sixadj.n.

Brit.

/sɪks/, U.S.

/sɪks/

Forms:

α. Old English seox, Old English–Middle English sex, late Old English sęx, Middle English cex, Middle English cexe, Middle English sexe, Middle English sexxe; Scottish pre-1700 sexe, pre-1700 sext, pre-1700 1700s sex.

β. Old English siex, Old English–1600s syx, Old English– six, Middle English ssyx, Middle English sux (south-western), Middle English suxe (south-western), Middle English syex, Middle English zix (south-eastern), Middle English zyx (southern), Middle English–1600s syxe, Middle English–1700s sixe; Scottish pre-1700 sixe, pre-1700 1700s– six.

γ. late Middle English sax (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 saix, pre-1700 saxe, pre-1700 saxt, pre-1700 sayx, pre-1700 1700s– sax.

Also represented by the numerical symbols 6, vi, VI.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sex (West Frisian seis, East Frisian (Wangeroog) seks, North Frisian (Sylt) soks), Middle Dutch ses, sesse, zes, zesse (Dutch zes), Old Saxon sehs (Middle Low German ses, sesse, sos, sosse), Old High German sehs (Middle High German sehs, German sechs), Old Icelandic sex, Old Swedish säx, siäx (Swedish sex), Old Danish sæx, siæx (Danish seks), Gothic saihs, Crimean Gothic seis < the same Indo-European base as (in some cases with dental suffixation) Sanskrit ṣáṣ-, ṣaṭ, Avestan xšuuaš, ancient Greek ἕξ, (Doric) ϝέξ, classical Latin sex, Gaulish suex- (attested only in suexos sixth), Early Irish sé, Welsh chwech, Armenian vec', Tocharian A ṣäk, Tocharian B ṣkas, Old Church Slavonic šestĭ, Lithuanian šeši, Albanian gjashtë.In Old English the original stem vowel e was in all dialects subject to regular breaking (to eo ) before a velar fricative; in Anglian e was subsequently restored by smoothing; compare α. forms. All such forms were further subject to palatal mutation (see β. forms) by which the stem vowel eo or e was (monophthongized and) raised to i before a palatalized fricative followed by s , although Middle English (midlands and northern) and Older Scots forms show that e was often retained. The γ. forms apparently reflect the influence of early Scandinavian (specifically East Norse; compare the by-forms Old Swedish sax, siax, Old Danish sax, siax). In Old English (in common with other numerals from 4 to 12) used either without change of form (especially when attributive) or with plural inflectional endings (originally i-stem), as nominative and accusative -e (neuter also -u, -o), genitive -a, dative -um.

The cardinal numeral next after five, represented by the symbols 6 or vi.

A. adj.

a. With modified noun expressed.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective]

six835

α.

835 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 449 An swin oððe sex weðras.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Mark ix. 2 Æfter dagum sexum.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 6 Stænene fato sexo.

a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 852 He scolde gife ilca gear..sex foður gearda.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 739 Sex ger and fiftene mo Adde abram on is elde ðo.

c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2708 Of þir sex poyntes I wil spek and rede.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7387 His suns sex þat war at hame.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cexe, sex.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 90 As þe heþun men had sex kyndis of similacris,..so han lordis now sex kyndis of prelatis.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 65 By my computation your table sheweth sexe zones.

1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 348 Sex stone of talow... Sex payre of lyne shets.

1627 Rep. Parishes Scotl. (Bannatyne Club) 3 We walow it to be worth sex bollis ane husband land off rining wictuall.

1722 in Scottish Jrnl. Topogr. (1848) II. 62/1 To sex bottles sack.

β. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. iv. 70 Siex mila from ðære byrig.c901 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 901 Her gefor Ælfred..syx nihtum ær ealra haligra mæssan.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 1 Æfter six dagum.c1124 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124 Twegen sed-læpas to six scillingas.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12966 Þa six swin he to-droh.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2788 Sixe erles weren sone yare.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 21 Þis zenne him sseaweþ..ine zix maneres.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 37 He had syx wyfes.c1500 Melusine (1895) 117 The maister had..vytaylled & laden..six galeys.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 181 Some sixe or seuen fresh men set vpon vs. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §2 The Creation of the world in the six daies work.1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 ii. 21 Henry Fielding was in stature rather rising above six feet.1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. ii. 32 She..had probably completed her six lustres.1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 152/1 Six drachmas of Barbadoes aloes, six ounces of Epsom salts.γ. 1526 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 115 That thar be propynit to the kingis grace..sax potionis of wyne.c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiii. 84 Sax mulis chargit vitht gold.c1615 Sir W. Mure (title) Sax Lynes wpon the Fall of Somersait.1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Skaith xli Wi' firm intention To drink sax nights out o' seven.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 273 Ae night, sax weeks or thereby, afore Bothwell Brigg.

b. Followed by hundred or thousand, or the ordinals of these. Also six-sevenths, six (parts, etc.) out of seven.

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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. vii. 38 Pharon hæfde syx hund wigwægna..: þæt wæs syx hund þusenda manna.

a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 657 Æfter ure Drihtnes acennednesse seox hundred wintra.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 308 In þon castle he dude hende six hundred of his cnihten.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 2002 He had sex hundret yeir and an.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cex hundryd, sexcenti.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 4 He beand bot sex thousand men.

1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Numbers) The sixe hundreth, de ses-hondertste.

1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiii, in Poems (new ed.) 59 Sax thousand years are near hand fled.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade i, in Maud & Other Poems 151 Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 13 Six-sevenths of the cases occurred between the ages of 40 and 70.

c. Coupled with a higher cardinal or ordinal numeral following, so as to form a compound (cardinal or ordinal) numeral.

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a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 26 Mar. 50 On þone syx & twentegðan dæg þæs monðes.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 20 Feortig & sex uintro getimbred uæs ðis tempel.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 233 Þre þousend & sixe & twenti þer [v.r. ȝer] was fram þe worldes biginninge.

?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 6 As þou seyst by þe comyne speche, Sex & twenty & nouȝt twenty & sex.

c1480 (a1400) Prol. 96 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 4 Til I had mad þaim redy in novmer sex & sexty.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 223 The sixe and thirtieth Chapter treateth of the next text.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 14 Some fiue or sixe and thirtie of his Knights.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 179 We sailed again the six and twentieth Day after we came in.

1779 Mirror No. 47. ⁋4 Tom is a young man of six-and-twenty.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! x Six-and-twenty years of travel.

d. Colloquial phrase six feet under and variants: dead and buried; in or into the grave.

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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]

deadOE

lifelessOE

of lifeOE

storvena1225

dead as a door-nail1362

ydead1387

stark deadc1390

colda1400

bypast1425

perishedc1440

morta1450

obita1450

unquickc1449

gone?a1475

dead and gone1482

extinct1483

departed1503

bygonea1522

amort1546

soulless1553

breathless1562

parted1562

mortified1592

low-laid1598

disanimate1601

carcasseda1603

defunct1603

no morea1616

with God1617

death-stricken1618

death-strucken1622

expired1631

past itc1635

incinerated1657

stock-dead1662

dead as a herring1664

death-struck1688

as dead as a nit1789

(as) dead as mutton1792

low1808

laid in the locker1815

strae-dead1820

disanimated1833

ghosted1834

under the daisies1842

irresuscitable1843

under the sod1847

toes up1851

dead and buried1863

devitalized1866

translated1869

dead and done (for, with)1886

daid1890

bung1893

(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904

six feet under1942

brown bread1969

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §117/19 Dead and buried..six feet under.

1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xv. 184 Bill didn't realise it, but he was as dead now as he would be when they lowered him six feet under.

1976 A. Price War Game v. 107 He never cared for nobody born... He never did, and he never will. Not till he's six foot under.

1979 J. Gerson Omega Factor 78 In Islay..we make sure the dead are stiff and cold and six feet under.

a. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from the context.

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a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 1 Aug. 134 Þa hyra syxe wæron acwealde beforan þære meder.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 220 Nule ich of alle [mihtes] segge bute sixe.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 6842 Þo was þer of .xv. þousand Yleued bot sex bihinde.

c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 6859 He sles oure men by fyue and six.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 234 Quhen thair was cum in fywe or sax, The quenis Dog begowthe to rax.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 210 Gif God was maid of bittis of breid, Eit ȝe not oulklie sax or seuin.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 276 Heere haue beene Some sixe or seuen, who did hide their faces.

1673 Humours Town 95 A Declamation against the Act for Six in the Hundred.

1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 29 Wood's Half-pence will come to be offered for Six a Penny.

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 161 Let that day be blest,..Nobly distinguish'd above all the six.

1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. II. 180 Four inches long, and six in extent.

1895 I. Zangwill Master iii. vii. 401 Broken lines of foam, which sometimes rolled in six-deep.

b. More specifically with ellipsis of pieces, years (of age), syllables or feet (in verse), points (on a stag's horn), inches, or pence (as in ‘ten and six’).

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c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 420 Ek oon yeer oolde Is good, & so til sixe on wol he holde.

c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 1028 All in sundur hit brast, In six or in seuyn.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 22 Well: wee will haue such a Prologue, and it shall be written in eight and six .

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. F/1 Let him beare six, and six, that all may blaze him.

1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 507 At Westminster, where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I l. 28 At six..he was a charming child.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 329 The average height..is five feet six to five feet eight.

c. With omission of hours, as six o'clock.

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the world > time > particular time > [adjective] > of the time of day > of specific times

tenc1386

seven?c1425

twoc1485

six1600

twelve-hour1791

undecimarian1874

undeciman1883

1482 Monk of Evesham 20 Fro mydnyght tyl sex of the belle yn the mornyng.]

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. v. 25 At sixe a clocke ith morning.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 136 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee..tooke shipping..by sixe a clocke in the morning.

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 14 At six they go all to study in a large Hall.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 142 I set sail on the twenty-fourth Day of September 1701, at six in the Morning.

1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 183 The rule in Du Guesclin's time was to rise and sup at six.

1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 127 'Tis striking six! Sure never day Was short as this is!

attributive.1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxv. 334 I shall go on the six o'clock train.1899 Daily News 7 Dec. 3/4 De Aar has been placed under martial law and a six-to-six curfew established.

d. With omission of horses.

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1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 74 Is not there a Hole in my belly, that you may turn a Coach and six in?

1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 23 You Nymphs that would to Coach and Six arrive.

a1771 T. Gray Jemmy Twitcher in Gentleman's Mag. (1782) lii. 40 Not I; for a coronet, chariot and six.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 377 A coach and six is..never seen, except as part of some pageant.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Coach and six. If a person wishes to describe any small thing as very large it is common to say that it is big enough to turn a coach-and-six in.

e. With omission of shillings; spec. in six-and-eightpence as a lawyer's fee; also transferred.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > lawyer's fee

six-and-eightpence1699

legal fee1829

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Six and eight-pence, the usual Fee given, to carry back the Body of the Executed Malefactor, to give it Christian Burial.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cxxiii. 393 Flinging down a Portugal Six-and-thirty [= a Joanese].

1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 12 Lat. The Law..is the Bulwark... Crab. Mercy, good Six and Eight-pence.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Six and eight-pence, an attorney, whose fee on several occasions is fixed at that sum.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 178 The six-and-eightpenny feeling..was too strong to be resisted.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 269 Cynics tell us, that..we shall find six-and-eightpence at the bottom of every thought and every action of mankind.

1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot x I have..the interest of a friend rather than a lawyer. You don't suppose it's for the sake of the six-and-eightpence.

f. six..and half-a-dozen.., denoting that there is little or no difference or choice between two (sets of) persons or things.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > the same [phrase] > there is no difference

six‥and half-a-dozen1836

not much, little, etc., in it1907

(there is) nothing in it1927

1836 F. Marryat Pirate iv I never knows the children. It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxxviii ‘What do they say about his chance?’.. ‘Six and half-a-dozen, sir.’

1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xii. 256 My verdict is, six of one and half a dozen of the other.

g. Nautical slang. six upon four: (on) short rations (i.e. four men's food shared between six men). ? Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] > scanty or insufficient

pittance?c1225

short commons1541

six upon four1829

1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. ii. 31 May you live a life of ban-yan days, and be put six upon four for't.

1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 78 As to food, we were kept ‘six upon four’ the whole time I was prisoner.

1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 86 Put at ‘six upon four’ again.

h. Cricket. With omission of runs.

(a) Six runs, esp. scored by striking the ball clear over the boundary. Cf. sense B. 6.

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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 392 When you or Raggles hit a ball hard away for six I am..delighted.

1951 G. Brodribb All Round Wicket vi. 39 A lusty hit for six gives many people intense pleasure... There were..many outstanding feats of six-hitting.

1979 Daily Tel. 29 May 17/3 The ball was hit for six..into the vicarage grounds.

(b) Also transferred and figurative in various colloquial phrases: to knock (someone) for six, to wrench from a state of composure; to defeat (soundly); to astonish; also in extended uses, and with inanimate object. Similarly, to go for six (see also quot. 1943); to hit for six: see hit v. 8f.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly

threshc1384

to knock the socks offa1529

thump1597

thrash1609

thwacka1616

capot1649

to beat to snuff1819

to knock into a cocked hat1830

to —— (the) hell out of1833

sledgehammer1834

rout1835

whop1836

skin1838

whip-saw1842

to knock (the) spots off1850

to make mincemeat of1853

to mop (up) the floor with1875

to beat pointless1877

to lick into fits1879

to take apart1880

to knock out1883

wax1884

contund1885

to give (a person) fits1885

to wipe the floor with1887

flatten1892

to knock (someone) for six1902

slaughter1903

slather1910

to hit for six1937

hammer1948

whomp1952

bulldozer1954

zilch1957

shred1966

tank1973

slam-dunk1975

beast1977

1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins vi. 107 ‘It knocked me for six’, is the statement we have about a bullet in the knee.

1934 A. Berkeley Panic Party iv. 69 It's a crashing bore..to think of those dim cads knocking us for six like this, but..it's no use getting strenuous about it.

1941 L. A. G. Strong John McCormack viii. 129 John..hurled his Santuzza from him with such vigour that she went for six, landing in the wings on the far side of the stage.

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 32 Gone for six, killed, missing.

1950 R. Gow Ann Veronica 1, in Plays of Year 1949 240 You're just like an angel yourself sitting there. You knock me for six, if I may borrow a sporting metaphor.

1955 Times 6 Aug. 7/4 It is a song that knocks for six the illusion..that little creatures probably know by instinct how to do their stuffs.

1973 ‘B. Graeme’ Two & Two make Five vi. 58 A glass of his home-made cider..knocks you for six.

i. Chiefly as French phrase Les Six (le sis) a Parisian group of six composers, Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983), Georges Auric (1899–1983), and Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), formed after the war of 1914–18, whose music represents a reaction against romanticism and impressionism.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > groups of composers

the three B's1909

Les Six1927

Manchester school1974

1920 H. Collet in Comœdia 16 Jan. 2/6 Les artistes conscients reconnaissent en Satie un maître. Voyons maintenant ce que valent les ‘Six’ qu'il précéda sur la voie nouvelle.]

1927 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 3) II. 662/1 Although a member of the group of French musicians known as the ‘Six’, he [sc. Honegger] is of Swiss parentage.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 194 Chabrier..may be considered..the father of the post-war movement associated with the names of Les Six.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. x. 113 The lessons the composer had learned from..the music of Ravel and les six were poorly applied.

