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

Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..

Jacobite :: "Jacobite (n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century..

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

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

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

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

Station :: Station (n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion..

Instant :: Instant (a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3..

Hexa :: Hexa () A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic..

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

La :: La (n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.

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

Majusculae :: Majusculae (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier..

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

Degree :: Degree (n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..

Sixth :: Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..

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