sixteenth 
I. a. 1. Next in order after the fifteenth; be- 
ing the sixth after the tenth : the ordinal of six- 
teen. 2. Being one of sixteen equal parts into 
which a whole is divided. 
II. n. 1. One of sixteen equal parts. 2. 
In uiiixic: (a) The melodic or harmonic inter- 
val of two octaves and a second. (6) A six- 
teenth-note. 3. Inearly Eng. lair, a sixteenth 
of the rents of the year, or of movables, or 
both, granted or levied by way of tax. 
Sixteenth-note (siks'tenth'not), . In iiiH.s-1- 
cal notation, a note equivalent in time-value to 
one half of an eighth-note : marked by the sign 
P Or C] or, in groups, H , M . Also called 
Kcmiquarer.- Sixteenth-note rest! See resti, 8 (6). 
sixteenth-rest (siks'tfath'rest), n. In musi- 
cal notation, same as sixteenth-note ri'st. 
sixth (siksth), a. and . [With term, conformed 
to -<A 3 ; < ME. sixt, sexte, sixte, syxte, seextc, 
siste, seste, < AS. sixta = OS. seltsto = OFries. 
sexta = MD. seste, D. zesde = MLG. seste, seste 
= OHG. selisto, MHG. sehste, G. secliste = Icel. 
setti = Sw. Dan. sjclte = Goth, saihsta = L. 
sextus (> It. sesto = Sp. Pg. sexto = F. sixte); as 
six + -tliS.] I. a. 1. Being the first after the 
fifth: the ordinal of six. 2. Being one of six 
equal parts into which a whole is divided. 
Sixth-day, Friday, as the sixth day of the week : so called 
among the Society of Friends. The sixth hour, the sixth 
of twelve hours reckoned from sunrise to sunset ; the noon- 
tide hour ; specifically, the canonical hour of sext. 
Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth 
hour. Acts x. 9. 
II. 11. 1. A sixth part. 2. In early KIIIJ. 
law, a sixth of the rents of the year, or of mov- 
ables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax. 
3. In music." (a) A tone on the sixth degree 
above or below a given tone. (6) The interval 
between any tone and a tone on the sixth de- 
gree above or below it. (c) The harmonic com- 
bination of two tones at the interval thus de- 
scribed, (d) In a scale, the sixth tone from the 
bottom; the submediant: solmizated la. The 
typical interval of the sixth is that between the first and 
the sixth tones of a major scale, which is acoustically rep- 
resented by the ratio 3 : 5. Such a sixth is called major. A 
sixth a half-step shorter is called minor; one two half-steps 
shorter is called diminished ; and one a half-step longer is 
called augmented, extreme, etc. Major and minor sixths 
are classed as consonances ; other sixths as dissonances. 
Chord of the added sixth, in music, a chord consisting 
of the first, second, fourth, and sixth tones of a scale, and 
usually regarded as asubdominanttriad with a sixth from 
the root added. Its derivation is disputed. Chord of 
the extreme sixth, in music, a chord in which, as typi- 
cally arranged, there is an interval of an extreme or aug- 
mented sixth between the upper tone and the lower. It 
has three forms (a) the French sixth, consisting of the 
first, second, sixth, and sharped fourth of a minor scale ; 
,_ i i i (6) the German sixth, consist- 
zZ&t-tS-^SsJ^ld- ing of the first, third, sixth, 
(_',) '^-^ "s^'' "^ !iml sharped fourth of such ;i 
scale ; (c) the Italian sixth, 
*""* "" """ consisting of the first, sixth, 
and sharped fourth of such a scale. Chord of the Sixth, 
in muftic, a chord consisting of a tone with its third and its 
sixth : it is usually regarded as simply the first inversion 
of a triad. Neapolitan sixth. See Neapolitan. 
Sixthly (siksth'li), adv. [< sixtli + -fy2.] i n 
the sixth place. 
sixtieth (siks'ti-eth), a. and n. [< ME. *six- 
tietJie, < AS. sixtigotha =Icel. sextiigandi = Sw. 
sextionde (cf. D. zestigste = G. sechszigste, sech- 
zigste), sixtieth; as sixty + -etliS.] I. a. 1. 
