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Sitz" bath` (?). [G. sitzbad.] A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

||Si"va (?), n. [Skr. Civa, properly, kind, gracious.] (Hindoo Myth.) ||One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and ||in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

||Si"van (?), n. [Heb. svn.] The third month of the Jewish ||ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month ||of June.

||Siv`a*the"ri*um (?), n. [NL., from E. Siva + Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; a ||beast, an animal.] (Paleon.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants ||found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in ||the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair ||being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very ||much larger than any exsisting species.

Siv"er (?), v. i. To simmer. [Obs.] Holland.

Siv"vens (&?;), n. (Med.) See Sibbens.

Si"win (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Sewen.

Six (?), a. [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. & OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. saíhs, Lith. szeszi, Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. &?;&?;, Per. shesh, Skr. shash. √304. Cf. Hexagon, Hexameter, Samite, Senary, Sextant, Sice.] One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations. -- Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.

Six, n. 1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.

2. A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.

To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. Bacon. Shak. Swift.

Six"fold` (?), a. [AS. sixfealand.] Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

Six"-foot`er (?), n. One who is six feet tall. [Colloq. U.S.]

Six"pence (?), n.; pl. Sixpences (&?;). An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

Six"pen`ny (?), a. Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

Six"score` (?), a. & n. [Six + score, n.] Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

Six"-shoot`er (?), n. A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver. [Colloq. U.S.]

Six"teen` (?), a. [AS. sixt&?;ne, sixt&?;ne. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.] Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

Six"teen`, n. 1. The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

2. A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

Six*teen"mo (?), n.; pl. Sixteenmos (&?;). See Sextodecimo.

Six"teenth` (?), a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixteó&?;a.] 1. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

2. Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixteenth note (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.

Six"teenth`, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.

2. The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

3. (Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)