1978 P. Griffiths Conc. Hist. Mod. Music vi. 72 Les Six did not exist as a group for more than a few years.

j. the Six, the group of countries (Belgium, France, the German Federal Republic, Holland, Italy, and Luxembourg) which were the original members of the European Economic Community from 1958 until the admission of others in 1973.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > customs union or common market > specific

zollverein1843

Benelux1947

Comecon1949

common market1950

European Economic Community1952

Europe1957

the Six1957

Brussels1968

EC1969

the Nine1972

Euroland1981

APEC1989

the Ten-

1957 Times 8 Oct. 11/1 The European Common Market now being organized by the ‘Six’—France, Germany, Italy, and Benelux.

1958 Economist 18 Oct. 207/1 The Six are the European Community, fore~runner of the continental political union..that is to be when General de Gaulle is gone.

1981 Times 30 June 7/1 In 1977 Britain..threatened to bring down the whole European edifice built up painstakingly by the original Six.

3. = sixth adj.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixth

sixthc893

sixc1385

half-dozenth1840

c1385 in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 506 Oure pope Urban þo sex.

c1430 Brut ccxliii And þe vj day come a nother Henauder.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxlvi. 547 Bartylmewe des Angles..receyued the papalyte, and was called Vrbayne the sixe.

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.i Make short either the two, foure, sixe, eight, tenne, twelue sillable, and it will..fall out very absurdly.

1603 R. Parsons in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1906) 2 218 This 6 of July.

B. n.

1. The abstract number six, or the symbol denoting this.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun]

sixa1398

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxix. 1358 Oon ydo to fyue makeþ þe nombre of sixe, þe which hatte senarius and is þe firste parfite nombre.

?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 6 Write þe digit of þe nombur in þe first place þat is sex.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Senarius, that is of the number of sixe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sixiesme,..a proportion of six.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Six, a Primitive Number, compos'd of Four and Two, or Twice Three.

1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 13 Scarcely could ye counted sax, Before [etc.].

1861 F. W. Robinson No Church ii. i Little boys who wore their hair in ‘number sixes’ at the temples, when law had left them hair sufficient for such ornamentation.

2. Chiefly plural.

a. A set of six spots or pips on a die, domino, or card; also, a card, etc., having six pips or spots. (Cf. sice n.)

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > number card > others

twoa1500

cater1519

single ten1595

ten1595

eight1598

four1599

nine1599

six1599

seven1656

deuce1674

five1674

trey1680

spot1830

four-spot1878

two-spot1885

five-spot1913

ten-spot ladybird-

1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 26 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. R. I did lift an ace.—L. I a fower.—M. I a sixe.

1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 5 'Tis a hundred to one, if a man fling two Sixes.

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 410 One more throw for the Sixes and the great game is fairly won.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native II. iii. viii. 217 Venn lifted the box, and behold a triplet of sixes was disclosed.

1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 734/2 You have thrown double-sixes.

b. A set of six persons:

(a) gen.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > six persons, things, etc.

half-dozenc1401

six1796

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six > people

sextumvirate1726

sexvirate1762

six1796

sixsome1934

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (1813) 36 The standard and its coverer each in the middle of the two center ranks of sixes.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. v. 97 On every road of Spain..may be seen gangs of fives and sixes of these people.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. ix. 124 He's been courted by sixes and sevens—all the girls..have tried him.

(b) spec. a group of six Brownie Guides or Cub Scouts.

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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > divisions of scouts or guides

patrol1908

troop1908

company1909

six1916

pack1918

1916 R. Baden-Powell Wolf Cub's Handbk. ii. 59 Each Six is called after a Wolf by its colour.

1920 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Brownies ii. 11 The Brownies are divided into parties of six; each ‘Six’ is under the leader who is called a ‘Sixer’.

1972 Trinky & Peters Cub Scout Games 26 Cubs enjoy Six relays and will compete fiercely for their Six.

3. plural. In various elliptic uses.

a. Lines of six syllables.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > six syllables

sices1586

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.iii The first [line] hauing eyght sillables, the second sixe, wherof the two sixes shall alwayes ryme.

1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 36 Sixes and four. Iambic trimeter and dimeter.

1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 36 Sevens and sixes.

†b. Sixpenny nails.

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1629 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For one hundred of fiues and one hundred of sixes xjd.

†c. ? Spirits.

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a1658 J. Cleveland Christmas Day 14 Were ere such dregs mix'd with Geneva sixes?

†d. Music. Intervals of a sixth.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixth

sixth1597

hexachord1694

sices1737

sext1876

1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xvi. 48 Observe those two Parts that proceed always by Sixes.

1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xvi. 48 Before we had a Knowledge of these small and great Sixes, it was almost impossible to add two Parts with these Sixes.

e. Gloves, shoes, etc., of the sixth size.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific size

fives16..

twelve1607

sices1796

outsize1845

skimp1862

portly1930

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 97 When..a shoemaker..came to take measure of him, he told him, ‘O..long sixes or short sevens will do’.

f. Six-pounder guns.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot

fifteen-pounder1684

four-pounder1684

hundred-pounder1684

six-pounder1684

three-pounder1684

ten-pounder1695

nine-pounder1713

seven-pounder1762

long nine1780

half-pounder1800

twelve-pounder1801

sices1804

twelve1804

one-pounder1811

eighteen1834

eighteen-pounder1866

1804 Naval Chron. 11 409 A Ship Privateer, carrying sixteen twelves and sixes.

1812 in Examiner (1813) 4 Jan. 6/2 Carronades of different calibres, with two long sixes.

g. Some form of cake.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

honey appleeOE

barley-cake1393

seed cakea1400

cake?a1425

pudding-cake?1553

manchet1562

biscuit cake1593

placent1598

poplin1600

jumbal1615

bread pudding1623

semel1643

wine-cakea1661

Shrewsbury cake1670

curd cake1675

fruitcake1687

clap-bread1691

simnel cake1699

orange-flower cake1718

banana cake1726

sweet-cake1726

torte1748

Naples cake1766

Bath cake1769

gofer1769

yeast-cake1795

nutcake1801

tipsy-cake1806

cruller1808

baba1813

lady's finger1818

coconut cake1824

mint cake1825

sices1825

cup-cake1828

batter-cake1830

buckwheat1830

Dundee seed cake1833

fat-cake1839

babka1846

wonder1848

popover1850

cream-cake1855

sly-cake1855

dripping-cake1857

lard-cake1858

puffet1860

quick cake1865

barnbrack1867

matrimony cake1871

brioche1873

Nelson cake1877

cocoa cake1883

sesame cake1883

marinade1888

mystery1889

oblietjie1890

stuffed monkey1892

Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

nusstorte1911

dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 51 The..ginger-bread bakers coaxingly interpolate them among their new made sixes.

h. Candles weighing six to the pound.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > candle(s) defined by price or weight > candle(s) weighing six to the pound

long six1754

sices1825

short-six1831

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 25 A serious injunction ‘not to take out sixes by mistake for tens’.

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 228 Man found out long sixes.—Hail candle-light!

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 8 An imaginary general illumination of very bright short-sixes.

i. Large flowerpots, six of which are formed from a cast of clay.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub > specialized types

sixteen1802

sixty1802

twelve1802

sices1824

hyacinth-glass1836

strawberry pot1946

ring1953

1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) ii. 327 The Flower Pot, is a cylindrical tapering vessel of burnt clay, with a perforated bottom, and of which there are ten sorts, distinguished by their sizes thus: the..third [size has] 6 [to the cast, and are called] sixes [, being] 9 [inches diameter] 8 [inches deep].

1851 B'ham. & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 31 I ordered..200 pots, (size full sixes).

j. Bonds bearing interest at 6 per cent.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond

government securities1707

Sword-blade bond1707

long bond1720

government paper1774

indent1788

premium bond1820

active1835

preference bond1848

investment bond1853

mortgage bond1853

revenue bond1853

municipal bond1858

treasury-bond1858

sices1867

property bond1869

government1870

priority bond1884

municipal1888

income bonds1889

yearling1889

war baby1901

Liberty Bond1917

Liberty Loan1917

victory bond1917

corporate1922

performance bond1938

convertible1957

Eurobond1966

Euroconvertible1968

managed bond1972

muni1973

granny bond1976

bulldog bond1980

Euro1981

granny1981

strip1982

zero1982

1867 Nation 10 Oct. 295 The bonds became known as the ‘Sixes of 1861’.

1893 Daily News 29 June 2/5 Mexican Sixes have dropped further 3¼ per cent.

k. U.S. slang. A prison sentence of six months.

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (month(s))

stretch1821

moon1830

sices1844

sixer1849

drag1851

carpet1917

carpet-bag1938

pontoon1948

1844 J. H. Ingraham La Bonita Cigarera vi. 27/1 I've served two sixes in her, and that's enough for me to give to the service o' my country!

1928 J. O'Connor Broadway Racketeers xvii. 182 Even if its only a sixer in the pen, too many sixes are bad for the health.

l. A six-cylinder motor car or engine.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > engine with specific number of cylinders

sices1920

V engine1924

straight eight1926

V-eight1930

single1951

vee engine1957

1920 Motor Man. (ed. 23) 19 The chief constructional difference between the six and the four is in the crankshaft.

1931 Daily Express 16 Oct. 11/1 Morris and Austin ‘sixes’ at under £200.

1932 Oxf. Times 23 Sept. 22/3 In these days of small ‘six’ efficiency and popularity.

1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xiii. 18/2 The use of fours, sixes, and small V-8's is more prevalent in 1978.

†a. Six-shilling beer. In later use plural. Also old six (see quot. 1890).

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer

spruce beerc1500

March beer1535

Lubecks beer1608

zythum1608

household beer1616

bottle1622

mumc1623

old beer1626

six1631

four1633

maize beer1663

mum beer1667

vinegar beer1677

wrest-beer1689

nog1693

October1705

October beer1707

ship-beer1707

butt beer1730

starting beer1735

butt1743

peterman1767

seamen's beer1795

chang1800

treacle beer1806

stock beer1826

Iceland beer1828

East India pale ale1835

India pale ale1837

faro1847

she-oak1848

Bass1849

bitter beer1850

bock1856

treble X1856

Burton1861

nettle beer1864

honey beer1867

pivo1873

Lambic1889

steam beer1898

barley-beer1901

gueuze1926

Kriek1936

best1938

rough1946

keg1949

IPA1953

busaa1967

mbege1972

microbrew1985

microbeer1986

yeast-beer-

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xii. 97 How this threede-bare Philosopher shruggs, shifts, and shuffles for a cuppe of six.

1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 3 Nor hath the richest Sherrie, or old Canarie any more operation with them, than a cup of six hath with me.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Six and Tips, whisky and small beer (Irish).

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Sixes, small beer, formerly sold at six shillings the barrel.

1810 in Anc. Brit. Drama II. 461 I suppose he means small beer, which, among the vulgar, still goes by the cant name of sixes.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 98 Old six (common), old ale at sixpence a quart. Spoken—Look what I've got to do tonight! There's fourteen ‘pubs’ on my beat... That means that I've got fourteen pints of old six to get down me.

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 155 Tell 'er ter send for an hexty pint of old six.

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 156 The foaming jug of ‘old six’ was placed on the table.

b. Sixpennyworth.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > amount of specific value > specific

pennyworthOE

halfpennywortha1035

shillingswortha1325

three-halfpennyworthc1440

sixpennyworthc1450

pounds worthc1460

groatsworth1562

penny1564

penny piece1601

threepennyworth1617

piceworth1832

two pennyworth1851

six1871

pounder1895

1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 107 Nothin'..but six of pale brandy neat got her round again.

5. In phrases with six and seven, sixes and sevens, etc., originally denoting the hazard of one's whole fortune, or carelessness as to the consequences of one's actions, and in later use the creation or existence of, or neglect to remove, confusion, disorder, or disagreement.The original form of the phrase, to set on six and seven, is based on the language of dicing, and is probably a fanciful alteration of to set on cinque and sice, these being the two highest numbers. Subsequent variations arise from the use of at for on, of or for and, of other verbs in place of set, and of the plurals sixes and sevens; the latter became the standard form in the 18th cent. To illustrate the development more clearly, the chief types are here grouped in separate paragraphs.

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(a)

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 622 Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 188 I shall and that in hy, Set all on sex and seuen.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 654 Quha..settis all his thrift on sax and sevin.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 267^v There is a prouerbe, omnem jacere aleam, to cast all dyce, by which is signified, to sette all on sixe & seuen.

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Biv I'm in a wood,..Yet o're my head a threatning Rocke still hingeth..; Twixt wood and rocke, I stand on six and seauen.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Desesperade Iouër à la desesperade, to set his whole rest, or set all on sixes, and seuens.

(b)1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. F.iiij^v Yet had he leuer marre and destroy al, and (as they saye) set all at six and seuen, then he wolde haue suffred the translation of this one word resurrection to haue taryed & aboden the iugement of cristis chirche.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. E Old Laertes..caring for all other things else, sets his owne estate at sixe and seauen.1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse To Rdr. I haue set all at six and seuen, and I intend by the Muses favour happilie to go on.1622 T. Jackson Judah 56 To become cold, carelesse, and negligent, set all at six and seven.(c)1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxvi. 833 Not to runne and scratch for other mens goods, as if they were left at sixe and seuen.1592 R. Greene Repentance sig. C3^v Then left I her [sc. my wife] at six or seuen, who went into Lincolneshire, and I to London.1648 T. Hill God's Preparations 19 Do not let things lie at six and sevens..any longer.1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 127 They leave things at sixes and sevens.1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 37 The Goddess..Left all below at six and seven.1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Left at sixes and sevens, in confusion, commonly said of a room where the furniture, etc. is scattered about, or of a business left unsettled.1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 12 July (1941) 94 I was sick of the labour by two o'clock and left several of my books and all my papers at sixes and sevens.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 236 He's gone away in such a hurry, he has left everything at sixes and sevens.(d)1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlvi. 459 He let the affaires of his kingdome run at sixe and at seuens.a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 151 She doth nothing with discretion, but hurleth all about at six and seven.1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 317 The worship of God lying at sixes, and sevens, the Government of the Church meer Anarchy.1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses i. 8 His Affairs went on at sixes and sevens.1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 345 It was owing to the Six-and-seven way of going on of things in the heathen world.1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. vii. 414 The affairs of the treasurer..are all at sixes and sevens.1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 228 The line of a railway..puts all precedent things at sixes-and-sevens.1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Sept. 15/3 [These] differences..have for a long time kept society in Sofia at sixes and sevens.(e)a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 126 His zeal swallowing up his Concern for his Family, things were run to sixes and sevens.1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 126 If I was to go from home..every thing would soon go to sixes and sevens.1846 Mrs. Carlyle in New Lett. (1903) I. 219 With her departure everything went to sixes and sevens.

6. Cricket. A score of six runs made by striking the ball clear over the boundary; a shot which achieves this.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke > for specific number of runs

seven1765

four1837

single1851

five1859

sevener1862

sixer1870

fourer1875

two1881

twoer1887

thirteener1893

six1920

Dorothy Dix1979

1920 D. J. Knight in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) i. 34 If accurately timed—remember that flick of the wrists at the psychological moment—there goes the easiest six in cricket to your credit!

