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sixty, a. and n.|ˈsɪkstɪ|
Forms: α. 1 siexteᵹ, 2–4 sixti (4 zixti), 4– sixty, 5 -sty, 6 sixtye, 6–7 sixtie; 1–2 syxtiᵹ, 3–6 syxty (5 syxti). β. 1 sexteiᵹ, -tih, -deih, -diᵹ, 1–2 sextiᵹ, 4–6 sexti, 4–6 sexty (5 cexty, Sc. sextie, sexte); Sc. 5 saxte, 6 -tie, 9 -ty.
[OE. siex-, syx-, sextiᵹ, = OFris. sextich, -tech (WFris. sechstich), MDu. sestich (Du. zestig), OS. sehstic (MLG. sestich, LG. sestig, söstig), OHG. sehszug, etc. (MHG. sehzic, -zec, G. sechzig), ON. sextigir (MSw. säxtighi, MDa. sexti; Icel. sextíu, Sw. sextio).]
The cardinal number equal to six times ten, represented by the symbols 60, LX, or lx.
A. adj.
1. a. In concord with a n. expressed or implied.
αc893K. ælfred Oros. iv. vi. 172 æfter siexteᵹum daᵹa ðæs þe ðæt timber acorfen wæs. 971Blickl. Hom. 35 On þæm ᵹeare bið þreo hund daᵹa & fif & syxtiᵹ daᵹa. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 852, He scolde ᵹife ilca ᵹear into þe minstre sixtiᵹe foðra wuda. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 51 On þralshipe hie wuneden two and sixti wintre. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7260 In a þousend ȝer of grace & sixe & sixti riȝt. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 441 Sixty sythes I..haue forȝete it sith. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. viii. ix. 306 Syxty secondes make one mynute, syxty mynutes one gree. 1560Bible (Genevan) Gen. v. 20 So all the days of Iered were nine hundreth sixty and two yeres. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. vii. 50, I haue sixty Sailes, Cæsar none better. 1611Bible Numb. vii. 88 The rammes sixtie, the hee goates sixtie. 1816Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. i. 33 Longman's people had then only sixty copies. a1860Alb. Smith Med. Student (1861) 39 Some sixty of these small pieces of paper.
βc950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. p. 19 Bisin [he] cueð wæstm[es] ðrittiᵹes, sexteiᵹes, & hundrades. Ibid. Mark iv. 20 [Hia] wæstmiað an ðrittiᵹ & an sextiᵹ. c1250Gen. & Ex. 663 Twelwe and sexti men woren ðor-to. 1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10197 In þat louh ar sexti iles. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 234 Ich saued my-self and sexty þousand lyues. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 827 Sexty thai slew. Ibid. x. 878 Off his best men saxte was brocht toded. 1589Montgomery Misc. Poems lviii. 6 Tuyse sax and saxtie ȝeirs he livd. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiii, I hae kend this auld kirk, man and bairn, for saxty lang years.
†b. Sixtieth. Obs.—0
1483Cath. Angl. 332/1 Sexty,..sexagesimus.
2. a. Followed immediately by a lesser numeral, as sixty-one, etc.
1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Serplath, Ane thousand, three hundreth, sextie aucht zeires. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Star, Reducing the..Number of Knights [of the Star] to Sixty-two. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 177 The most valuable of these was published by Purchas in sixty-six plates. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xi, The actress, who was sixty-five years of age. 1868Rep. U.S. Commiss. Agric. (1869) 191 The new building..is one hundred and seventy feet long by sixty-one feet deep.
b. sixty-six, a card-game in which a point is gained by scoring sixty-six; sixty-nine, 69 = soixante-neuf.
1857T. Frere Hoyle's Games 4 The German game of ‘Sechs und Sechszig’, or Sixty-six, has never before, that we are aware of, been dressed in an English garb. 1888[see soixante-neuf]. 1897Daily News 22 Feb. 9/2 The game was called ‘66’. 1973D. Lang Freaks 90 We spent many hours lying on her bed, more or less in the classical 69 position, but motionless. 1978Guardian Weekly 23 Apr. 21/5 When I first met him, I thought 69 was a bottle of Scotch.
