Sivaite 
Sivaite (se'va-It), a. and . [< W/vf + -ite^.] 
Adhering to, or an adherent of, the god Siva; 
belonging to the sect or body of Hindus who 
worship Siva as highest god. 
Here, in historical times, was the home of Sankara 
-Vcharya the great Sivaite reformer of the 8th century. 
Encyc. Brit., XIII. 815. 
Sivalik (si-va'lik), a. Same as Siwalik. 
Sivan (siv'an), n. [< Heb. strait.] The third 
inontli of tlie Jewish sacred year and the ninth 
of the civil year, corresponding to the latter 
part of May and part of June. 
Siva-snake (se'va-snak), . A book-name of 
Ophiophagus elaps, a very large and deadly 
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Siva-snake (OphiophagMS elafs). 
cobriform serpent of India: so called from its 
powers of destruction. See Opliiopliagus. 
Sivathere (siv'a-ther), w. A sivatherium. 
Sivatheriidae (siv'a-the-ri'i-de),n.j/. [NL.,< 
Sivatherium + -idee.] A family of fossil artio- 
dactyl and presumably ruminant mammals, of 
uncertain position in the suborder Artiodactyla, 
typified by the genus Sivatherium. The skull is 
broad behind, contracted forward in front of the molar 
teeth, with the facial part shortened and produced down- 
ward, and the nasal bones short and arched ; it bears two 
pairs of horns, supported on bony cores. There are three 
molar and three premolar teeth on each side of each jaw, 
broad, with inner crescentic plates of enamel running in 
large sinuous flexures. The family has been united by 
some with the GiraffidK, and by others considered as find- 
ing its nearest living relative in the North American An- 
tilocapridfe, the horns being similarly furcate and borne on 
long bony cores, unlike the antlers of deer. 
sivatherioid (siv-a-the'ri-oid), a. [< SiratJicri- 
um + -old.] Resembling or related to the siv- 
atherium ; of or pertaining to the tUvatheriidx. 
Sivatherium (siv-a-the'ri-um), n. [NL. (Fal- 
coner and Cautley), < Siva, the Hindu god, + 
Gr. fh/pinv, a wild beast.] 1. The typical genus 
of Sivatlieriittse. The species is S. yiijantewm, discov- 
ered in the Siwalik Hills, of huge dimensions for a rumi- 
nant, with a skull as long as an elephant's. The animal 
had four horns, and a large tumid muzzle, perhaps some- 
what as in the living saiga antelope. Also called Sival- 
hippus. 
2. [/. o.] An animal of this genus; a Sivathere. 
sive 1 t, n. and v. An obsolete spelling of sieve. 
sive 2 (siv), . A dialectal variant of scythe, 
ffalliicell. 
siver 1 t (siv'er), v. i. [An imitative variant of 
simmer 1 , the form perhaps influenced by shiver 2 
and quiver^.] To simmer. Holland. 
siver 2 t, n. A Scotch form of sewer 3 . 
siwens, . See sibbens. 
Siwalik (si-wa'lik), a. [Also Sivalik, in E. 
sometimes SetcalicJc; < Hind. Siwalik, Siwalikh.] 
Pertaining or belonging to or found in the Si- 
waliks, the southern outlying range of the Him- 
alayas: as, the Siwalik strata; Siwalik fossils. 
Siwalik group, an important division of the Tertiary 
in the Himalayas. The group is of land and fresh-water 
origin, and is extremely rich in fossils, chiefly of Mam- 
malia, among which are great numbers of Ungulata. ani- 
mals of large size occurring in preponderating numbers. 
More than ftO genera of Mammalia are included in the Si- 
walik fauna, many of them still existing. 
six (siks), a. and n. [So. also sax; < ME. six, 
sex, sexe, sixe, < AS. six, syx, siex, seox = OS. 
sehs = OFries. sex = MD. ses, D. zes = MLG. 
ses, ses, LG. ses = OHG. MHG. sehs, G. sechs = 
Icel. Dan. Sw. sex = Goth, saihs = L. sex (> It. 
set = Sp. Pg. Pr. sets = F. sir) = Gr. ef = W. 
Bret, chwech = Ir. se = Gael, se = Lith. szeszi 
= OBulg. shesti = Pol. szesc = Bohem. sliest = 
Buss, shesti = Zend khshvasli, Pers. shash = 
Skt. sliash, six. Hence sixth, sixteen, etc. ; from 
the L., sext, sextant, sexier, sextet, sextuple, sexa- 
genarian, sexagesima, sexennial, senary, sice 1 , 
etc.; and from Gr., hexagon, hexagonal, hexam- 
eter, etc.] I. a. One more than five; being 
twice three : a cardinal numeral Involution of 
5662 
Six screws. Seeineulutirin. SixNations. See Iroquois. 
- Six-Principle Baptists. See baptixt, 2. Six-year 
molar, the first permanent molar tooth. The Six Acts. 
See at-t. The Six Articles. See article. The Six Com- 
panies, six great organizations of Chinese merchants in 
San Francisco, which control Chinese immigration into the 
United States and the immigrants The whip with, six 
Strings. Seethe Six Articles, under article. 