Next in order after the fifty-ninth: an ordinal 
numeral. 2. Being one of sixty equal parts 
into which anything is divided. 
II. . One of sixty equal parts. 
Sixtine (siks'tin), a. Same as Sistine. 
sixty (siks'ti), a. and n. [< ME. sixty, sixti, 
sexti, sextig, < AS. sixtig, sixteg = OFries. sexticli, 
sextech = MD. sestig, D. zestig = OHG. sehszug, 
MHG. sehzec, sehzic, G. sechszig, sechzig = Icel. 
sextttgr, sextogr, sextigir.mod. sextin = Sw. sextio 
(cf. Dan. tredsindstyve) = Goth, sailis-tigjus; as 
six + -ty 1 . Cf. Ij r sexaginta, < sex, six, + -ginta, 
short for *decinta, tenth, < decem, ten.] I. a. 
Being the product of six and ten; being the 
sumof fifty and ten: a cardinal numeral Sixty- 
knotted guipure. See guipure. 
II. w. 1. The product of six and ten; the 
sum of fifty and ten. 2. A symbol represent- 
ing sixty units, as 60, LX, Ix. 
Sixtyfour-mo (siks'ti-for'mo), n. [An E. read- 
ing of G4/o, prop. L. in LXIFmo, i. e. in sexa- 
gesimo quarto; sexagesimo, abl. of sexagcfimn.-,; 
sixtieth (< gexaginta, sixty: see sixty); quarto, 
abl. of quartns, fourth: see quart, quarto.] A 
sheet of paper when regularly folded in 64 leaves 
of equal size ; a pamphlet or book made up of 
folded sheets of 64 leaves. When the size of paper 
is not named, the 64mo leaf is supposed to be 2$ by 3J 
inches, or about that size. 
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sixty-fourth (siks'ti-forth'), a. Fourth in or- 
der after the sixtieth. 
sixty -fourth-note (siks'ti-forth'not), H. In 111 ii- 
xii'iil notation, a note equivalent in time-value 
to one half of a thirty-second-note ; a hemideini- 
J 
, 
f, or, in groups, 
Sixty-fourth-note rest. See resti, 8 (b\ 
sixty-six (siks'ti-siks'), H. A game of cards 
played, generally by two persons, with 24 cards, 
the ace, ten, king, queen, knave, and nine 
ranking in the order named. Each player receives 
six cards, and as fast as one is thrown from the hand re- 
ceives another from the undealt pack until it is exhausted ; 
each card except the nine-spot has to the taker a certain 
value, as the ace 11, the queen 3, etc., and the object of 
the player is to capture as many of these as possible, and 
to secure marriages that is, the possession of a king and 
queen of the same suit; the player first winning sixty-six 
scores one point ; seven points make a game. 
six-wired (siks'wlrd), a. In ornith., six-fea- 
thered. Compare twelve-wired, under Seleitcides. 
sizable (si'za-bl), a. [Also sizeable; < size 1 + 
-able.} Of a relatively good, suitable, or desira- 
ble size, usually somewhat large. 
A ... modern virtuoso, finding such a machine alto- 
gether unwieldy and useless, . . . invented that sizeable in- 
strument which is now in use. Addison, Tatler, No. 220. 
William Wotton, B. D., . . . has written a good sizeable 
volume against a friend of your governor. 
Sic\rt, Tale of a Tub, Ded. 
sizal (siz'al), H. Same as Sinai hemp. See 
lieneqni'ii. 
sizar (si'zar), H. [Also sizar; < size 1 , an allow- 
ance of provisions, + -or 1 for -er 1 .] At the 
University of Cambridge, or at Trinity College, 
Dublin, an undergraduate student who, in con- 
sideration of his comparative poverty, usually 
receives free commons. Compare serritor (c). 
