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The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
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sixteen
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Sixteen is a card game for 2 or 4 players, designed for players 8 and older, and published by Alpine Games . According to Major Fun, the game includes a good balance of strategy and luck, it is easy to learn, and takes approximately 15 minutes to play.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sixtyne , from siex (see six ) + -teen . Similar formation in Old Frisian sextine , Middle Dutch sestien , Dutch zestien , German sechszehn , Old Norse sextan .\nThe age of the gods is always sixteen. Sixteen represents the number of perfection, ...
Usage examples of sixteen.
In the second case, in a youth of sixteen, death occurred after washing out a deep abscess of the nates with the same solution.
DEAR SON, The Lord Adelantado and your brother and Carbajal left here sixteen days ago to go to the Court.
A few days later he sent me some plants with sixteen seeds or fruits adhering to fourteen leaves.
Thirty seconds later sixteen of them were crouched on the aft hull, all carrying machine guns, wearing balaclava hoods and wired into their walkie-talkies.
The ranks of the winged were growing, for the Youth of sixteen were being enlisted, and now the count of able-bodied alated was well over two hundred thousand.
With four of us using our allas at the same time we could get sixteen pi meters, which is, urn, 164 feet and 10.
At age sixteen, I developed alopecia areata, a condition that causes patches of baldness in an otherwise healthy head of hair.
To get at them, Meir Amit used his top agent inside Egypt, the riding-school-owner Wolfgang Lutz, who found himself from September 1963 onward forced to take suicidal risks, which sixteen months later would lead to his undoing.
The State in its three institutions--the common school, the high school, the college and university--has many in its care and under its tuitions for fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years, and in these tuitions has she created in her children a new nature, whatever their ancestry or place of birth.
Machen glanced behind him to where two Arachno MekTek guards stood still and silent, their sixteen eyes shining masks of reflective carbon plate.
Those seventeen-now reduced to sixteen since Doole had eliminated Arb Skynxnex from consideration-clearly had been rising stars in the Black Sun organization.
Only those above sixteen karats are sent on here to Khanbalik, and only those assayed at the fineness of pure unalloyed gold, twenty-four karats, have any hope of getting near the great Khakhan.
They were individually more powerful than any past Manticoran battlecruiser had ever mounted, with fourteen emitters per cluster, each capable of cycling at one shot every sixteen seconds.
I sat at the left of Madame Isola-Bella, who began to play, and as there were fifteen or sixteen of us I had lost about fifty sequins when my turn came, for my harlequin had not appeared once.
The memorable benefaction of the year 508, which was a famine reinforced by a pestilence, swept away sixteen hundred millions of people in nine months.