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Semiquintile :: Semiquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees..

La :: La (n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.

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 It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..

Sixtieth :: Sixtieth (n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..

Sexennial :: Sexennial (a.) Lasting six years, or happening once in six years..

Sexagesimal :: Sexagesimal (a.) Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty..

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..

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

Guitar :: Guitar (n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers..

Tetradynamous :: Tetradynamous (a.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others..

Sextic :: Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.

Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Fathom :: Fathom (n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings..

Book :: Book (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set..

Crowd :: Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow..

Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.

Loach :: Loach (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish..

Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat

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