II. H. 1. The number greater by one than 
five ; twice three. For the cabalistic signifi- 
cance of six, see seven. 2. A symbol repre- 
senting this number, as 6, or VI, or yi. 3. In 
games: (a) A playing-card bearing six spots or 
pips; a six-spot. (6) On a die, the face which 
bears six spots; hence, a die which turns up 
that face. 
It is a hundred to one if a man fling two sixes and re- 
cover all. Couiey, Danger of Procrastination. 
4. Beer sold at six shillings a barrel ; hence, 
small beer. 
Look if he be not drank ! The very sight of him makes 
one long for a cup of nix. Rowley, Match at Midnight, i. 1. 
Mr. Steevens . . . says that small beer still goes by the 
cant name of fixes. Naret. 
6. pi. Bonds bearing interest at six per cent. 
The bonds became known as the sixes of 1861. 
The Nation, Oct. 10, 1867, p. 205. 
6. pi. In Eng. hymnology, a species of trochaic 
meter having six syllables to the line, and prop- 
erly four lines to the stanza At (formerly on) six 
and seven, at sixes and sevens, at odds ; in disagree- 
ment ; in confusion. Compare to set on seven, under seven. 
Lat not this wreched wo thyne herte gnawe, 
But, manly, set the world on six and senene, 
And if thow deye a martyr, go to hevene. 
Chaucer, Troll us, iv. 622. 
Alle in sundur hit [the tunj brast, 
In six or in senyn. 
Awwyne of King Arther, St. 64. (Ritson's Eng. Metr. 
|Rom., p. 89.) 
Bot be thay past me by, by Mahowne in heven, 
I shalle, and that in by, set alle on sex and seem; 
Trow ye a kyng as I wyll suffre thaym to neven 
And to have maatry bot myself fulle even. 
Towneley Mysteries, p. 143. 
All is uneven, 
And every thing is left at six and seven. 
Ska*., Rich. II.. II. 2. 122. 
Continued sixes, six per cent, bonds issued in 1861 and 
1863, redeemable in 1881, and at that time continued at 3J 
per cent. Currency sixes, six per cent, bonds issued by 
acts of 1862 and 1864, and made redeemable in United 
States Treasury notes or any other currency which the 
United States might declare a legal tender. Double 
sixes. See double. Long sixes, candles about 8 inches in 
length, weighing six to the pound. 
Man found out long sixes; Hail, candlelight ! 
Lamb, Elia, Popular fallacies, xv. 
Sevens and sixes. See seven, 3. Short sixes, candles 
from 4 to 5 inches in length, weighing six to the pound. 
That sort of a knock on the head which lights up, for 
the patient's entertainment, an imaginary general illu- 
mination of very bright short-sixes. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ii. 
Six Clerk, in Eng. Chancery, one of a number of clerks 
who, under the Master of the Rolls, were charged with 
keeping the records of the court that is, those proceed- 
ings which were engrossed on parchment. They also at 
one time had charge of the causes in court, each party 
being obliged to employ a six clerk as his representative. 
Each six clerk had a number of subordinate clerks. The 
office was abolished in 1843. Sixes and fives, a trochaic 
meter, usually of eight lines, alternately of six and five 
syllables to the line. Sixes and fours, either a dactylic 
or an iambic meter, of a varying number of lines, contain- 
ing either six or four syllables to the line. Other varieties 
occur. 
sixain (sik'san), H. [< F. sixain, OF. sisain, six- 
aine, sixain = Pr. seizen = Sp. seiseno, sixth, < 
Mli.sexenus, < L. sex, six: see sir.] 1. Astanza 
of six verses. 2. In the middle ages, an order 
of battle. 
six-banded (siks'ban'ded), a. Having six seg- 
ments of the carapace, as an armadillo. See 
poyou. 
six-belted (siks'bel"ted), a. Having six stripes 
or belts : in the phrase six-belted clearwing, not- 
ing a British hawk-moth, Sesia ichneumonifor- 
mis. 
sixer (sik'ser), n. [< six + -er 1 .] Something 
possessing or connected with six or a set of six 
objects. Double Sixer, a system of twelve straight 
lines in space, consisting of two sets of six each, such that 
every line cuts every one of the other set and none of its own 
set : or, in other words, every line is on the same plane with 
every line of the other set and with none of its own set. 
sixfold (siks'fold), a. [< ME. "sixfold, < AS. six- 
feald (= Icel. sexfaldr = Dan. sexfold; cf. D. 
zes-roudig = G. sechsfdltig = Sw. sexfaldig), six- 
fold; as six + -fold.] Six times repeated; six 
times as much or as many. 
The mouth of this fish is furnished with sometimes a six- 
fold row of teeth. 
Pennant, British Zoology (ed. 1776), III. 107. 