1933 H. Larwood Body-line? 8 Mr. Wyatt again bats well... He ends a fiery rubber with a crashing six!

1949 J. Symons Bland Beginning 217 The ball sailed high into the air... The umpire signalled a six.

1957 G. Lyttelton Let. 27 June in Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Lett. (1979) II. 120 His [sc. F. Trueman's] three sixes off consecutive balls were worth seeing.

1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 16 Shortly after my six-hitting effort the school was sold and the ground used for building.

7. the deep six: used in various slang phrases to denote death or the grave (perhaps from the custom of burial at sea, at a depth of six fathoms); also figurative. Hence as v. transitive, to submerge in water; also figurative, to reject, abandon, conceal. Originally and chiefly U.S.

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1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 4/2 Deep six, grave.

1947 S. Palmer Miss Withers Regrets (1948) xii. 135 My old lady went over the hill with my bank account before I was out of boot camp. I'd have given her the deep-six if I coulda got a furlough.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 50 Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on.

1973 Times 26 July 8/3 Mr Dean has testified that Mr Ehrlichman told him to ‘deep six’ the documents... He said he threw the documents into the Potomac river.

1975 Publishers Weekly 28 July 116/1 They discovered that Americans..have been hung up on the wisdom of Franklin's ‘Poor Richard's Almanack’..: ‘work hard, be thrifty, don't borrow’... They tell their readers to ‘deep six’ Poor Richard and put his advice into reverse.

1976 Listener 28 Oct. 524/3 The more serious charge from Dean that he [sc. President Ford] tried to ‘deep six’ the Watergate investigation.

1977 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Aug. 2/3 I heard later that Bruce had taken them [sc. three guns] out into the saltchuck and deep-sixed them.

1978 Sunday Mail Color Mag. (Brisbane) 7 May 13 'Fraid the rest of the treasure and your gear have gone for the deep six!.. It's over three hundred feet to the bottom of that trench!

Compounds

C1.

(a) Combining (usually hyphenated) with a noun and forming an attributive compound. Common during the 19th cent. and subsequently.

six-ball adj. in six-ball over.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > type of over

bumpy1864

six-ball1910

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 97/2 He covered something between 250 and 300 yards in the course of each six-ball over.

1979 Times 29 Nov. 19/1 England..made 211 for eight in their 50 six-ball overs.

six-bar adj. in six-bar gate.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > other types of gate

hatchOE

leap-gate980

clicket gate?1499

court-gate1540

bar-gate1600

out-gate1648

hatch door1689

six-bar1711

heave-gate1736

farm gate1785

barrier-gate1834

Taranaki gate1937

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶3 She..makes nothing of leaping over a Six bar Gate.

1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. iv We will..take the gate yonder—the old six-bar.

six-barrel adj.

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1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 286 Two of the six barrel, and one of the ten barrel improved guns.

six-bit adj. in six-bit code, six-bit row.

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1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting i. 9 A computer using a ‘six-bit’ binary code.

1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer vi. 72 These word trains, forming blocks of data, are directed to the tape via the tape control unit, which breaks them into six-bit rows.

six-bottle adj. in six-bottle man.

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1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 102 A six-bottle-man, that is to say, one who can make such a tun of his corporation, as to carry off six bottles of wine at one sitting.

six-course adj.

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1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 303 On land that will carry beans, he thinks a six-course shift the best.

six-cylinder adj. in six-cylinder engine, six-cylinder motor vehicle; also absol.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car according to engine capacity or horse-power

six-cylinder1905

ten1931

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > of specific engine size or capacity

six-cylinder1905

litre1955

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > other specific types

six-cylinder1905

in-line1929

cold starting1930

oversquare1959

fixed-head1962

torquey1977

turbo-compounded1978

1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 116 An old crock of a 1904 six-cylinder car.

1912 Motor 17 Dec. 52/3 Lanchester, 28 h.p., six-cylinder.

1913 Motor 14 Jan. 1151/2 A six-cylinder Delage.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. § 3 I've got a good house and a six-cylinder car.

1938 New Statesman 22 Jan. 142/2 At one period the Morris interests were building a couple of dozen six-cylinders, all different.

1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load iv. 83 Under the shiny cellulose lid..lurked a six-cylinder engine.

six-day adj. (also six-days)

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1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 45 It does not agree with the scheme of the six-days creation.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 105 Five-day ague... Six-day ague.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 1/2 An eight hours day and a six days week stand in the forefront of the workman's programme.

six-ell adj.

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1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. ii. 132 A six-ell ridge about 19½ feet broad.

six-feet adj.

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1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Trimeters, ancient lyrical verses of a six-feet measure.

six horse adj.

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1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 112 The lowest size of a Wiltshire down farm, that can be managed to advantage, is a good six horse business.

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 114 Cobb & Co.'s line of six-horse coaches.

six hours adj.

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1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 283 The entire repulse of the French under Ney after a six hours' battle.

six-inch adj.

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1761 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 276 Carts to have six-inch Wheels.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 23 This six-inch gun is stopped dead in eighteen inches.

six-mile adj.

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1863 G. O. Trevelyan Lett. from Competition Wallah ii, in Macmillan's Mag. July 202/1 The sun was low enough to allow me to venture on a six-mile walk.

six-month adj. (also six-months)

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1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 145 Six Month Clocks have two extra wheels and pinions between the great and centre wheels.

1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 46 From a six-months' calf to very old cows.

six-piece adj. in six-piece band.

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1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough 39 On the dais at the end of the ballroom a six-piece band thumped and brayed.

1959 Encounter Oct. 49/1 In the dining-room a six-piece dance-band plays.

six-pot adj.

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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 580 A ground plan..of a six-pot furnace.

six-quarter adj.

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1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/3 Six-quarter-cattle, (Fife), from eighteen months to two years old.

six-season adj.

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1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxvii, in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 369 He is a six-season hunter.

six-shilling adj.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices

sixpenny1591

fourpenny1597

eight-penny1598

twelvepenny1609

six-shilling1631

ninepenny1632

seven1643

threepenny1698

sevenpenny1712

fivepenny1799

shilling gallery1801

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. i. 2 in Wks. II Gi' mee the man, can start vp a Iustice of Wit out of six-shillings beare.

1679 J. Evelyn Pomona Pref., in Sylva (ed. 3) 341 When..our Citizens..shall come to drink it [cider] moderately diluted (as now they do six-shilling Beer in London and other places).

1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/1 The length requisite for a six-shilling novel.

six spot adj.

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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 23 Six Spot Burnet.

six-thread adj.

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1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. i. 3 A six Thred-line or small Belch.

six-water adj. in six-water grog.

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1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. i. 27 May I be put on six-water grog for a lubber.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 279 You'll make a wry face upon six-water grog.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 292 Six-water Grog,..the weakest grog possible—six portions of water to one of rum.

six-wheel adj.

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1851 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. July 368 A six wheel tank engine.

six-year adj.

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1898 Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. IX. 293 I find that practical dentists are in the habit of speaking of the first permanent molar tooth as ‘the six year molar’.

(b) six-year(s)-old used attributively or absolutely.

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1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. ii. 220 The six yeare old Queene.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4342/3 A Plate..shall..be run for..by Six Years old Mares.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xx. 194 My wife..wears shoes for a six-years'-old child.

1897 Daily News 15 Feb. 2/3 This six-year-old has a very light weight to carry.

(c) In various attributive combinations.

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1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 158 Thrice in the week did the six-inside coach plough its reluctant course to town.

1889 Daily News 22 Jan. 2/5 The minister never came down out of his six-by-four pulpit to be cross-examined.

1895 Times 10 Sept. 4/2 The Football Association..[is] prohibiting all six-a-side competitions.

(a) Parasynthetic.

six-angled adj.

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1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxi. 99 With knottes sixeangled, gay and glorious, The rofe did hange.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. i. 18 Not of triangular, but six-angl'd and square pieces.

1845 J. Torrey & J. C. Frémont Descr. Plants in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 760 Stigmas coalescing into a small hemispherical 6-angled sessile head.

six-arched adj.

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1893 ‘M. Rutherford’ Catharine Furze i A six-arched stone bridge.

six-barred adj.

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1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) V. xvii. 25 They met with a six barred Gate.

six-barrelled adj.

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1881 Times 15 Jan. 5/6 The six-barrelled Gatling..fired 267.

six-cornered adj.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sixe cornered.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 239 Pointed with sixe cornered or foure cornered smooth sides.

six-foiled adj.

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1846 Ecclesiologist V. 164 The window..consists of two trefoiled lights, with a sixfoiled circle in the lead.

six-footed adj.

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1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv And art thou there six footed Mercury?

1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 231 Words of six-footed dimension.

six-gated adj.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (1623) Prol. 15 Priams six-gated City.

six-holed adj.

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1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 135 With six-holed flutes That were bamboo shoots.

six-hooped adj.

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1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 4 During the emptying of a six-hooped pot.

six-inched adj.

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1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd i. iv. 12 The Vulgar showt to see their six inch'd King.

six-jointed adj.

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1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 181 Body six-jointed, the last segment largest.

six-legged adj.

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a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 11 The Six-legg'd Nation [sc. ants] in the Fields appears.

1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 16 The larva is minute, six-legged, and very active.

six-membered adj.

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1956 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. II. viii. 252 Bicyclic monoterpenes contain a six-membered ring and a three-, four-, or five-membered ring.

1978 A. J. Birch in Further Perspectives Organic Chem. (Ciba Symposium) 6 A similar cyclization to a six-membered ring from the C₂₀-precursor geranyl-geranyl pyrophosphate would not yield this group.

six-pointed adj.

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1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Diamond These [diamonds] the jewellers call six-pointed stones.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxiv. 405 Its six-pointed mullets charged upon a field of Warrenne.

six-rayed adj.

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1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 193 A small six-rayed star has been developed.

six-oared adj.

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1685 London Gaz. No. 2023/4 A six Oared Barge never used above four or five times.

1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. xiii. 287 This is a small six-oar'd boat, made entirely for speed.

six-ribbed adj.

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1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 24 The other has its Stems six-rib'd.

six-roomed adj.

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1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 423 A neat six-roomed cottage.

six-shared adj.

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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. ix A six-shared horse-hoe.

six-stringed adj.

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1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D2 The king..saued him from the ierke of the six stringd whip.

1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. ix This obsolete six-stringed instrument.

six-threaded adj.

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1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxvii. 9) 524 These Hangings..were made of simple fine Six-threded Linen.

six-toothed adj.

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1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Sept. xxvi. 124 The Sheep..are generally six-toothed Wethers.

1812 W. Stevenson Gen. View Agric. Dorset 411 They..are called by the name of two-toothed, four-toothed, and six-toothed ewes.

1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 29 The old plan of keeping flocks until six-toothed is become quite obsolete.

six-wheeled adj.

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1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 90/2 The question of four and six-wheeled engines.

a1976 A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) viii. i. 372 It was at this time of day when the big six-wheeled cars most often went off the track.

six-winged adj.

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a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 204 Some cast on Six-wing'd Seraphs envious eye.

(b) Sometimes in specific names of animals, birds, etc.

six-banded adj.

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1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 189 Six-banded Armadillo.

1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 213 The Six-banded Armadillo..is a native of Brazil.

six-belted adj.

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1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 358 Six-belted Clearwing... The body of the male has seven yellow belts, and that of the female one less.

1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths II. 244 The Six-belted Clearwing..Dipsosphecia scopigera. The haunts of this moth are on chalk downs.

six-flowered adj.

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1800 T. Hardwicke in Asiatick Researches 6 365 Peduncles very short, solitary, six flowered.

six-gilled adj.

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1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 21 Six-Gilled Shark... Grey Shark.

six-leaved adj.

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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Convolvulus The smaller five or six-leav'd hairy bindweed of Ceylon.

six-lined adj.

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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 240 Six-lined Lizard.

six-plumed adj.

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1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 25 The Six-plumed Bird of Paradise.

six-rowed adj.

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1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 419 Both the four rowed and the six rowed barley.

1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) I. 183 The six-rowed barley is said to be hardy and prolific.

six-striped adj. (see quots.)

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1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 227 The Six-striped Rustic..is also generally distributed over our islands.

c. In combination with nouns ending in -er.ⓘ

six-bitter n. [bit n.² 10a]

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1928 Coast Guard Aug. 6/1 (caption) A fleet of ‘six-bitters’, or 75-footers, at maneuvers.

1964 M. F. Willoughby Rum War at Sea vii. 88 Many six-bitters were used offshore to picket larger rum vessels.

six-footer n.

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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiii. 263 I..inquired of a second six-footer.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxiii He has received orders to construct ‘a six-footer’ [sc. coffin].

1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra 192 Scarcely a man of the family less than a six-footer!

1897 Outing 30 144 Some of the big six-footers (commonly called ‘old sojers’ or ‘old man kangaroos’).

six-incher n.

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1868 Yale Lit. Mag. Oct. 24 We see the desire for parade and ostentation..made ridiculous by being attributed to a pigmy six-incher.

six-roomer n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style

hall-house1467

longhouse1643

bungalow1676

single housea1684

tower-house1687

villa1755

box1773

cottage orné1774

villarette1792

mews1805

cottage1808

terrace house1817

casita1822

villa dwelling1833

villa residence1833

box-house1846

six-roomer1853

terrace1854

tembe1860

moat house1871

parlour house1871

row house1871

salt-box1876

trullo1898

townhouse1900

colonial1903

semi1912

Cape Cod1916

bungaloid1927

semi-detached1928

ranchette1938

solar house1946

rambler1947

rancher1950

ranch1951

tunnel-back1957

sidesplit1958

two-up-and-two-downer1958

two-up two-down1958

semi-det1960

A-frame1963

townhouse1965

tri-level1965

link house1968

split1970

dormer bungalow1977

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lxiv. 612 ‘It's a six roomer, exclusive of kitchens,’ said Mr. Guppy, ‘and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement.’

1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 115 A remnant of land too small for another six-roomer.

six-seater n.

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1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 24 There's no motor cars No two-seaters, no six-seaters.

1977 Herald (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 2/2 A six-seater antique dining table, and two antique chairs were among the $4000 haul.

six-wheeler n.

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1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 158 The longest six-wheeler is fifty-four feet [long].

d. In adverbial sense, = ‘in six parts’, as six-cleft, six-parted, six-partite.

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1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 439 The corol is six-parted; and the stamens are usually eighteen.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 231 The Six-cleft Plume..appears early in spring.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 167/2 A very short six-cleft somewhat spreading limb.

?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. viii Perianth campanulate, six-partite.

e. Miscellaneous.

six-ale n. (see quot. 1898).

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1871 N.Y. Almanac 40/1 And a glass of ‘six ale’, punctually every morning at eleven o'clock, was absolutely necessary to his existence.

1898 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 1 132 ‘Six ale’ is a mixture of one at fourpence a pot with one at eightpence a pot in equal proportions.

six-bar n. a six-barred gate.

six-branchial adj. six-gilled.

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1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 21 Six-Branchial Shark.

six-by n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > six-wheeled truck

six by six1942

six-by1973

1973 D. Fairbairn Shoot xiv. 109 I want you to load everything onto a six-by, and I want you to have the six-by all gassed up and ready to go.

six by six n. U.S. Military slang (see quot. 1966); also written 6 × 6, 6 by 6 and elliptical as six-by n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > six-wheeled truck

six by six1942

six-by1973

1942 Infantry Jrnl. (U.S.) Sept. 41/1 A group of upturned faces stands out to an aerial observer like a 6 × 6 in a flock of jeeps.