The distinction between pensioners and sizers is by no 
means considerable. . . , Nothing is more common than 
to see pensioners and sizers taking sweet counsel together, 
and walking arm in arm to St. Mary's as friends. 
Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1824). 
The sizars paid nothing for food and tuition, and very 
little for lodging ; but they had to perform some menial 
services from which they have long been relieved. They 
swept the court ; they carried up the dinner to the fel- 
lows' table, and changed the plates and poured out the ale 
of the rulers of the society. Macaulay, Oliver Goldsmith. 
Sizars are generally Students of limited means. They 
usually have their commons free, and receive various 
emoluments. Cambridge University Calendar, 1889, p. 5. 
sizar ship (si'ziir-ship), n. [< sizar + -ship.] 
The position, rank, or privileges of a sizar. 
Public Schools, where the sons of the lower classes wait- 
ed on the sons of the upper classes, and received certain 
benefits (in food, clothes, and instruction) from them in 
return. In fact the sizarships in our modern colleges ap- 
pear to be a modified continuation of this ancient system. 
O'Curry, Ancient Irish, I. iv. 
size 1 (six). H. [Early mod. E. also sise; < ME. 
sise, sysc, syce, by apheresis from assisc, asisc, 
allowance; hence, generally, measure, magni- 
tude: see assize.] 1. A fixed rate regulating 
the weight, measure, price, or proportion of any 
article, especially food or drink; a standard. 
See assize, n., 2. 
Hit hath be vsid, the Malre of Bristow ... to do calle 
byfore hym ... all the Bakers of Bristowe, there to vn- 
dirstand whate stuff they haue of whete. And after, what 
sise they shall bake. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 424. 
Also this yere was an acte of parliament for wood and 
coal to kepe the fulle siee after the Purification of our La- 
die, that shall be in the yere of ourLorde M.D.xliii. that no 
man shall bargaine, sell, bryng, or conueigh of any other 
sine, to be vttered or solde, vpon pain of forfaiture. 
Fabyan, Chron. (ed. Ellis), p. 705. 
To repress Drunkenness, which the Danes had brought 
in, he made a Law, ordaining a Size, by certain Pins in the 
Pot, with Penalty to any that should presume to drink 
deeper than the Mark. Baker, Chronicles, p. 11. 
2. A specified or fixed amount of food and 
drink; a ration. 
'Tisnotin thee 
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, 
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes. 
SA*.,Lear, ii. 4.178. 
A Size is a portion of bread or drinke, i. is a farthing, 
which Schollers in Cambridge haue at the butterie ; it is 
noted with the letter S., as in Oxeford with the letter Q. fur 
halfe a farthing and q*. for a farthing ; and whereas they 
say in Oxeford to Battle in the butterie booke, i. to set 
downe on their names what they take in Bread, Drinke, 
Butter, Cheese, &c., so in Cambridge they say to Size, i. to 
set downe their quantum, i. how much they take on their 
names in the Butterie booke. 
Minsheu, Guide into Tongues (161 7). 
3. Hence, in university use, a charge made for 
an extra portion of food or drink ; a farthing, 
as the former price of each portion. The word 
was also used more generally, to note any ad- 
ditional expense incurred. 
I grew weary of staying with Sir Williams both, and the 
more for that my Lady Batten and her crew, at least half 
size 
a score, came into the room, and I believe we shall pay 
size for it. I'epys, Diary, Sept. 4, 1G6!>. 
4f. A portion allotted by chance or fate; a 
share ; a peculiar or individual allotment. 
Hast thow wylnet by couetyse 
Worldes gode ouer xyse* 
Myrc, Instructions for Parish Priests (E. E. T. S.), 
(1. 1282. 
Our size of sorrow, 
Proportion 'd to our cause, must be as great 
As that which makes it. Shale., A. and C., iv. 15. 4. 
5t. Grade of quality or importance ; rank ; 
class ; degree ; order. 
Neither was he [Christ | served in state, his attendants 
being of the mechanick size. 
Penn, Advice to Children, iii. 
A plain sermon, for a middling or lower size of people. 
Swift. 
