  vi.,  or  VI 
 
  {To  be  at  six  and  seven}  or  {at  sixes  and  sevens},  to  be  in 
  disorder.  --Bacon.  Shak.  Swift. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  six 
  adj  :  denoting  a  quantity  consisting  of  six  items  or  units  [syn:  {6}, 
  {vi},  {half  dozen},  {half  a  dozen}] 
  n  :  the  cardinal  number  that  is  the  sum  of  five  and  one  [syn:  {6}, 
  {VI},  {sixer},  {sise},  {Captain  Hicks},  {half  a  dozen}, 
  {sextet},  {sestet},  {sextuplet},  {hexad}] 




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