1943 Yank 3 Sept. 7/2 I'm herding a 6 by 6.

1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/4 GI Jargon. Six by six, six wheel truck with six-wheel drive.

six chamber n. a six-chambered revolver; also in full six chamber revolver n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of

six-shooter1844

five-shooter1848

belt revolver1853

six-shooting1858

pepperbox1861

service revolver1864

navy1867

six chamber1877

forty-five1881

pepper castor1889

hip revolver1897

six-gun1912

six chamber revolver1922

police special1935

thirty-two1942

thirty-eight1953

1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly xi, in Examiner 17 Mar. 333/2 He..took out a six-chambered revolver.

1898 Tit-Bits 9 July 289/1 I slipped..a neat..six-chamber into my hip-pocket.

six chamber revolver n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of

six-shooter1844

five-shooter1848

belt revolver1853

six-shooting1858

pepperbox1861

service revolver1864

navy1867

six chamber1877

forty-five1881

pepper castor1889

hip revolver1897

six-gun1912

six chamber revolver1922

police special1935

thirty-two1942

thirty-eight1953

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 611 Sixchamber revolver anecdotes verging on the tropical.

Six Day War n. (also Six Days War) an Arab—Israeli war that lasted from 5 to 10 June 1967.

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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war

Punic War1556

Vandal war1613

American Civil War1775

Seven Years War1775

Revolutionary Wara1784

Peninsular war1811

Great War1815

Mormon war1833

opium war1841

the Thirty Years' War1841

the Thirty Years' War1842

Mexican War1846

Napoleonic War1850

Crimean War1854

Hundred Years War1874

Balkan war1881

Boer War1883

Winter War1939

Six Day War1967

Yom Kippur War1973

Gulf War1981

Falklands conflict1982

1967 Times 14 June 1/3 The purpose of this move is clearly to have the Assembly condemn Israel and demand that she withdraw her armed forces to the armistice demarcation lines as they existed before the six-day war that started on June 5.

1967 Listener 17 Aug. 196/3 In the euphoria that followed the Six Days War, the Israelis appear to be convinced that they can work miracles.

1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xviii. 241 The impetus which created the political terrorism of the 1970s was undoubtedly provided by the Arab defeat in the 1967 Six Day war.

† six-double adj. Obsolete sixfold.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixfold

sixfolda1000

six-double1552

sextuple?1563

sextupla1570

sextuplicate1657

sextuplex1668

sextupled1853

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sixe dowble, sexcuplus.

six-eight tempo n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

1873 Illustr. London News 2 Aug. 114/2 ‘Sleep, baby darling,’ a lullaby..is in the six-eight tempo conventionally associated with slumber-songs.

six-eight time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six quavers' duration divided into two equal beats; also elliptical and as ⁶⁄₈.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-eight time..with two Beats in the Bar, each represented by a dotted Crotchet—or its equivalent, three Quavers.

1936 F. G. Hawkes Stud. in Time & Tempo xii. 74 ²⁄₄, ⁶⁄₄, and ⁶⁄₈ are much alike so far as the movements of the baton are concerned.

1965 New Yorker 8 May 173/1 McFarland's rhythms are full of stop-times, double time-passages, six-eight time, and shuffle rhythms.

1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation v. 158 In essence, the ⁶⁄₈ violin part constitutes triplets in duple time.

six-figure adj. (a) evaluated to or containing six significant figures or six decimal places; (b) containing or represented by six digits; spec. worth hundreds of thousands (of pounds, dollars, etc.); also in in six figures.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > of arithmetical significance

signifying1543

six-figure1840

five-figure1842

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [adverb] > to extent of specific sum

thick1570

in six figures1873

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > grouping of figures

four-figure1842

three-figure1855

double-digit1959

six-figure1963

double-figure1966

society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values

twopenny1532

sixpenny1592

fourpenny1597

threepenny1627

ninepenny1632

ten-pound1673

two-bit1802

four-figure1842

million-dollar1854

two-cent1859

thousand-guinea1894

thruppence1895

five-figure1971

six-figure1971

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [adjective] > large sum

round1552

valuable1613

cool1721

megabuck1968

six-figure1971

mega-million1972

1840 R. Farley (title) Tables of six-figure logarithms.

1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xiii. 123 He always talked in six figures. It was as natural for the dear boy to be rich as it is for most of us to be poor.

1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 40 To illustrate, let's take a six-figure reference, the type normally employed. It may be, say 386 443.

1970 J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire I. p. xliv A four- or six-figure National Grid reference to the location of the principal hamlet.

1971 Daily Tel. 7 July 14 64 pictures in 75 minutes, three in the six-figure class, and Monet's great painting..not far behind.

1981 R. Adams Girl in Swing (rev. ed.) xxi. 291 If you were to decide to put it into auction it would be almost bound to go for a very large sum—in the six-figure range.

six-four n. (see quot. 1873).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

1873 H. C. Banister Music 70 The second inversion, consisting of a note with its 4th and 6th, is termed the Chord of the Six-four.

1936Six-four [see six-eight time n.].

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 409/1 If the fifth [is in the bass] it is a Second Inversion (also spoken of as ‘six-four’ chord).

six-four measure n.

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1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation v. 159 Combining two |¾ measures into one |⁶⁄₄ measure does not simplify the issue, nor would altering the |⁶⁄₄ meter to |⁵⁄₂.

six-four meter n.

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1968 Listener 6 June 748/3 An un~metrical vocal line in six-four against an accompaniment in four-four.

six-four time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six crotchets' duration divided into two equal beats; also elliptical and as ⁶⁄₄.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-four Time..with two Beats in the bar, each represented by a dotted Minim—or its equivalent, three Crotchets.

six-gun n. North American = six-shooter n.; cf. six chamber n. (revolver).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of

six-shooter1844

five-shooter1848

belt revolver1853

six-shooting1858

pepperbox1861

service revolver1864

navy1867

six chamber1877

forty-five1881

pepper castor1889

hip revolver1897

six-gun1912

six chamber revolver1922

police special1935

thirty-two1942

thirty-eight1953

1709 London Gaz. No. 4515/3 A six gun Privateer taken by the Crown.

1912 W. M. Raine Brand Blotters 336 My carbine was gone. It was too far for a six-gun.

1968 E. A. McCourt Saskatchewan v. 61 The Canadian cowboys rode un~armed, the Americans carried six-guns.

1979 G. Swarthout Skeletons 30 I'll..order a shot of red-eye and lay my six-gun on the bar.

six-inch n. (gun).

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1918 ‘B. Cable’ Front Lines 242 Whole batteries of 60-pounders and ‘six-inch’ tucked away in corners of woods.

six-in-hand adv.

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1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach ii. 28 He was the man in all Europe that could (if any could) have driven six-in-hand full gallop over Al Sirat.

six-oar n. a six-oared boat.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for specific number of rowers

a pair of oars1598

ten1642

four-oar1844

pair-oar1853

six-oar1856

two-oar1857

four1861

sixern1866

gig-pair1869

pair1885

eight1898

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin vii. 57 Where [were] the fellows who could tool a team or steer a six-oar?

six o'clock n. see sense A. 2c; also denoting any position resembling that of the hands of a clock at six o'clock.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day

nooneOE

undernc1122

ninec1425

one1435

three o'clockc1460

twelve?1482

twelve hours?a1513

four o'clock?1578

six o'clock1693

quarter1871

kissing time1875

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 673 The Courses [i.e. veins of ore] usually lying from East to West, or at Six a Clock as their Term is.

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand vii. 82 He..touched ‘six o' clock’ on the distant bull..and took the second pull for the last time.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 92 Expressions I learnt..when doing target-practice..viz. the six o'clock aim (from position on target focussed).

six (o'clock) hour circle n. an hour circle the plane of which is at right angles to the meridian.

six-pack n. originally and chiefly U.S. a package containing six cans or bottles of a drink.

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1949 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 10 Aug. 16/7 (advt.) Handy Six Pack Canned Beer. 6—12-oz. Pabst..98c.

1961 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Oct. 1/5 One leading brand which retailed for $2·09 a six-pack last January now is sold for $1·79.

1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha iii. 138 I took her a pound of bacon and a six-pack of diet cola.

1981 TV Picture Life Mar. 46/2 ‘I went out and borrowed a pickup truck and wore my hat out in the rain for a couple of days, got a six-pack of beer and didn't shower,’ John remembers.

six-shot n.

six-sixteen adj. Music (see quot. 1902).

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1902 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-sixteen Time, ⁶/ ₁₆, with two Beats in the Bar, each represented by a dotted Quaver—or its equivalent, three Semiquavers.

six-stroke n. a stroke in billiards counting six points.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke

hazard1674

carambole1775

carom1779

cannon1802

screw1825

sidestroke1834

following stroke1837

cannonade1844

five-stroke1847

follow1850

scratch1850

fluke1857

jenny1857

bank shot1859

angle shot1860

draw shot1860

six-stroke1861

run-through1862

spot1868

quill1869

dead-stroke1873

loser1873

push1873

push stroke1873

stab1873

stab screw1873

draw1881

force1881

plant1884

anchor cannon1893

massé1901

angle1902

cradle-cannon1907

pot1907

jump shot1909

carry-along1913

snooker1924

1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 98/2 A six-stroke is made by playing at the red, and pocketing it and your own.

six-tooth n. (cf. six-tooth n. and six-toothed adj. at Compounds 1b(a)).

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1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 [Sheep are called] six-teeths [i.e. wethers or ewes] from the shear-time after three years old.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 134/2 The difference between a four and a six tooth wether.

1878 Wilts. Arch. Mag. 17 303 We have wether hogs.., and four-tooths, and six-tooths.

six-two time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six minims' duration divided into two equal beats; also written ⁶⁄₂.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-two time, ⁶⁄₂; with two beats in each Bar; each represented by a dotted Semibreve—or its equivalent, three Minims.

1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation ii. 9 In more traditional symbology, ³⁄₁ or ³⁄₁.

C2. In special applications.

Six Acts n. see quots.

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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to public order

Riot Act1715

Six Acts1834

1834 Times 22 Apr. 5/6 Every man that dared to open his mouth against the Castlereagh and Sidmouth despotism must have set the Six Acts at defiance.

1859 J. W. Rosse Index of Dates Six Acts, severely repressive measures, passed, 1819.

1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates Six Acts,..six measures for the prevention of seditious meetings and the regulation of political publications.

Six Articles n. see quots.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun] > test of

Six Articles1655

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 231 Death being the penalty of such who were made guilty by the six Articles.

1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates Six Articles, or Bloody Statute,..an act (31 Hen. VIII, c. 14) passed June 28, 1539... The six articles enforced were transubstantiation, communion of one kind, celibacy of the clergy, vows of chastity, private masses, and auricular confession.

Six Clerks n. see Six Clerk n.

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1692 London Gaz. No. 2771/4 Lost..between St. Paul's Church-yard, and the Six Clerks-Office.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 41 S^r Julius Cæsar was then Master of the Rolls, and had..the indubitable right and disposition of the Six-Clarks places.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Six Clerks, Officers in Chancery of great Account, next in Degree below the Twelve Masters.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 70/1 The office of Six Clerks is an office of great antiquity connected with the Court of Chancery, probably as ancient as the Court itself.

Six Counties n. the Ulster counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, which have since 1920 comprised the province of Northern Ireland; (cf. Twenty-six Counties n. at twenty adj. and n. Compounds 4).

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] > Ulster

Six Counties1921

province1972

1921 Notes from Ireland 40/1 The Unionists of the ‘Six Counties’.

1922 C. J. C. Street Ireland in 1921 ix. 226 The House of Commons contained only Unionist members, who were obviously deeply concerned at the position of affairs while anxious to say nothing which might compromise the position of the Six Counties.

1935 Frontier Sentinel (Newry) 22 June 4/4 The Six-County Premier.

1949 Hansard Commons 16 May 50/2 The conditions that exist in the North of Ireland, in those Six Counties which have been cut away and ‘Englishised’.

1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb iv. 49 Suppose..she turns out to be some one-eyed horror in the Six Counties looney-bin.

1974 Irish Democrat Nov. 5/2 The significance of the six county election results has been widely debated.

Six Dynasties n. a collective term for the Chinese dynasties of Ch'en, Eastern Chin, Liang, Liu-Sung, Southern Ch'i, and Wu, belonging to the period a.d. 220–589; frequently used attributively to denote this period of history in China.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > in other cultures

Hegiran1708

hegiric1828

Saka1886

Heian1893

protodynastic1900

Vikrama1910

Gerzean1925

Semainean1925

Six Dynasties1934

Tao Kuang1960

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Chinese or Mongol members of > collectively

Six Dynasties1934

1934 K. S. Latourette Chinese I. iv. 155 The fall of the Eastern Chin..is usually said to mark the beginning of the era known to the Chinese as the..Southern and Northern Dynasties, which lasted until 589. Another classification—inclusive of a longer period—employed by Chinese historians is the Six Dynasties, by which are meant the six kingdoms and dynasties between the downfall of the Han and the reunification of China in 589.

1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China vii. 407 The most ambitious attempt of this sort occurred during the Six Dynasties Period (third to sixth century A.D.). This was a period of serious political and social breakdown.

1973 T. R. Tregear Chinese i. 26 Monks from India..so impressed the barbarians of the Six Dynasties..that they adopted Buddhism.

1980 E. Behr Getting Even v. 59 A huge ‘Six Dynasties’ celadon jar and a horseman of the Northern Wei period.

Six Nations n. see quots.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples > five or six nations

Five Nations1688

Six Nations1710

1710 in J. W. Lydekker Faithful Mohawks (1938) ii. 28 And as a sure Token of the sincerity of the six Nations, We do..present Our Great Queen with these Belts of Wampum.

1726 S. Penhallow Indian Wars (1824) 101 The delegates of the six nations of Iroquois.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Mingo or Six-nation Indians.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Mingos are a war colony from the six nations.

1789 Ann. Congr. 25 May 40 The sachems and warriors of the Six Nations.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 6/2 ‘Which..are the Six Nations?’ ‘The Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondegas, the Cayugas, the Senecas, and the Tuscaroras.’

1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 10/1 The Six Nations Indian Reserve, Ontario... The Six Nation Indians number 3,500 to 4,000 souls.

Six Preacher n. in Canterbury Cathedral.

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1879 Crockford's Clerical Direct. 469/1 Six Preacher of Cant. Cathl. 1874.

Six Preachers n. in Canterbury Cathedral.

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1841 Clergy List, Benefices (219) Six Preachers. James Reeve M.A. 1816 [etc.].

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Familiar shortening of MI6 n. at M n. Initialisms 1.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service or police > British

Special Branch1883

security service1918

MI5?1921

MI6?1921

firm1952

the Circus1963

S.B.1964

six1969

1969 W. Garner Us or Them War ii. 24 He thought he might strike a better bargain with us than with Five or Six. [Note] M.I.5 and M.I.6.

1975 J. Grady Shadow of Condor iii. 65 I think the Special Branch... No sense letting Five and Six directly involve themselves.

1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim iv. 35 When you agreed to meet comrade Blagg you didn't know anything about..the involvement of Six.

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six-pack n. colloquial a set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff.

