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Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..

Parallelopiped :: Parallelopiped (n.) A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram..

Adar :: Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March..

Maneh :: Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver..

Taurine :: Taurine (n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3..

Sexenary :: Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

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..

Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..

Six :: Six (n.) A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI..

Six-shooter :: Six-shooter (n.) A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver..

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

Cogware :: Cogware (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century..

Sextillion :: Sextillion (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration..

Cadmean :: Cadmean (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters..

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

Hexaphyllous :: Hexaphyllous (a.) Having six leaves or leaflets.

Sixtieth :: Sixtieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

Second :: Second (a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place..

Yawl :: Yawl (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars..

Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

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