6. Rate of dimension, whether linear, square, 
or solid; material proportions; relative mag- 
nitude : now the usual sense. 
iij perchers of wax then shalle he fet, 
A-bone tho chymne that is sett, 
In syce ichoil from other shalle be 
The lengthe of other that men may se. 
Bailees Book(E. E. T. S.), p. 314. 
Both the cherubims were of one measure and one size. 
1 Ki. vi. 25. 
7. One of a regularly increasing series of di- 
mensions used for manufactured articles which 
are bought ready-made; specifically, as used 
by shoemakers, three eighths of an inch in 
length. 
There is not a size of paper in the palace large enough 
to tell you how much I esteem myself honoured in your re- 
membrances. Donne, Letters, xxxii. 
This calumnious disguise was crowned and completed 
by a soft felt hat of the Tyrolese design, and several sizes 
too small. R. L. Stevenson, The Dynamiter, p. 98. 
8. Extent, or volume, or magnitude in other 
respects, as of time, sound, or effort. 
And so shall the earth remaine fortie dayes, although 
those dayes shall be of a larger size then these. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 305. 
Often shrieking undistingnish'd woe, 
In clamours of all size, both high and low. 
Shak. , Lover's Complaint, 1. 21. 
I have ever verified my friends, 
Of whom he *s chief, with all the size that verity 
Would without lapsing suffer. Shak., Cor., v. 2. 18. 
9. pi. A session of a court of justice ; assizes. 
See assize, 6. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
And there 's the satin that your worship sent me, 
Will serve you at a sizes yet. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 4. 
10. An implement for measuring pearls, con- 
sisting of a number of thin leaves pierced with 
holes of different diameters, and fastened to- 
gether. The test is made by observing how 
many of the holes the pearl will pass through. 
Heroic size. See heroic. Pope's size. Seepopei. 
Sizes Of paper. See paper. = Syn. 6. Sue, Magnitude, 
Bulk, Volume. Size is the general word for things large or 
small. In ordinary discourse magnitude applies to large 
things ; but it is also an exact word, and is much used in 
science : as, a star of the fourth magnitude. Bulk sug- 
gests noticeable size, especially size rounding out into un- 
wieldiness. Volume is a rather indefinite word, arising 
from the idea of rolling a thing up till it attains size, 
though with no especial suggestion of shape. We speak 
of the magnitude of a calamity or of a fortune, the bulk of 
a bale of cotton or of an elephant, the volume of smoke or 
of an avalanche. 
size 1 (siz), v. ; pret. and pp. sized, ppr. sizing. 
[<)>e 1 ,.] I. trans. 1. To regulate the weight, 
measure, extent, value, etc., of; fix the rate or 
standard of; assize. 
The Coynes which they had were either of brasse, or else 
iron rings sized at a certaine waight, which they used for 
their monies. 
J. Speed, Hist. Great Britain (ed. 1650), p. 169. 
There was also a statute for the dispersing of the stan- 
dard of the Exchequer throughout England, thereby to 
size weights and measures ; and two or three more of lesse 
importance. Bacon, Hist, Hen. VII., p. 101. 
2. At Cambridge and other universities, to ob- 
tain (food or drink) in extra portions at a fixed 
rate of charge ; hence, in general, to buy at a 
fixed rate ; purchase. 
Drinking college tap-lash . . . will let them have no 
more learning than they size, nor a drop of wit more than 
the butler sets on their heads. 
Randolph, Aristippus (Works, ed. Hazlitt, 1875, p. 14). 
When they come into town after commons, they may be 
allowed to size a meal at the kitchen. 
Laws of Harvard College (1798), p. 39 (quoted in College 
[Words and Customs, p. 428). 
At the close of each quarter the Butler shall make up 
his bill against each student, in which every article sized 
or taken up by him at the Buttery shall be particularly 
charged. 
Lam of Yale College (1811), p. 31 (quoted in College Words 
(and Customs, p. 428). 
3. To supply with sizes ; hence, to fill or other- 
wise affect by sizes or portions. 
