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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following sixty-two and preceding sixty-four.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective being three more than sixty

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Examples

  • While participating in a militia muster, he supplied an entire hogshead—sixty-three gallons—of rum punch, which “entertained all the people and made them drunk and fighting all the evening, but without mischief.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • In 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rendered a decision on an “issue of first impression” interpreting a one hundred and sixty-three year old provision of the United States Code - the “false marking” statute embodied in 35 U.S.C. § 292.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.

    I Have A Dream Speech (TEXT) Craig Kanalley 2011

  • Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

    Happy Thanksgiving (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • Also, six of the sixty-three moons in our solar system orbit in the opposite direction to that of the planets and the other moons.64 If the solar system has originated from a rotating nebular cloud, as asserted by the theory of evolution, everything in the cloud should turn in the same direction and it would be impossible that nine planets and moons would rotate and even orbit in the opposite direction.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • In 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rendered a decision on an “issue of first impression” interpreting a one hundred and sixty-three year old provision of the United States Code - the “false marking” statute embodied in 35 U.S.C. § 292.

    Revitalizing false patent marking Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • At sixty-three and about six feet tall, he looked fit and comfortable, particularly for someone facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • Dinwiddie was wearing down at age sixty-three, and he talked about retiring and going home.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Dinwiddie was wearing down at age sixty-three, and he talked about retiring and going home.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • See if anyone at school lives at sixty-three Fifth.

    Famous Todd Strasser 2011

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