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Friday :: Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

Supereminence :: Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

Section :: Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws..

Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

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

Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..

Submental :: Submediant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant..

Obolus :: Obolus (n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm..

F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Propodite :: Propodite (n.) The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint..

Sextans :: Sextans (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as..

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

Choliambic :: Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last..

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

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

Obolus :: Obolus (n.) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value..

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

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