Sixfold measure or time, in music, same as sextuple 
rhythm or time (which see, under sextuple). 
sixteenth 
sixfold (siks'fold), (iflr. l< sixfrtld, a.] In a six- 
fold degree ; with six times the amount, extent, 
value, etc. 
six-footer (siks'fufer), H. A person measuring 
six feet or more in height. [Colloq.] 
Like nearly all Tennesseans, the centenarian is a six- 
footer, chews tobacco, and loves a good story. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LXII. 73. 
six-gilled (siks'gild), a. Having six pairs of 
gill-slits, as a shark; hexanchous. See Xoti- 
danidse. 
six-hour (siks'our), a. Pertaining to a quarter 
of a day, or six hours. Six-hour circle, the hour- 
circle whose hour-angle is six hours. 
six-lined (siks'liud), a. Having six linear 
stripes: as, the six-lined lizard, scuttler, or 
streakfield, Cnemidophorus sexlincatvs. 
sixling (siks'ling), . [< six + -liny 1 ,] Acom- 
Sound or twin crystal consisting of six indivi- 
uals. 
sixpence (siks'pens), . [<> + pence.] 1. An 
English silver coin of the value of six pence 
(about 12 cents) ; half of a shilling, it was first 
issued by Edward VI., with a weight of 48 grains, and after- 
ward by other monarchs. The sixpence of Queen V ictoria 
weighs about 43J grains. 
2. The value of six pence, or half a shilling; a 
slight value : sometimes used attributively. 
In Verse or Prose, we write or chat, 
Not six-pence Matter upon what. 
Prior, To Fleetwood Shepherd. 
3t. In the United States, especially in New 
York, while the coin was in circulation, a Span- 
ish half-real, of the value of 6J cents, 
sixpenny (siks'pe-ni), a. [< six + penny.] I. 
Worth or costing sixpence : as, a sixpenny loaf. 
2. Hence, paltry; petty; cheap; worthless. 
I am joined with no foot-land rakers, no long-staff six- 
penny strikers. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 82. 
I know them, swaggering, suburblan roarers, 
Sixpenny truckers. Massinger, City Madam, ill. 1. 
Sixpenny nails. See nail, 5, and pound'. 
Have you the hangings and the Sixpenny nails for my 
Lord's Coat of Arms? 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 47. 
six-point (siks'point), a. In math., related in 
a remarkable way to six points; involving six 
points Six-point circle. See Tuclrer circle, under cir- 
cle. Six-point contact, a contact due to the coincidence 
of six points ; in the case of curves, a contact of the fifth 
order. 
six-shooter (siks'sho"ter), n. A pistol for fir- 
ing six shots in succession, usually a revolver 
with six chambers. 
"The weapons of our warfare are not carnal" bowie- 
knives, six-shooters, an' the like. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 177. 
six-spot (siks'spot), a. and n. I. a. Having six 
spots, as an insect or a playing-card: as, the 
six-spot burnet-moth. 
II. . A playing-card with six pips. 
six-stringed (siks'stringd), a. Having six 
strings Six-stringed whip, an old popular name 
for the Six Articles (which see, under article). 
sixte (sikst), n. [< F. sixte, < L. sextiis, sixth: 
see sixth.'] A parry on the fencing-floor, prob- 
ably at first the sixth position assumed by a 
swordsman after pulling his weapon from the 
scabbard held in his left hand. (See prime, se- 
conde, tierce, quart 1 *, 2, etc. ) The hand is in the nor- 
mal position on guard opposite the right breast, with 
nails upward, and point of sword raised. The parry is 
effected by moving the sword a little to the right, but 
keeping the point steady, thus causing the opponent's 
thrust to deviate. Sixte is also used for the thrust, coun- 
ter, etc.. which is parried by this movement: a point in 
sixte, for instance. 
The authors of " Fencing " prefer tierce to sixte, in which 
the masters are against them. 
Athenatum, No. 3240, p. 742. 
sixteen (siks'ten'), fl. and n. [< ME. sixtene, 
sextene, < AS. sixtene, sixtyne = OS. sestein = 
OFries. sextine. sextene = D. zestien = MHG. 
sehzehen, G. sechszelm, sechzehn = Icel. sextan 
= Sw. sexton =Dan. sxten=Goth. *sailistail/ini 
= L. sexdecim, sedecim (> It. sediei (cf. Pg. deza- 
seis, transposed) = Pr. sedze = F. seize}, sixteen ; 
as six + ten.] I. a. Being the sum of six and 
ten ; consisting of one more than fifteen : a car- 
dinal numeral. 
H. n. 1. The number made up of six and ten; 
four times fovir. 2. A symbol representing this 
number, as 16, or XVI, or xvi. 
sixteenmo (siks'ten'mo), n. See sexto-decimo. 
sixteenth (siks'tenth'), a. and . [< ME. six- 
tentlie, earlier sixtethe, sixteotlie, < AS. sixtedtha, 
syxteotlie = OFries. scxtinda, sextenda, sextiensta, 
sextendesta = D. zestiende = MHG. selizchende, 
G. secltszclintt, scchzehnte = Icel . sextdndi = Sw. 
sextonde = Dan. sextende; as sixteen + -tli'^.] 