3. a. Forming part of an ordinal number.
1647Form for Ch. Govt. Prop. 12 The sixtie one Canon of the sixth generall Synode. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 395 The sixty-second year of his age. 1821Byron Cain ii. ii. 71 As The sixty-thousandth generation shall be. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 77 The patient was out of bed on the sixty-second [day].
b. With part, or used absol. in this sense, esp. sixty-fourth; hence sixty-fourther, one who owns a sixty-fourth part of a vessel.
1768Dr. Chauncy Lett. 74 It was but the sixty-thousandth part. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. I. 269 A favor in the form of sixty-fourths of lottery-tickets. 1889Whitby Gaz. 14 June 3/3 A shipowning port, in which the disease of the sixty fourther exists in an aggravated form. 1899Werner Capt. Locusts 76 The minutest fraction of European blood,..one thirty-second, perhaps, or one sixty-fourth.
B. n.
1. a. The abstract number sixty.
1340Ayenb. 234 Þe tale of zixti þet is wel gratter, þet is of zixziþe ten. a1400Pistill of Susan 91 Turtils troned on trene By sixti I sayȝ. c1425Crafte Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 4 Þere he [the figure 6] schuld tokyne but sexty. 1594Blundevil Exerc. i. (1636) 84 Which [numbers] maketh two sixties to bee kept in mind. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Character, The same Characters are sometimes us'd, where the Progression is by Tens; as 'tis here by Sixties. 1755Johnson, Second,..the second division of an hour by sixty. 1886Pendlebury Arithm. (1897) 5 The number in six groups of ten is called sixty.
b. like sixty, with great force or vigour; at a great rate. colloq. or slang. (Cf. forty A. b.)
1848Lowell Biglow Papers Poems (1890) II. 135 Though like sixty all along I fumed an' fussed. 1860Slang Dict. 215 ‘To go like sixty,’ i.e. at a good rate, briskly. 1910Dialect Notes III. 445 That child cuts up like sixty. 1975J. D. Fitzgerald Great Brain does it Again ii. 20 We ran like sixty to the front porch.
c. sixty per cent, a usurer. colloq.
1853Reade Gold i. 1 What you do on the sly, I do on the sly, old sixty per cent. 1897Marsh Crime & Criminal xii, Was he going to develop into a sixty per cent, and offer me a loan?
2. Sixty years of age. Also sixty-one, sixty-two, etc.
1717Prior Alma iii. 503 We find ourselves at Sixty wise. 1780Mirror No. 103, He seemed to be about sixty, but retained a..florid complexion. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xxvi, He appeared to be about sixty-five. 1872Calverley Fly Leaves (1903) 30 Although I am but sixty-three Or four. 1890Spectator 11 Oct. 473/2 An old lady over sixty.
3. pl. The years from 60 to 69 in a century or in a person's life. Now spec. the period 1960–9.
1886Besant Childr. Gibeon ii. xxi, The old patter, that spoken by himself in the early sixties, was unknown. 1889R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Mythol. 9 A series of works published in the fifties and sixties. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media ii. xxxi. 320 TV in the Fifties and Sixties spread to the entire population. 1978Listener 3 Aug. 145/1, I was, alas, one of those who spent the Sixties sneering at the notion of parish⁓pump broadcasting. 1981‘D. Shannon’ Murder most Strange ii. 34 They were both in the sixties, middle-sized, sandy coloring. 1983D. Gethin Wyatt xiv. 99 An ageing sixties swinger with the elegant mannerisms of a professional hotelier.
4. a. pl. A particular quality of wool. b. A certain size of sewing-cotton.
