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six-sided, a. [f. six a. + side n.1] Having six sides; hexagonal.
1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 756 Some were pyramidal, constituted on a six-sided Basis. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 739/2 Prisms, terminated by six-sided pyramids. 1821Jameson Man. Min. 194 Its most frequent crystallization is the acute six-sided pyramid. 1859Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 65 Hydrophyllium six-sided. 1877― Physiogr. 58 These shapes usually look like little six-sided towers..terminated at one end..by a short six-sided spire. Hence six-sidedness.
1883Drummond Nat. Law Spir. W. 371 There is a six-sidedness, as it were, in the very nature of this substance. |