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1992 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. c6/1 Rousseve believes his stomach muscles to be quite defined, but not quite as defined as someone with a total six-pack.

1994 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 15 Aug. Watching Tamilee flex her biceps and show off her ‘six-pack’ abs, it's hard not to feel a twinge of jealousy.

1998 Zest Sept. 122 The rectus abdominis is also the muscle that gives a stomach the ‘six-pack’ look, as it is divided up by three horizontal fibrous bands which, when body fat is very low, will show up.

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six-yard box n. Association Football = six-yard area n. at Additions.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > parts of playing area

outfield1851

goal line1862

centreline1863

goalside1865

territory1867

goalmouth1871

box1881

half1888

goal area1902

penalty area1905

orchard1913

penalty box1914

area1925

D1927

keyhole1936

penalty spot1937

six-yard box1954

1954 Illawarra (Austral.) Daily Mercury 14 June 11/3 The equaliser came when Robertson cut in to the corner of the six yard box.

1989 Sunday Express 17 Sept. 29/5 He raced into the six-yard box and scooped the ball over the crossbar.

2014 Times 10 Oct. 75/2 When Milner's corner was swung to the edge of the six-yard box, Simoncini was sent sprawling and Jagielka nodded the ball into the net.

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six-yard area n. Association Football the marked rectangular area in front of the goal, a subsection of the penalty area, from within which goal-kicks must be taken; cf. goal area n. (a) at goal n. Compounds 2.The area extends six yards either side of the goal and six yards in front.

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1916 Newcastle (Austral.) Morning Herald 11 Sept. 3/8 From a free kick Duxfield placed the ball in the six-yard area.

1954 Observer 26 Dec. 8/1 Barnes..passed it straight to Lawton at the angle of the six-yard area.

2015 Independent (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Sport section) 2 Gutierrez had to clear from inside his own six-yard area in the ninth minute.

