Sixth

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King Henry the Sixth was a man of a very weak and timid mind.

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  1. Being the first after the fifth: the ordinal of six
  2. Being one of six equal parts into which a whole is divided.
  3. Sixth-day Friday, as the sixth day of the week: so called among the Society of Friends.

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  • There will be a Sixth and no more (son of this Sixth, a Berlin ROUE was killed, in 1806, at the Battle of Jena, or a day or two before); but the Sixth is not yet come to hand Poor Friedrich Wilhelm; what an innocent IDYLLIUM;--which cannot be executed by a King. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Formerly known as the Sixth Street Lofts, Factory Place is the second part of a three-phase development.
  • Sixth, there's a clear market out there for fixed and mobile wireless broadband, which is why there are hundreds of wireless ISPs and billions spent on cell data. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • The Nineteenth corps and the First and Second divisions of the Sixth were all this time keeping up a show of determination to attack in front At length, just as the sun was sinking behind the mountain barrier, a wild shout was heard from the hillside where Crook's corps and our Third division were rushing down from the cover of the forest, upon the flank and rear of the astonished confederates. —  Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
  • He's in the Sixth, and has been acting as whipper-in till we got a proper chap. —  Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton
 

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  1. With term, conformed to -th; from Middle English sixt, sexte, sixte, syxte, sæxte, sistc, seste, from Anglo-Saxon sixta =Old Saxon sehsto =OFries, sexta =Middle Dutch seste, Dutch zesde s=Middle Low German seste, seste =Old High German sehsto, Middle High German sehste, German sechste =Icelandic setti =Swedish Danish sjette =Gothic (Moesogothic) saihsta =L. sextus (later It, sesto =Spanish Portuguese sexto =F. sixte); as six + -th.
 

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