Definition of "sixe" [sixe]

• Obsolete spelling of six. (noun)

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• "Their Grammarians made a great multitude of feete, I wot not to what huge number, and of so many sizes as their wordes were of length, namely sixe sizes, whereas indeede, the metricall feete are but twelve in number, wherof foure only be of two times, and eight of three times, the rest compounds of the premised two sorts, even as the Arithmeticall numbers aboue three are made of two and three."
• "I wot not to what huge number, and of so many sizes and their wordes were of length, namely sixe sizes, whereas in deede, the metricall feete are but twelue in number, whereof foure only be of two times, and eight of three times, the rest compounds of the premised two sorts, euen as the Arithmeticall numbers aboue three are made of two and three."
• "Gallopp (for your vse) a few thinges that I hope may bee vsefull, namely sixe bushels of barly mault, sixe bushels of Indian mault, & one bushel of oatemeale."