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单词	six
释义	sixadj.n. Brit. /sɪks/, U.S. /sɪks/ Forms: α. Old English seox, Old English–Middle English sex, late Old English sęx, Middle English cex, Middle English cexe, Middle English sexe, Middle English sexxe; Scottish pre-1700 sexe, pre-1700 sext, pre-1700 1700s sex. β. Old English siex, Old English–1600s syx, Old English– six, Middle English ssyx, Middle English sux (south-western), Middle English suxe (south-western), Middle English syex, Middle English zix (south-eastern), Middle English zyx (southern), Middle English–1600s syxe, Middle English–1700s sixe; Scottish pre-1700 sixe, pre-1700 1700s– six. γ. late Middle English sax (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 saix, pre-1700 saxe, pre-1700 saxt, pre-1700 sayx, pre-1700 1700s– sax. Also represented by the numerical symbols 6, vi, VI. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sex (West Frisian seis, East Frisian (Wangeroog) seks, North Frisian (Sylt) soks), Middle Dutch ses, sesse, zes, zesse (Dutch zes), Old Saxon sehs (Middle Low German ses, sesse, sos, sosse), Old High German sehs (Middle High German sehs, German sechs), Old Icelandic sex, Old Swedish säx, siäx (Swedish sex), Old Danish sæx, siæx (Danish seks), Gothic saihs, Crimean Gothic seis < the same Indo-European base as (in some cases with dental suffixation) Sanskrit ṣáṣ-, ṣaṭ, Avestan xšuuaš, ancient Greek ἕξ, (Doric) ϝέξ, classical Latin sex, Gaulish suex- (attested only in suexos sixth), Early Irish sé, Welsh chwech, Armenian vec', Tocharian A ṣäk, Tocharian B ṣkas, Old Church Slavonic šestĭ, Lithuanian šeši, Albanian gjashtë.In Old English the original stem vowel e was in all dialects subject to regular breaking (to eo ) before a velar fricative; in Anglian e was subsequently restored by smoothing; compare α. forms. All such forms were further subject to palatal mutation (see β. forms) by which the stem vowel eo or e was (monophthongized and) raised to i before a palatalized fricative followed by s , although Middle English (midlands and northern) and Older Scots forms show that e was often retained. The γ. forms apparently reflect the influence of early Scandinavian (specifically East Norse; compare the by-forms Old Swedish sax, siax, Old Danish sax, siax). In Old English (in common with other numerals from 4 to 12) used either without change of form (especially when attributive) or with plural inflectional endings (originally i-stem), as nominative and accusative -e (neuter also -u, -o), genitive -a, dative -um. The cardinal numeral next after five, represented by the symbols 6 or vi. A. adj. 1. a. With modified noun expressed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] six835 α. 835 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 449 An swin oððe sex weðras. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Mark ix. 2 Æfter dagum sexum. c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 6 Stænene fato sexo. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 852 He scolde gife ilca gear..sex foður gearda. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 739 Sex ger and fiftene mo Adde abram on is elde ðo. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2708 Of þir sex poyntes I wil spek and rede. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7387 His suns sex þat war at hame. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cexe, sex. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 90 As þe heþun men had sex kyndis of similacris,..so han lordis now sex kyndis of prelatis. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 65 By my computation your table sheweth sexe zones. 1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 348 Sex stone of talow... Sex payre of lyne shets. 1627 Rep. Parishes Scotl. (Bannatyne Club) 3 We walow it to be worth sex bollis ane husband land off rining wictuall. 1722 in Scottish Jrnl. Topogr. (1848) II. 62/1 To sex bottles sack. β. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. iv. 70 Siex mila from ðære byrig.c901 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 901 Her gefor Ælfred..syx nihtum ær ealra haligra mæssan.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 1 Æfter six dagum.c1124 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124 Twegen sed-læpas to six scillingas.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12966 Þa six swin he to-droh.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2788 Sixe erles weren sone yare.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 21 Þis zenne him sseaweþ..ine zix maneres.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 37 He had syx wyfes.c1500 Melusine (1895) 117 The maister had..vytaylled & laden..six galeys.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 181 Some sixe or seuen fresh men set vpon vs. View more context for this quotation1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §2 The Creation of the world in the six daies work.1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 ii. 21 Henry Fielding was in stature rather rising above six feet.1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. ii. 32 She..had probably completed her six lustres.1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 152/1 Six drachmas of Barbadoes aloes, six ounces of Epsom salts.γ. 1526 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 115 That thar be propynit to the kingis grace..sax potionis of wyne.c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiii. 84 Sax mulis chargit vitht gold.c1615 Sir W. Mure (title) Sax Lynes wpon the Fall of Somersait.1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Skaith xli Wi' firm intention To drink sax nights out o' seven.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 273 Ae night, sax weeks or thereby, afore Bothwell Brigg. b. Followed by hundred or thousand, or the ordinals of these. Also six-sevenths, six (parts, etc.) out of seven. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. vii. 38 Pharon hæfde syx hund wigwægna..: þæt wæs syx hund þusenda manna. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 657 Æfter ure Drihtnes acennednesse seox hundred wintra. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 308 In þon castle he dude hende six hundred of his cnihten. a1300 Cursor Mundi 2002 He had sex hundret yeir and an. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cex hundryd, sexcenti. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 4 He beand bot sex thousand men. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Numbers) The sixe hundreth, de ses-hondertste. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiii, in Poems (new ed.) 59 Sax thousand years are near hand fled. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade i, in Maud & Other Poems 151 Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 13 Six-sevenths of the cases occurred between the ages of 40 and 70. c. Coupled with a higher cardinal or ordinal numeral following, so as to form a compound (cardinal or ordinal) numeral. ΚΠ a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 26 Mar. 50 On þone syx & twentegðan dæg þæs monðes. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 20 Feortig & sex uintro getimbred uæs ðis tempel. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 233 Þre þousend & sixe & twenti þer [v.r. ȝer] was fram þe worldes biginninge. ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 6 As þou seyst by þe comyne speche, Sex & twenty & nouȝt twenty & sex. c1480 (a1400) Prol. 96 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 4 Til I had mad þaim redy in novmer sex & sexty. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 223 The sixe and thirtieth Chapter treateth of the next text. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 14 Some fiue or sixe and thirtie of his Knights. View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 179 We sailed again the six and twentieth Day after we came in. 1779 Mirror No. 47. ⁋4 Tom is a young man of six-and-twenty. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! x Six-and-twenty years of travel. d. Colloquial phrase six feet under and variants: dead and buried; in or into the grave. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §117/19 Dead and buried..six feet under. 1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xv. 184 Bill didn't realise it, but he was as dead now as he would be when they lowered him six feet under. 1976 A. Price War Game v. 107 He never cared for nobody born... He never did, and he never will. Not till he's six foot under. 1979 J. Gerson Omega Factor 78 In Islay..we make sure the dead are stiff and cold and six feet under. 2. a. With ellipsis of the noun, which may usually be supplied from the context. ΚΠ a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 1 Aug. 134 Þa hyra syxe wæron acwealde beforan þære meder. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 220 Nule ich of alle [mihtes] segge bute sixe. c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 6842 Þo was þer of .xv. þousand Yleued bot sex bihinde. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 6859 He sles oure men by fyue and six. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 234 Quhen thair was cum in fywe or sax, The quenis Dog begowthe to rax. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 210 Gif God was maid of bittis of breid, Eit ȝe not oulklie sax or seuin. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 276 Heere haue beene Some sixe or seuen, who did hide their faces. View more context for this quotation 1673 Humours Town 95 A Declamation against the Act for Six in the Hundred. 1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 29 Wood's Half-pence will come to be offered for Six a Penny. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 161 Let that day be blest,..Nobly distinguish'd above all the six. 1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. II. 180 Four inches long, and six in extent. 1895 I. Zangwill Master iii. vii. 401 Broken lines of foam, which sometimes rolled in six-deep. b. More specifically with ellipsis of pieces, years (of age), syllables or feet (in verse), points (on a stag's horn), inches, or pence (as in ‘ten and six’). ΚΠ c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 420 Ek oon yeer oolde Is good, & so til sixe on wol he holde. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 1028 All in sundur hit brast, In six or in seuyn. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 22 Well: wee will haue such a Prologue, and it shall be written in eight and six . View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. F/1 Let him beare six, and six, that all may blaze him. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 507 At Westminster, where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I l. 28 At six..he was a charming child. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 329 The average height..is five feet six to five feet eight. c. With omission of hours, as six o'clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adjective] > of the time of day > of specific times tenc1386 seven?c1425 twoc1485 six1600 twelve-hour1791 undecimarian1874 undeciman1883 1482 Monk of Evesham 20 Fro mydnyght tyl sex of the belle yn the mornyng.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. v. 25 At sixe a clocke ith morning. View more context for this quotation a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 136 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee..tooke shipping..by sixe a clocke in the morning. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime iii. 14 At six they go all to study in a large Hall. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 142 I set sail on the twenty-fourth Day of September 1701, at six in the Morning. 1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 183 The rule in Du Guesclin's time was to rise and sup at six. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 127 'Tis striking six! Sure never day Was short as this is! attributive.1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxv. 334 I shall go on the six o'clock train.1899 Daily News 7 Dec. 3/4 De Aar has been placed under martial law and a six-to-six curfew established. d. With omission of horses. ΚΠ 1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 74 Is not there a Hole in my belly, that you may turn a Coach and six in? 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 23 You Nymphs that would to Coach and Six arrive. a1771 T. Gray Jemmy Twitcher in Gentleman's Mag. (1782) lii. 40 Not I; for a coronet, chariot and six. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 377 A coach and six is..never seen, except as part of some pageant. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Coach and six. If a person wishes to describe any small thing as very large it is common to say that it is big enough to turn a coach-and-six in. e. With omission of shillings; spec. in six-and-eightpence as a lawyer's fee; also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > lawyer's fee six-and-eightpence1699 legal fee1829 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Six and eight-pence, the usual Fee given, to carry back the Body of the Executed Malefactor, to give it Christian Burial. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cxxiii. 393 Flinging down a Portugal Six-and-thirty [= a Joanese]. 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 12 Lat. The Law..is the Bulwark... Crab. Mercy, good Six and Eight-pence. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Six and eight-pence, an attorney, whose fee on several occasions is fixed at that sum. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 178 The six-and-eightpenny feeling..was too strong to be resisted. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 269 Cynics tell us, that..we shall find six-and-eightpence at the bottom of every thought and every action of mankind. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot x I have..the interest of a friend rather than a lawyer. You don't suppose it's for the sake of the six-and-eightpence. f. six..and half-a-dozen.., denoting that there is little or no difference or choice between two (sets of) persons or things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > the same [phrase] > there is no difference six‥and half-a-dozen1836 not much, little, etc., in it1907 (there is) nothing in it1927 1836 F. Marryat Pirate iv I never knows the children. It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxxviii ‘What do they say about his chance?’.. ‘Six and half-a-dozen, sir.’ 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xii. 256 My verdict is, six of one and half a dozen of the other. g. Nautical slang. six upon four: (on) short rations (i.e. four men's food shared between six men). ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] > scanty or insufficient pittance?c1225 short commons1541 six upon four1829 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. ii. 31 May you live a life of ban-yan days, and be put six upon four for't. 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 78 As to food, we were kept ‘six upon four’ the whole time I was prisoner. 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 86 Put at ‘six upon four’ again. h. Cricket. With omission of runs. (a) Six runs, esp. scored by striking the ball clear over the boundary. Cf. sense B. 6. ΚΠ 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 392 When you or Raggles hit a ball hard away for six I am..delighted. 1951 G. Brodribb All Round Wicket vi. 39 A lusty hit for six gives many people intense pleasure... There were..many outstanding feats of six-hitting. 1979 Daily Tel. 29 May 17/3 The ball was hit for six..into the vicarage grounds. (b) Also transferred and figurative in various colloquial phrases: to knock (someone) for six, to wrench from a state of composure; to defeat (soundly); to astonish; also in extended uses, and with inanimate object. Similarly, to go for six (see also quot. 1943); to hit for six: see hit v. 8f. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins vi. 107 ‘It knocked me for six’, is the statement we have about a bullet in the knee. 1934 A. Berkeley Panic Party iv. 69 It's a crashing bore..to think of those dim cads knocking us for six like this, but..it's no use getting strenuous about it. 1941 L. A. G. Strong John McCormack viii. 129 John..hurled his Santuzza from him with such vigour that she went for six, landing in the wings on the far side of the stage. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 32 Gone for six, killed, missing. 1950 R. Gow Ann Veronica 1, in Plays of Year 1949 240 You're just like an angel yourself sitting there. You knock me for six, if I may borrow a sporting metaphor. 1955 Times 6 Aug. 7/4 It is a song that knocks for six the illusion..that little creatures probably know by instinct how to do their stuffs. 1973 ‘B. Graeme’ Two & Two make Five vi. 58 A glass of his home-made cider..knocks you for six. i. Chiefly as French phrase Les Six (le sis) a Parisian group of six composers, Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983), Georges Auric (1899–1983), and Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), formed after the war of 1914–18, whose music represents a reaction against romanticism and impressionism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > groups of composers the three B's1909 Les Six1927 Manchester school1974 1920 H. Collet in Comœdia 16 Jan. 2/6 Les artistes conscients reconnaissent en Satie un maître. Voyons maintenant ce que valent les ‘Six’ qu'il précéda sur la voie nouvelle.] 1927 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 3) II. 662/1 Although a member of the group of French musicians known as the ‘Six’, he [sc. Honegger] is of Swiss parentage. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 194 Chabrier..may be considered..the father of the post-war movement associated with the names of Les Six. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. x. 113 The lessons the composer had learned from..the music of Ravel and les six were poorly applied. 1978 P. Griffiths Conc. Hist. Mod. Music vi. 72 Les Six did not exist as a group for more than a few years. j. the Six, the group of countries (Belgium, France, the German Federal Republic, Holland, Italy, and Luxembourg) which were the original members of the European Economic Community from 1958 until the admission of others in 1973. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > customs union or common market > specific zollverein1843 Benelux1947 Comecon1949 common market1950 European Economic Community1952 Europe1957 the Six1957 Brussels1968 EC1969 the Nine1972 Euroland1981 APEC1989 the Ten- 1957 Times 8 Oct. 11/1 The European Common Market now being organized by the ‘Six’—France, Germany, Italy, and Benelux. 1958 Economist 18 Oct. 207/1 The Six are the European Community, fore~runner of the continental political union..that is to be when General de Gaulle is gone. 1981 Times 30 June 7/1 In 1977 Britain..threatened to bring down the whole European edifice built up painstakingly by the original Six. 3. = sixth adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixth sixthc893 sixc1385 half-dozenth1840 c1385 in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 506 Oure pope Urban þo sex. c1430 Brut ccxliii And þe vj day come a nother Henauder. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxlvi. 547 Bartylmewe des Angles..receyued the papalyte, and was called Vrbayne the sixe. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.i Make short either the two, foure, sixe, eight, tenne, twelue sillable, and it will..fall out very absurdly. 1603 R. Parsons in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1906) 2 218 This 6 of July. B. n. 1. The abstract number six, or the symbol denoting this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] sixa1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxix. 1358 Oon ydo to fyue makeþ þe nombre of sixe, þe which hatte senarius and is þe firste parfite nombre. ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 6 Write þe digit of þe nombur in þe first place þat is sex. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Senarius, that is of the number of sixe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sixiesme,..a proportion of six. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Six, a Primitive Number, compos'd of Four and Two, or Twice Three. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 13 Scarcely could ye counted sax, Before [etc.]. 1861 F. W. Robinson No Church ii. i Little boys who wore their hair in ‘number sixes’ at the temples, when law had left them hair sufficient for such ornamentation. 2. Chiefly plural. a. A set of six spots or pips on a die, domino, or card; also, a card, etc., having six pips or spots. (Cf. sice n.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > number card > others twoa1500 cater1519 single ten1595 ten1595 eight1598 four1599 nine1599 six1599 seven1656 deuce1674 five1674 trey1680 spot1830 four-spot1878 two-spot1885 five-spot1913 ten-spot ladybird- 1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 26 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. R. I did lift an ace.—L. I a fower.—M. I a sixe. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 5 'Tis a hundred to one, if a man fling two Sixes. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 410 One more throw for the Sixes and the great game is fairly won. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native II. iii. viii. 217 Venn lifted the box, and behold a triplet of sixes was disclosed. 1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 734/2 You have thrown double-sixes. b. A set of six persons: (a) gen. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > six persons, things, etc. half-dozenc1401 six1796 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six > people sextumvirate1726 sexvirate1762 six1796 sixsome1934 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (1813) 36 The standard and its coverer each in the middle of the two center ranks of sixes. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. v. 97 On every road of Spain..may be seen gangs of fives and sixes of these people. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. ix. 124 He's been courted by sixes and sevens—all the girls..have tried him. (b) spec. a group of six Brownie Guides or Cub Scouts. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > divisions of scouts or guides patrol1908 troop1908 company1909 six1916 pack1918 1916 R. Baden-Powell Wolf Cub's Handbk. ii. 59 Each Six is called after a Wolf by its colour. 1920 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Brownies ii. 11 The Brownies are divided into parties of six; each ‘Six’ is under the leader who is called a ‘Sixer’. 1972 Trinky & Peters Cub Scout Games 26 Cubs enjoy Six relays and will compete fiercely for their Six. 3. plural. In various elliptic uses. a. Lines of six syllables. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > six syllables sices1586 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.iii The first [line] hauing eyght sillables, the second sixe, wherof the two sixes shall alwayes ryme. 1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 36 Sixes and four. Iambic trimeter and dimeter. 1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 36 Sevens and sixes. †b. Sixpenny nails. ΚΠ 1629 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For one hundred of fiues and one hundred of sixes xjd. †c. ? Spirits. ΚΠ a1658 J. Cleveland Christmas Day 14 Were ere such dregs mix'd with Geneva sixes? †d. Music. Intervals of a sixth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixth sixth1597 hexachord1694 sices1737 sext1876 1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xvi. 48 Observe those two Parts that proceed always by Sixes. 1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xvi. 48 Before we had a Knowledge of these small and great Sixes, it was almost impossible to add two Parts with these Sixes. e. Gloves, shoes, etc., of the sixth size. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific size fives16.. twelve1607 sices1796 outsize1845 skimp1862 portly1930 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 97 When..a shoemaker..came to take measure of him, he told him, ‘O..long sixes or short sevens will do’. f. Six-pounder guns. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot fifteen-pounder1684 four-pounder1684 hundred-pounder1684 six-pounder1684 three-pounder1684 ten-pounder1695 nine-pounder1713 seven-pounder1762 long nine1780 half-pounder1800 twelve-pounder1801 sices1804 twelve1804 one-pounder1811 eighteen1834 eighteen-pounder1866 1804 Naval Chron. 