Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary   six-shooter sixteenmo   CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.   sixteen   SYLLABICATION: six·teen PRONUNCIATION:   sk-stn NOUN: 1. The cardinal number equal to the sum of 15 + 1. 2. The 16th in a set or sequence. ETYMOLOGY: Middle English sixtene, from Old English sixtne. See s(w)eks in Appendix I. OTHER FORMS: six·teen —ADJECTIVEpron.     The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   six-shooter sixteenmo     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com