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Anna :: Anna (n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents..

Sixteen :: Sixteen (n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Sixteen :: Sixteen (n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi..

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..

Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..

Seventeen :: Seventeen (a.) One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years..

Reformation :: Reformation (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

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

Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume..

Ounce :: Ounce (n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains..

Sixteenmos :: Sixteenmos (pl. ) of Sixteenm.

Miss :: Miss (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen..

Allecret :: Allecret (n.) A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss..

Kyriological :: Kyriological (a.) Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic..

Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Crocodile :: Crocodile (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as th

#NAME? :: -mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc..

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