Middle English Dictionary Entry

sixtī num.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
(a) Cardinal number as adj.: sixty; ~ mile large, sixty miles distant; ~ peni, a customary rent; -- ?error for sixte peni [s.v. sixt(e num.1.(c)]; ~ sithes; (b) cardinal number as noun: sixty men; also, a sixtyfold reward; -- also, used as adv.: sixty times, sixtyfold [2nd quot.]; bi ~, of birds: in a group of sixty; (c) the abstract number sixty; (d) in compound numbers; (e) as ordinal number: sixtieth; (f) in surname.