11 409 A Ship Privateer, carrying sixteen twelves and sixes. 1812 in Examiner (1813) 4 Jan. 6/2 Carronades of different calibres, with two long sixes. g. Some form of cake. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 51 The..ginger-bread bakers coaxingly interpolate them among their new made sixes. h. Candles weighing six to the pound. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > candle(s) defined by price or weight > candle(s) weighing six to the pound long six1754 sices1825 short-six1831 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 25 A serious injunction ‘not to take out sixes by mistake for tens’. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 228 Man found out long sixes.—Hail candle-light! 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 8 An imaginary general illumination of very bright short-sixes. i. Large flowerpots, six of which are formed from a cast of clay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub > specialized types sixteen1802 sixty1802 twelve1802 sices1824 hyacinth-glass1836 strawberry pot1946 ring1953 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) ii. 327 The Flower Pot, is a cylindrical tapering vessel of burnt clay, with a perforated bottom, and of which there are ten sorts, distinguished by their sizes thus: the..third [size has] 6 [to the cast, and are called] sixes [, being] 9 [inches diameter] 8 [inches deep]. 1851 B'ham. & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 31 I ordered..200 pots, (size full sixes). j. Bonds bearing interest at 6 per cent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond government securities1707 Sword-blade bond1707 long bond1720 government paper1774 indent1788 premium bond1820 active1835 preference bond1848 investment bond1853 mortgage bond1853 revenue bond1853 municipal bond1858 treasury-bond1858 sices1867 property bond1869 government1870 priority bond1884 municipal1888 income bonds1889 yearling1889 war baby1901 Liberty Bond1917 Liberty Loan1917 victory bond1917 corporate1922 performance bond1938 convertible1957 Eurobond1966 Euroconvertible1968 managed bond1972 muni1973 granny bond1976 bulldog bond1980 Euro1981 granny1981 strip1982 zero1982 1867 Nation 10 Oct. 295 The bonds became known as the ‘Sixes of 1861’. 1893 Daily News 29 June 2/5 Mexican Sixes have dropped further 3¼ per cent. k. U.S. slang. A prison sentence of six months. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (month(s)) stretch1821 moon1830 sices1844 sixer1849 drag1851 carpet1917 carpet-bag1938 pontoon1948 1844 J. H. Ingraham La Bonita Cigarera vi. 27/1 I've served two sixes in her, and that's enough for me to give to the service o' my country! 1928 J. O'Connor Broadway Racketeers xvii. 182 Even if its only a sixer in the pen, too many sixes are bad for the health. l. A six-cylinder motor car or engine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > engine with specific number of cylinders sices1920 V engine1924 straight eight1926 V-eight1930 single1951 vee engine1957 1920 Motor Man. (ed. 23) 19 The chief constructional difference between the six and the four is in the crankshaft. 1931 Daily Express 16 Oct. 11/1 Morris and Austin ‘sixes’ at under £200. 1932 Oxf. Times 23 Sept. 22/3 In these days of small ‘six’ efficiency and popularity. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xiii. 18/2 The use of fours, sixes, and small V-8's is more prevalent in 1978. 4. †a. Six-shilling beer. In later use plural. Also old six (see quot. 1890). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer spruce beerc1500 March beer1535 Lubecks beer1608 zythum1608 household beer1616 bottle1622 mumc1623 old beer1626 six1631 four1633 maize beer1663 mum beer1667 vinegar beer1677 wrest-beer1689 nog1693 October1705 October beer1707 ship-beer1707 butt beer1730 starting beer1735 butt1743 peterman1767 seamen's beer1795 chang1800 treacle beer1806 stock beer1826 Iceland beer1828 East India pale ale1835 India pale ale1837 faro1847 she-oak1848 Bass1849 bitter beer1850 bock1856 treble X1856 Burton1861 nettle beer1864 honey beer1867 pivo1873 Lambic1889 steam beer1898 barley-beer1901 gueuze1926 Kriek1936 best1938 rough1946 keg1949 IPA1953 busaa1967 mbege1972 microbrew1985 microbeer1986 yeast-beer- 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xii. 97 How this threede-bare Philosopher shruggs, shifts, and shuffles for a cuppe of six. 1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 3 Nor hath the richest Sherrie, or old Canarie any more operation with them, than a cup of six hath with me. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Six and Tips, whisky and small beer (Irish). 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Sixes, small beer, formerly sold at six shillings the barrel. 1810 in Anc. Brit. Drama II. 461 I suppose he means small beer, which, among the vulgar, still goes by the cant name of sixes. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 98 Old six (common), old ale at sixpence a quart. Spoken—Look what I've got to do tonight! There's fourteen ‘pubs’ on my beat... That means that I've got fourteen pints of old six to get down me. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 155 Tell 'er ter send for an hexty pint of old six. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 156 The foaming jug of ‘old six’ was placed on the table. b. Sixpennyworth. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > amount of specific value > specific pennyworthOE halfpennywortha1035 shillingswortha1325 three-halfpennyworthc1440 sixpennyworthc1450 pounds worthc1460 groatsworth1562 penny1564 penny piece1601 threepennyworth1617 piceworth1832 two pennyworth1851 six1871 pounder1895 1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 107 Nothin'..but six of pale brandy neat got her round again. 5. In phrases with six and seven, sixes and sevens, etc., originally denoting the hazard of one's whole fortune, or carelessness as to the consequences of one's actions, and in later use the creation or existence of, or neglect to remove, confusion, disorder, or disagreement.The original form of the phrase, to set on six and seven, is based on the language of dicing, and is probably a fanciful alteration of to set on cinque and sice, these being the two highest numbers. Subsequent variations arise from the use of at for on, of or for and, of other verbs in place of set, and of the plurals sixes and sevens; the latter became the standard form in the 18th cent. To illustrate the development more clearly, the chief types are here grouped in separate paragraphs. ΚΠ (a) c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 622 Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 188 I shall and that in hy, Set all on sex and seuen. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 654 Quha..settis all his thrift on sax and sevin. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 267^v There is a prouerbe, omnem jacere aleam, to cast all dyce, by which is signified, to sette all on sixe & seuen. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Biv I'm in a wood,..Yet o're my head a threatning Rocke still hingeth..; Twixt wood and rocke, I stand on six and seauen. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Desesperade Iouër à la desesperade, to set his whole rest, or set all on sixes, and seuens. (b)1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. F.iiij^v Yet had he leuer marre and destroy al, and (as they saye) set all at six and seuen, then he wolde haue suffred the translation of this one word resurrection to haue taryed & aboden the iugement of cristis chirche.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. E Old Laertes..caring for all other things else, sets his owne estate at sixe and seauen.1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse To Rdr. I haue set all at six and seuen, and I intend by the Muses favour happilie to go on.1622 T. Jackson Judah 56 To become cold, carelesse, and negligent, set all at six and seven.(c)1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxvi. 833 Not to runne and scratch for other mens goods, as if they were left at sixe and seuen.1592 R. Greene Repentance sig. C3^v Then left I her [sc. my wife] at six or seuen, who went into Lincolneshire, and I to London.1648 T. Hill God's Preparations 19 Do not let things lie at six and sevens..any longer.1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 127 They leave things at sixes and sevens.1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 37 The Goddess..Left all below at six and seven.1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Left at sixes and sevens, in confusion, commonly said of a room where the furniture, etc. is scattered about, or of a business left unsettled.1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 12 July (1941) 94 I was sick of the labour by two o'clock and left several of my books and all my papers at sixes and sevens.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 236 He's gone away in such a hurry, he has left everything at sixes and sevens.(d)1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlvi. 459 He let the affaires of his kingdome run at sixe and at seuens.a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 151 She doth nothing with discretion, but hurleth all about at six and seven.1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 317 The worship of God lying at sixes, and sevens, the Government of the Church meer Anarchy.1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses i. 8 His Affairs went on at sixes and sevens.1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 345 It was owing to the Six-and-seven way of going on of things in the heathen world.1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. vii. 414 The affairs of the treasurer..are all at sixes and sevens.1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 228 The line of a railway..puts all precedent things at sixes-and-sevens.1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Sept. 15/3 [These] differences..have for a long time kept society in Sofia at sixes and sevens.(e)a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 126 His zeal swallowing up his Concern for his Family, things were run to sixes and sevens.1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 126 If I was to go from home..every thing would soon go to sixes and sevens.1846 Mrs. Carlyle in New Lett. (1903) I. 219 With her departure everything went to sixes and sevens. 6. Cricket. A score of six runs made by striking the ball clear over the boundary; a shot which achieves this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke > for specific number of runs seven1765 four1837 single1851 five1859 sevener1862 sixer1870 fourer1875 two1881 twoer1887 thirteener1893 six1920 Dorothy Dix1979 1920 D. J. Knight in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) i. 34 If accurately timed—remember that flick of the wrists at the psychological moment—there goes the easiest six in cricket to your credit! 1933 H. Larwood Body-line? 8 Mr. Wyatt again bats well... He ends a fiery rubber with a crashing six! 1949 J. Symons Bland Beginning 217 The ball sailed high into the air... The umpire signalled a six. 1957 G. Lyttelton Let. 27 June in Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Lett. (1979) II. 120 His [sc. F. Trueman's] three sixes off consecutive balls were worth seeing. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 16 Shortly after my six-hitting effort the school was sold and the ground used for building. 7. the deep six: used in various slang phrases to denote death or the grave (perhaps from the custom of burial at sea, at a depth of six fathoms); also figurative. Hence as v. transitive, to submerge in water; also figurative, to reject, abandon, conceal. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 4/2 Deep six, grave. 1947 S. Palmer Miss Withers Regrets (1948) xii. 135 My old lady went over the hill with my bank account before I was out of boot camp. I'd have given her the deep-six if I coulda got a furlough. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 50 Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on. 1973 Times 26 July 8/3 Mr Dean has testified that Mr Ehrlichman told him to ‘deep six’ the documents... He said he threw the documents into the Potomac river. 1975 Publishers Weekly 28 July 116/1 They discovered that Americans..have been hung up on the wisdom of Franklin's ‘Poor Richard's Almanack’..: ‘work hard, be thrifty, don't borrow’... They tell their readers to ‘deep six’ Poor Richard and put his advice into reverse. 1976 Listener 28 Oct. 524/3 The more serious charge from Dean that he [sc. President Ford] tried to ‘deep six’ the Watergate investigation. 1977 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Aug. 2/3 I heard later that Bruce had taken them [sc. three guns] out into the saltchuck and deep-sixed them. 1978 Sunday Mail Color Mag. (Brisbane) 7 May 13 'Fraid the rest of the treasure and your gear have gone for the deep six!.. It's over three hundred feet to the bottom of that trench! Compounds C1. a. (a) Combining (usually hyphenated) with a noun and forming an attributive compound. Common during the 19th cent. and subsequently. six-ball adj. in six-ball over. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > type of over bumpy1864 six-ball1910 1910 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 97/2 He covered something between 250 and 300 yards in the course of each six-ball over. 1979 Times 29 Nov. 19/1 England..made 211 for eight in their 50 six-ball overs. six-bar adj. in six-bar gate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > other types of gate hatchOE leap-gate980 clicket gate?1499 court-gate1540 bar-gate1600 out-gate1648 hatch door1689 six-bar1711 heave-gate1736 farm gate1785 barrier-gate1834 Taranaki gate1937 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶3 She..makes nothing of leaping over a Six bar Gate. 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. iv We will..take the gate yonder—the old six-bar. six-barrel adj. ΚΠ 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 286 Two of the six barrel, and one of the ten barrel improved guns. six-bit adj. in six-bit code, six-bit row. ΚΠ 1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting i. 9 A computer using a ‘six-bit’ binary code. 1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer vi. 72 These word trains, forming blocks of data, are directed to the tape via the tape control unit, which breaks them into six-bit rows. six-bottle adj. in six-bottle man. ΚΠ 1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 102 A six-bottle-man, that is to say, one who can make such a tun of his corporation, as to carry off six bottles of wine at one sitting. six-course adj. ΚΠ 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 303 On land that will carry beans, he thinks a six-course shift the best. six-cylinder adj. in six-cylinder engine, six-cylinder motor vehicle; also absol. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car according to engine capacity or horse-power six-cylinder1905 ten1931 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [adjective] > of specific engine size or capacity six-cylinder1905 litre1955 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > other specific types six-cylinder1905 in-line1929 cold starting1930 oversquare1959 fixed-head1962 torquey1977 turbo-compounded1978 1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 116 An old crock of a 1904 six-cylinder car. 1912 Motor 17 Dec. 52/3 Lanchester, 28 h.p., six-cylinder. 1913 Motor 14 Jan. 1151/2 A six-cylinder Delage. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. § 3 I've got a good house and a six-cylinder car. 1938 New Statesman 22 Jan. 142/2 At one period the Morris interests were building a couple of dozen six-cylinders, all different. 1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load iv. 83 Under the shiny cellulose lid..lurked a six-cylinder engine. six-day adj. (also six-days) ΚΠ 1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 45 It does not agree with the scheme of the six-days creation. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 105 Five-day ague... Six-day ague. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 1/2 An eight hours day and a six days week stand in the forefront of the workman's programme. six-ell adj. ΚΠ 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. ii. 132 A six-ell ridge about 19½ feet broad. six-feet adj. ΚΠ 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Trimeters, ancient lyrical verses of a six-feet measure. six horse adj. ΚΠ 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 112 The lowest size of a Wiltshire down farm, that can be managed to advantage, is a good six horse business. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 114 Cobb & Co.'s line of six-horse coaches. six hours adj. ΚΠ 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 283 The entire repulse of the French under Ney after a six hours' battle. six-inch adj. ΚΠ 1761 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 276 Carts to have six-inch Wheels. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 23 This six-inch gun is stopped dead in eighteen inches. six-mile adj. ΚΠ 1863 G. O. Trevelyan Lett. from Competition Wallah ii, in Macmillan's Mag. July 202/1 The sun was low enough to allow me to venture on a six-mile walk. six-month adj. (also six-months) ΚΠ 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 145 Six Month Clocks have two extra wheels and pinions between the great and centre wheels. 1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 46 From a six-months' calf to very old cows. six-piece adj. in six-piece band. ΚΠ 1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough 39 On the dais at the end of the ballroom a six-piece band thumped and brayed. 1959 Encounter Oct. 49/1 In the dining-room a six-piece dance-band plays. six-pot adj. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 580 A ground plan..of a six-pot furnace. six-quarter adj. ΚΠ 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/3 Six-quarter-cattle, (Fife), from eighteen months to two years old. six-season adj. ΚΠ 1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxvii, in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 369 He is a six-season hunter. six-shilling adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices sixpenny1591 fourpenny1597 eight-penny1598 twelvepenny1609 six-shilling1631 ninepenny1632 seven1643 threepenny1698 sevenpenny1712 fivepenny1799 shilling gallery1801 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. i. 2 in Wks. II Gi' mee the man, can start vp a Iustice of Wit out of six-shillings beare. 1679 J. Evelyn Pomona Pref., in Sylva (ed. 3) 341 When..our Citizens..shall come to drink it [cider] moderately diluted (as now they do six-shilling Beer in London and other places). 1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/1 The length requisite for a six-shilling novel. six spot adj. ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 23 Six Spot Burnet. six-thread adj. ΚΠ 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. i. 3 A six Thred-line or small Belch. six-water adj. in six-water grog. ΚΠ 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. i. 27 May I be put on six-water grog for a lubber. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 279 You'll make a wry face upon six-water grog. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 292 Six-water Grog,..the weakest grog possible—six portions of water to one of rum. six-wheel adj. ΚΠ 1851 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. July 368 A six wheel tank engine. six-year adj. ΚΠ 1898 Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. IX. 293 I find that practical dentists are in the habit of speaking of the first permanent molar tooth as ‘the six year molar’. (b) six-year(s)-old used attributively or absolutely. ΚΠ 1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. ii. 220 The six yeare old Queene. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4342/3 A Plate..shall..be run for..by Six Years old Mares. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xx. 194 My wife..wears shoes for a six-years'-old child. 1897 Daily News 15 Feb. 2/3 This six-year-old has a very light weight to carry. (c) In various attributive combinations. ΚΠ 1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 158 Thrice in the week did the six-inside coach plough its reluctant course to town. 1889 Daily News 22 Jan. 2/5 The minister never came down out of his six-by-four pulpit to be cross-examined. 1895 Times 10 Sept. 4/2 The Football Association..[is] prohibiting all six-a-side competitions. b. (a) Parasynthetic. six-angled adj. ΚΠ 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxi. 99 With knottes sixeangled, gay and glorious, The rofe did hange. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. i. 18 Not of triangular, but six-angl'd and square pieces. 1845 J. Torrey & J. C. Frémont Descr. Plants in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 760 Stigmas coalescing into a small hemispherical 6-angled sessile head. six-arched adj. ΚΠ 1893 ‘M. Rutherford’ Catharine Furze i A six-arched stone bridge. six-barred adj. ΚΠ 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) V. xvii. 25 They met with a six barred Gate. six-barrelled adj. ΚΠ 1881 Times 15 Jan. 5/6 The six-barrelled Gatling..fired 267. six-cornered adj. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sixe cornered. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 239 Pointed with sixe cornered or foure cornered smooth sides. six-foiled adj. ΚΠ 1846 Ecclesiologist V. 164 The window..consists of two trefoiled lights, with a sixfoiled circle in the lead. six-footed adj. ΚΠ 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv And art thou there six footed Mercury? 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 231 Words of six-footed dimension. six-gated adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (1623) Prol. 15 Priams six-gated City. six-holed adj. ΚΠ 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 135 With six-holed flutes That were bamboo shoots. six-hooped adj. ΚΠ 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 4 During the emptying of a six-hooped pot. six-inched adj. ΚΠ 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd i. iv. 12 The Vulgar showt to see their six inch'd King. six-jointed adj. ΚΠ 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 181 Body six-jointed, the last segment largest. six-legged adj. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 11 The Six-legg'd Nation [sc. ants] in the Fields appears. 1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 16 The larva is minute, six-legged, and very active. six-membered adj. ΚΠ 1956 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. II. viii. 252 Bicyclic monoterpenes contain a six-membered ring and a three-, four-, or five-membered ring. 1978 A. J. Birch in Further Perspectives Organic Chem. (Ciba Symposium) 6 A similar cyclization to a six-membered ring from the C₂₀-precursor geranyl-geranyl pyrophosphate would not yield this group. six-pointed adj. ΚΠ 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Diamond These [diamonds] the jewellers call six-pointed stones. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxiv. 405 Its six-pointed mullets charged upon a field of Warrenne. six-rayed adj. ΚΠ 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 193 A small six-rayed star has been developed. six-oared adj. ΚΠ 1685 London Gaz. No. 2023/4 A six Oared Barge never used above four or five times. 1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. xiii. 287 This is a small six-oar'd boat, made entirely for speed. six-ribbed adj. ΚΠ 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 24 The other has its Stems six-rib'd. six-roomed adj. ΚΠ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 423 A neat six-roomed cottage. six-shared adj. ΚΠ 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. ix A six-shared horse-hoe. six-stringed adj. ΚΠ 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D2 The king..saued him from the ierke of the six stringd whip. 1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. ix This obsolete six-stringed instrument. six-threaded adj. ΚΠ 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxvii. 9) 524 These Hangings..were made of simple fine Six-threded Linen. six-toothed adj. ΚΠ 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Sept. xxvi. 124 The Sheep..are generally six-toothed Wethers. 