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Group :: Group (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes..

Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..

Discount :: Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..

Heer :: Heer (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

Platyrhini :: Platyrhini (n. pl.) A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey..

Piece :: Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings..

Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..

Kyriological :: Kyriological (a.) Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic..

Hexagynia :: Hexagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils.

Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.

Bere :: Bere (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare)..

Seventieth :: Seventieth (n.) One next in order after the sixty-ninth.

Hexapla :: Hexapla (sing.) A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century..

Hemi-demi-semiquaver :: Hemi-demi-semiquaver (n.) A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees..

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