sixty-three

[ siks-tee-three ]

/ ˈsɪks tiˈθri /

a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.

a symbol for this number, as 63 or LXIII.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 63 in number.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 7

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Sixty-three percent of those men admitted to multiple rapes.
Stopping the Next Campus Kidnapper|Caitlin Dickson|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sixty-three televised games jam-packed into a scant two weeks.
It’s Time to Rip the Money Out of the NCAA|Robert Silverman|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sixty-three out of every 1,000 girls between 15 and 19 years old becomes a mother.
Gail Collins on Texas’s Abstinence Sex Education Problems|Gail Collins|June 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Sixty-three percent of Democrats supported the requirement.
Rick Santorum’s Lucky Culture War Over Contraception|Kirsten Powers|February 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Sixty-three percent of violent fathers have sons who go on to offend.
A Tinderbox Waiting for a Match|Gavin Knight|August 11, 2011|DAILY BEAST
"It's two hundred and sixty-three miles," said the Virginian.
The Virginian|Owen Wister
The total disposable force now under Harrison's command is given as sixty-three hundred.
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812|Alfred Thayer Mahan
The former of these caused sixty-three constables to be hanged at once.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3)|Thomas Percy
It was over three thousand feet above sea level and sixty-three miles without a water course or pool.
The Santa Fe Trail and Other Poems|Joseph R. Wilson
The fin-like feet are also very numerous (about sixty-three pairs).
The Life of Crustacea|William Thomas Calman