1812 W. Stevenson Gen. View Agric. Dorset 411 They..are called by the name of two-toothed, four-toothed, and six-toothed ewes. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 29 The old plan of keeping flocks until six-toothed is become quite obsolete. six-wheeled adj. ΚΠ 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 90/2 The question of four and six-wheeled engines. a1976 A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) viii. i. 372 It was at this time of day when the big six-wheeled cars most often went off the track. six-winged adj. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 204 Some cast on Six-wing'd Seraphs envious eye. (b) Sometimes in specific names of animals, birds, etc. six-banded adj. ΚΠ 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 189 Six-banded Armadillo. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 213 The Six-banded Armadillo..is a native of Brazil. six-belted adj. ΚΠ 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 358 Six-belted Clearwing... The body of the male has seven yellow belts, and that of the female one less. 1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths II. 244 The Six-belted Clearwing..Dipsosphecia scopigera. The haunts of this moth are on chalk downs. six-flowered adj. ΚΠ 1800 T. Hardwicke in Asiatick Researches 6 365 Peduncles very short, solitary, six flowered. six-gilled adj. ΚΠ 1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 21 Six-Gilled Shark... Grey Shark. six-leaved adj. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Convolvulus The smaller five or six-leav'd hairy bindweed of Ceylon. six-lined adj. ΚΠ 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 240 Six-lined Lizard. six-plumed adj. ΚΠ 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 25 The Six-plumed Bird of Paradise. six-rowed adj. ΚΠ 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 419 Both the four rowed and the six rowed barley. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) I. 183 The six-rowed barley is said to be hardy and prolific. six-striped adj. (see quots.) ΚΠ 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 227 The Six-striped Rustic..is also generally distributed over our islands. c. In combination with nouns ending in -er.ⓘ six-bitter n. [bit n.² 10a] ΚΠ 1928 Coast Guard Aug. 6/1 (caption) A fleet of ‘six-bitters’, or 75-footers, at maneuvers. 1964 M. F. Willoughby Rum War at Sea vii. 88 Many six-bitters were used offshore to picket larger rum vessels. six-footer n. ΚΠ 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiii. 263 I..inquired of a second six-footer. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxiii He has received orders to construct ‘a six-footer’ [sc. coffin]. 1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra 192 Scarcely a man of the family less than a six-footer! 1897 Outing 30 144 Some of the big six-footers (commonly called ‘old sojers’ or ‘old man kangaroos’). six-incher n. ΚΠ 1868 Yale Lit. Mag. Oct. 24 We see the desire for parade and ostentation..made ridiculous by being attributed to a pigmy six-incher. six-roomer n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lxiv. 612 ‘It's a six roomer, exclusive of kitchens,’ said Mr. Guppy, ‘and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement.’ 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 115 A remnant of land too small for another six-roomer. six-seater n. ΚΠ 1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 24 There's no motor cars No two-seaters, no six-seaters. 1977 Herald (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 2/2 A six-seater antique dining table, and two antique chairs were among the $4000 haul. six-wheeler n. ΚΠ 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 158 The longest six-wheeler is fifty-four feet [long]. d. In adverbial sense, = ‘in six parts’, as six-cleft, six-parted, six-partite. ΚΠ 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 439 The corol is six-parted; and the stamens are usually eighteen. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 231 The Six-cleft Plume..appears early in spring. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 167/2 A very short six-cleft somewhat spreading limb. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. viii Perianth campanulate, six-partite. e. Miscellaneous. six-ale n. (see quot. 1898). ΚΠ 1871 N.Y. Almanac 40/1 And a glass of ‘six ale’, punctually every morning at eleven o'clock, was absolutely necessary to his existence. 1898 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 1 132 ‘Six ale’ is a mixture of one at fourpence a pot with one at eightpence a pot in equal proportions. six-bar n. a six-barred gate. six-branchial adj. six-gilled. ΚΠ 1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 21 Six-Branchial Shark. six-by n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > six-wheeled truck six by six1942 six-by1973 1973 D. Fairbairn Shoot xiv. 109 I want you to load everything onto a six-by, and I want you to have the six-by all gassed up and ready to go. six by six n. U.S. Military slang (see quot. 1966); also written 6 × 6, 6 by 6 and elliptical as six-by n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > six-wheeled truck six by six1942 six-by1973 1942 Infantry Jrnl. (U.S.) Sept. 41/1 A group of upturned faces stands out to an aerial observer like a 6 × 6 in a flock of jeeps. 1943 Yank 3 Sept. 7/2 I'm herding a 6 by 6. 1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/4 GI Jargon. Six by six, six wheel truck with six-wheel drive. six chamber n. a six-chambered revolver; also in full six chamber revolver n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of six-shooter1844 five-shooter1848 belt revolver1853 six-shooting1858 pepperbox1861 service revolver1864 navy1867 six chamber1877 forty-five1881 pepper castor1889 hip revolver1897 six-gun1912 six chamber revolver1922 police special1935 thirty-two1942 thirty-eight1953 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly xi, in Examiner 17 Mar. 333/2 He..took out a six-chambered revolver. 1898 Tit-Bits 9 July 289/1 I slipped..a neat..six-chamber into my hip-pocket. six chamber revolver n. ΘΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of six-shooter1844 five-shooter1848 belt revolver1853 six-shooting1858 pepperbox1861 service revolver1864 navy1867 six chamber1877 forty-five1881 pepper castor1889 hip revolver1897 six-gun1912 six chamber revolver1922 police special1935 thirty-two1942 thirty-eight1953 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 611 Sixchamber revolver anecdotes verging on the tropical. Six Day War n. (also Six Days War) an Arab—Israeli war that lasted from 5 to 10 June 1967. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1967 Times 14 June 1/3 The purpose of this move is clearly to have the Assembly condemn Israel and demand that she withdraw her armed forces to the armistice demarcation lines as they existed before the six-day war that started on June 5. 1967 Listener 17 Aug. 196/3 In the euphoria that followed the Six Days War, the Israelis appear to be convinced that they can work miracles. 1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xviii. 241 The impetus which created the political terrorism of the 1970s was undoubtedly provided by the Arab defeat in the 1967 Six Day war. † six-double adj. Obsolete sixfold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixfold sixfolda1000 six-double1552 sextuple?1563 sextupla1570 sextuplicate1657 sextuplex1668 sextupled1853 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sixe dowble, sexcuplus. six-eight tempo n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1873 Illustr. London News 2 Aug. 114/2 ‘Sleep, baby darling,’ a lullaby..is in the six-eight tempo conventionally associated with slumber-songs. six-eight time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six quavers' duration divided into two equal beats; also elliptical and as ⁶⁄₈. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-eight time..with two Beats in the Bar, each represented by a dotted Crotchet—or its equivalent, three Quavers. 1936 F. G. Hawkes Stud. in Time & Tempo xii. 74 ²⁄₄, ⁶⁄₄, and ⁶⁄₈ are much alike so far as the movements of the baton are concerned. 1965 New Yorker 8 May 173/1 McFarland's rhythms are full of stop-times, double time-passages, six-eight time, and shuffle rhythms. 1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation v. 158 In essence, the ⁶⁄₈ violin part constitutes triplets in duple time. six-figure adj. (a) evaluated to or containing six significant figures or six decimal places; (b) containing or represented by six digits; spec. worth hundreds of thousands (of pounds, dollars, etc.); also in in six figures. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > of arithmetical significance signifying1543 six-figure1840 five-figure1842 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [adverb] > to extent of specific sum thick1570 in six figures1873 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > grouping of figures four-figure1842 three-figure1855 double-digit1959 six-figure1963 double-figure1966 society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values twopenny1532 sixpenny1592 fourpenny1597 threepenny1627 ninepenny1632 ten-pound1673 two-bit1802 four-figure1842 million-dollar1854 two-cent1859 thousand-guinea1894 thruppence1895 five-figure1971 six-figure1971 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [adjective] > large sum round1552 valuable1613 cool1721 megabuck1968 six-figure1971 mega-million1972 1840 R. Farley (title) Tables of six-figure logarithms. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xiii. 123 He always talked in six figures. It was as natural for the dear boy to be rich as it is for most of us to be poor. 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 40 To illustrate, let's take a six-figure reference, the type normally employed. It may be, say 386 443. 1970 J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire I. p. xliv A four- or six-figure National Grid reference to the location of the principal hamlet. 1971 Daily Tel. 7 July 14 64 pictures in 75 minutes, three in the six-figure class, and Monet's great painting..not far behind. 1981 R. Adams Girl in Swing (rev. ed.) xxi. 291 If you were to decide to put it into auction it would be almost bound to go for a very large sum—in the six-figure range. six-four n. (see quot. 1873). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 1873 H. C. Banister Music 70 The second inversion, consisting of a note with its 4th and 6th, is termed the Chord of the Six-four. 1936Six-four [see six-eight time n.]. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 409/1 If the fifth [is in the bass] it is a Second Inversion (also spoken of as ‘six-four’ chord). six-four measure n. ΚΠ 1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation v. 159 Combining two \|¾ measures into one \|⁶⁄₄ measure does not simplify the issue, nor would altering the \|⁶⁄₄ meter to \|⁵⁄₂. six-four meter n. ΚΠ 1968 Listener 6 June 748/3 An un~metrical vocal line in six-four against an accompaniment in four-four. six-four time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six crotchets' duration divided into two equal beats; also elliptical and as ⁶⁄₄. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-four Time..with two Beats in the bar, each represented by a dotted Minim—or its equivalent, three Crotchets. six-gun n. North American = six-shooter n.; cf. six chamber n. (revolver). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of six-shooter1844 five-shooter1848 belt revolver1853 six-shooting1858 pepperbox1861 service revolver1864 navy1867 six chamber1877 forty-five1881 pepper castor1889 hip revolver1897 six-gun1912 six chamber revolver1922 police special1935 thirty-two1942 thirty-eight1953 1709 London Gaz. No. 4515/3 A six gun Privateer taken by the Crown. 1912 W. M. Raine Brand Blotters 336 My carbine was gone. It was too far for a six-gun. 1968 E. A. McCourt Saskatchewan v. 61 The Canadian cowboys rode un~armed, the Americans carried six-guns. 1979 G. Swarthout Skeletons 30 I'll..order a shot of red-eye and lay my six-gun on the bar. six-inch n. (gun). ΚΠ 1918 ‘B. Cable’ Front Lines 242 Whole batteries of 60-pounders and ‘six-inch’ tucked away in corners of woods. six-in-hand adv. ΚΠ 1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach ii. 28 He was the man in all Europe that could (if any could) have driven six-in-hand full gallop over Al Sirat. six-oar n. a six-oared boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for specific number of rowers a pair of oars1598 ten1642 four-oar1844 pair-oar1853 six-oar1856 two-oar1857 four1861 sixern1866 gig-pair1869 pair1885 eight1898 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin vii. 57 Where [were] the fellows who could tool a team or steer a six-oar? six o'clock n. see sense A. 2c; also denoting any position resembling that of the hands of a clock at six o'clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day nooneOE undernc1122 ninec1425 one1435 three o'clockc1460 twelve?1482 twelve hours?a1513 four o'clock?1578 six o'clock1693 quarter1871 kissing time1875 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 673 The Courses [i.e. veins of ore] usually lying from East to West, or at Six a Clock as their Term is. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand vii. 82 He..touched ‘six o' clock’ on the distant bull..and took the second pull for the last time. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 92 Expressions I learnt..when doing target-practice..viz. the six o'clock aim (from position on target focussed). six (o'clock) hour circle n. an hour circle the plane of which is at right angles to the meridian. six-pack n. originally and chiefly U.S. a package containing six cans or bottles of a drink. ΚΠ 1949 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 10 Aug. 16/7 (advt.) Handy Six Pack Canned Beer. 6—12-oz. Pabst..98c. 1961 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Oct. 1/5 One leading brand which retailed for $2·09 a six-pack last January now is sold for $1·79. 1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha iii. 138 I took her a pound of bacon and a six-pack of diet cola. 1981 TV Picture Life Mar. 46/2 ‘I went out and borrowed a pickup truck and wore my hat out in the rain for a couple of days, got a six-pack of beer and didn't shower,’ John remembers. six-shot n. six-sixteen adj. Music (see quot. 1902). ΚΠ 1902 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-sixteen Time, ⁶/ ₁₆, with two Beats in the Bar, each represented by a dotted Quaver—or its equivalent, three Semiquavers. six-stroke n. a stroke in billiards counting six points. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke hazard1674 carambole1775 carom1779 cannon1802 screw1825 sidestroke1834 following stroke1837 cannonade1844 five-stroke1847 follow1850 scratch1850 fluke1857 jenny1857 bank shot1859 angle shot1860 draw shot1860 six-stroke1861 run-through1862 spot1868 quill1869 dead-stroke1873 loser1873 push1873 push stroke1873 stab1873 stab screw1873 draw1881 force1881 plant1884 anchor cannon1893 massé1901 angle1902 cradle-cannon1907 pot1907 jump shot1909 carry-along1913 snooker1924 1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 98/2 A six-stroke is made by playing at the red, and pocketing it and your own. six-tooth n. (cf. six-tooth n. and six-toothed adj. at Compounds 1b(a)). ΚΠ 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 [Sheep are called] six-teeths [i.e. wethers or ewes] from the shear-time after three years old. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 134/2 The difference between a four and a six tooth wether. 1878 Wilts. Arch. Mag. 17 303 We have wether hogs.., and four-tooths, and six-tooths. six-two time n. Music time or rhythm having a bar length of six minims' duration divided into two equal beats; also written ⁶⁄₂. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1884 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 119/1 Six-two time, ⁶⁄₂; with two beats in each Bar; each represented by a dotted Semibreve—or its equivalent, three Minims. 1978 G. Read Mod. Rhythmic Notation ii. 9 In more traditional symbology, ³⁄₁ or ³⁄₁. C2. In special applications. Six Acts n. see quots. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to public order Riot Act1715 Six Acts1834 1834 Times 22 Apr. 5/6 Every man that dared to open his mouth against the Castlereagh and Sidmouth despotism must have set the Six Acts at defiance. 1859 J. W. Rosse Index of Dates Six Acts, severely repressive measures, passed, 1819. 1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates Six Acts,..six measures for the prevention of seditious meetings and the regulation of political publications. Six Articles n. see quots. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun] > test of Six Articles1655 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 231 Death being the penalty of such who were made guilty by the six Articles. 1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates Six Articles, or Bloody Statute,..an act (31 Hen. VIII, c. 14) passed June 28, 1539... The six articles enforced were transubstantiation, communion of one kind, celibacy of the clergy, vows of chastity, private masses, and auricular confession. Six Clerks n. see Six Clerk n. ΚΠ 1692 London Gaz. No. 2771/4 Lost..between St. Paul's Church-yard, and the Six Clerks-Office. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 41 S^r Julius Cæsar was then Master of the Rolls, and had..the indubitable right and disposition of the Six-Clarks places. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Six Clerks, Officers in Chancery of great Account, next in Degree below the Twelve Masters. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 70/1 The office of Six Clerks is an office of great antiquity connected with the Court of Chancery, probably as ancient as the Court itself. Six Counties n. the Ulster counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, which have since 1920 comprised the province of Northern Ireland; (cf. Twenty-six Counties n. at twenty adj. and n. Compounds 4). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] > Ulster Six Counties1921 province1972 1921 Notes from Ireland 40/1 The Unionists of the ‘Six Counties’. 1922 C. J. C. Street Ireland in 1921 ix. 226 The House of Commons contained only Unionist members, who were obviously deeply concerned at the position of affairs while anxious to say nothing which might compromise the position of the Six Counties. 1935 Frontier Sentinel (Newry) 22 June 4/4 The Six-County Premier. 1949 Hansard Commons 16 May 50/2 The conditions that exist in the North of Ireland, in those Six Counties which have been cut away and ‘Englishised’. 1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb iv. 49 Suppose..she turns out to be some one-eyed horror in the Six Counties looney-bin. 1974 Irish Democrat Nov. 5/2 The significance of the six county election results has been widely debated. Six Dynasties n. a collective term for the Chinese dynasties of Ch'en, Eastern Chin, Liang, Liu-Sung, Southern Ch'i, and Wu, belonging to the period a.d. 220–589; frequently used attributively to denote this period of history in China. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > in other cultures Hegiran1708 hegiric1828 Saka1886 Heian1893 protodynastic1900 Vikrama1910 Gerzean1925 Semainean1925 Six Dynasties1934 Tao Kuang1960 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Chinese or Mongol members of > collectively Six Dynasties1934 1934 K. S. Latourette Chinese I. iv. 155 The fall of the Eastern Chin..is usually said to mark the beginning of the era known to the Chinese as the..Southern and Northern Dynasties, which lasted until 589. Another classification—inclusive of a longer period—employed by Chinese historians is the Six Dynasties, by which are meant the six kingdoms and dynasties between the downfall of the Han and the reunification of China in 589. 1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China vii. 407 The most ambitious attempt of this sort occurred during the Six Dynasties Period (third to sixth century A.D.). This was a period of serious political and social breakdown. 1973 T. R. Tregear Chinese i. 26 Monks from India..so impressed the barbarians of the Six Dynasties..that they adopted Buddhism. 1980 E. Behr Getting Even v. 59 A huge ‘Six Dynasties’ celadon jar and a horseman of the Northern Wei period. Six Nations n. see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples > five or six nations Five Nations1688 Six Nations1710 1710 in J. W. Lydekker Faithful Mohawks (1938) ii. 28 And as a sure Token of the sincerity of the six Nations, We do..present Our Great Queen with these Belts of Wampum. 1726 S. Penhallow Indian Wars (1824) 101 The delegates of the six nations of Iroquois. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Mingo or Six-nation Indians. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 390 The Mingos are a war colony from the six nations. 1789 Ann. Congr. 25 May 40 The sachems and warriors of the Six Nations. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 6/2 ‘Which..are the Six Nations?’ ‘The Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondegas, the Cayugas, the Senecas, and the Tuscaroras.’ 1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 10/1 The Six Nations Indian Reserve, Ontario... The Six Nation Indians number 3,500 to 4,000 souls. Six Preacher n. in Canterbury Cathedral. ΚΠ 1879 Crockford's Clerical Direct. 469/1 Six Preacher of Cant. Cathl. 1874. Six Preachers n. in Canterbury Cathedral. ΚΠ 1841 Clergy List, Benefices (219) Six Preachers. James Reeve M.A. 1816 [etc.]. Draft additions 1993 Familiar shortening of MI6 n. at M n. Initialisms 1. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service or police > British Special Branch1883 security service1918 MI5?1921 MI6?1921 firm1952 the Circus1963 S.B.1964 six1969 1969 W. Garner Us or Them War ii. 24 He thought he might strike a better bargain with us than with Five or Six. [Note] M.I.5 and M.I.6. 1975 J. Grady Shadow of Condor iii. 65 I think the Special Branch... No sense letting Five and Six directly involve themselves. 1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim iv. 35 When you agreed to meet comrade Blagg you didn't know anything about..the involvement of Six. Draft additions June 2001 six-pack n. colloquial a set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff. ΚΠ 1992 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. c6/1 Rousseve believes his stomach muscles to be quite defined, but not quite as defined as someone with a total six-pack. 1994 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 15 Aug. Watching Tamilee flex her biceps and show off her ‘six-pack’ abs, it's hard not to feel a twinge of jealousy. 1998 Zest Sept. 122 The rectus abdominis is also the muscle that gives a stomach the ‘six-pack’ look, as it is divided up by three horizontal fibrous bands which, when body fat is very low, will show up. Draft additions December 2016 six-yard box n. Association Football = six-yard area n. at Additions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > parts of playing area outfield1851 goal line1862 centreline1863 goalside1865 territory1867 goalmouth1871 box1881 half1888 goal area1902 penalty area1905 orchard1913 penalty box1914 area1925 D1927 keyhole1936 penalty spot1937 six-yard box1954 1954 Illawarra (Austral.) Daily Mercury 14 June 11/3 The equaliser came when Robertson cut in to the corner of the six yard box. 1989 Sunday Express 17 Sept. 29/5 He raced into the six-yard box and scooped the ball over the crossbar. 2014 Times 10 Oct. 75/2 When Milner's corner was swung to the edge of the six-yard box, Simoncini was sent sprawling and Jagielka nodded the ball into the net. Draft additions December 2016 six-yard area n. Association Football the marked rectangular area in front of the goal, a subsection of the penalty area, from within which goal-kicks must be taken; cf. goal area n. (a) at goal n. Compounds 2.The area extends six yards either side of the goal and six yards in front. ΚΠ 1916 Newcastle (Austral.) Morning Herald 11 Sept. 3/8 From a free kick Duxfield placed the ball in the six-yard area. 1954 Observer 26 Dec. 8/1 Barnes..passed it straight to Lawton at the angle of the six-yard area. 2015 Independent (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Sport section) 2 Gutierrez had to clear from inside his own six-yard area in the ninth minute. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.835
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