1894Daily News 23 Jan. 2/6 Medium sixties are a shade weaker. Ibid. 2 Feb. 2/6 Super 60's and the finer crossbreds..are steady. 1907H. Wales The Yoke xix, Three reels of white cotton—one eighty and two sixty.
c. A small flower-pot, sixty of which are formed from a cast of clay.
1802W. Forsyth Treat. Culture & Managem. Fruit-Trees viii. 114 There are some [pots] smaller than sixtys, for seedlings and heaths. 1895[see sixteen n. 5]. 1962A. J. Huxley Garden Terms Simplified 69 Above are shown, to scale top row from left to right, an 8½ in. pot (16),..and a 3½ in. pot (large 60).
C. Comb.
a. With ns., forming attributive compounds, as sixty-gun, or with nouns in -er, sixty-pounder; sixty-miler (Austral.), a small cargo vessel which transports coal along the coast from Newcastle to Sydney; also sixty-sized adj.
1747Dr. Lind Lett. rel. Navy (1757) I. 35 note, None who had not commanded..60 gun ships, would have a right [etc.]. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 317 The French had erected a battery of twenty-four sixty pounders [etc.]. 1828Cunningham N.S. Wales II. 257 Why could not the fellow..have had his sixty-guinea hoard taken from him? 1851Glenny Handbk. Flower Garden 155 When they have taken good root, pot them into sixty-sized pots. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 123 A new 60-stamp mill has been under course of construction. 1933I. Hamilton Nights Ashore 29 The Five Stars was a few tons larger than the average ancient sixty miler. Ibid. 210 During the slack ‘sixty-miler’ season. 1940Blunden Poems 1930–40 202 And as the stream's last murmer stilled, Our sixty-pounders started talking. 1948Sydney Morning Herald 28 Jan. 1/7 Sydney's gas supply now depends on the ‘60-milers’.
b. Similarly when followed by a lesser number.
1860All Year Round No. 73. 547 The gun was designed for a sixty-eight pound shot. Ibid., No sixty-eight pounder in the service. 1896Godey's Mag. Apr. 407/1, I..returned..holding the sixty-one day record. 1899Westm. Gaz. 2 Aug. 7 The sailing yacht Vendetta, a well-known sixty-five rater.
c. sixty-fourmo (see quot.). Also called sixty-fours.
1805in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) ii. 92 Forty-eights to be paid two shillings per sheet extra, and sixty-fours two shillings and sixpence per sheet extra. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 126 Sixty-fourmo, a sheet folded into sixty-four leaves—written shortly, 64mo.
d. sixty-four dollar question, $64 question, orig. the question posed at the climax of a U.S. radio quiz for a prize of sixty-four dollars, used transf. to denote a difficult or crucial question; also sixty-four dollar answer, sixty-four thousand dollar question, and varr.
1942J. R. Tunis All American vii. 240 Here's the sixty⁓four dollar question. Will the team go to Miami? 1942Time 18 May 22/3 The Jap..could still sweat over the $64 question. 1955M. Gilbert Sky High xii. 176 ‘What have these receivers got to do with us?..‘That's the sixty⁓four dollar question.’ 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 150 All the time he had the sixty-four dollar answer but did not know it. 1957Observer 21 July 1/3 Mr. Macmillan said..there was only one answer to the 64,000-dollar question—to increase production. 1958Listener 4 Dec. 930/1, I come now to what you probably feel is the sixty-four-dollar question. How is all this to be paid for? 1963N.Y. Times 2 Dec. 37/1 Mr. Baker..left the air, to return in 1942 as master of ceremonies on ‘Take it or Leave it’... He posed ‘the $64 question’, a term that became part of everyday language. 1967N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Dec. 27/1 On June 1, 1955, ‘The $64,000 Question’ was born and commercial television was never the same again. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 143/2 Like his predecessor on this rostrum he left it to Mr. Tyrrell Burgess, our lecturer tonight, to tackle the sixty-four dollar question—What now? 1981B. Healey Last Ferry from Lido vi. 101 It still leaves the sixty-four thousand dollar question. Where do we go from here? |