Definition of Sixscore

1. a. & n. Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

Definition of Sixscore

1. Noun. (archaic) One hundred and twenty. ¹

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Definition of Sixscore

1. one hundred and twenty [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixscore

sixes and nines
sixfold
sixfoldness
sixgill
sixgills
sixies
sixish
sixling
sixmos
sixness
sixpence
sixpences
sixpenny
sixpenny nail
sixscore (current term)
sixscores
sixshooter
sixshooters
sixsome
sixsomes
sixte
sixteen
sixteen-penny nail
sixteen hundred
sixteen penny nail
sixteenfold
sixteenish
sixteenmos

Literary usage of Sixscore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mair's Introduction to Latin Syntax by John Mair, David Patterson, Aglionby Ross Carson (1828)
"... not враге Nineveh, thai great city, wherein are more tban sixscore thousand persons, and also much cattle ? ..."

2. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"To Barret and Kimberley sixscore acres. Two timber trees to every acre. Answer. Barret I know not; but I confess I sold these three years, minis 1577,1578, ..."

3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1837)
"... estimat to pay sixscore thirteen merks ten shillings and eight-pence stock, ... may pay sixscore three merks ten shillings eight pennies, stock, teind, ..."

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