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Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.

ration; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week. When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. Swift.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.

es between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

many, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day. -- Scarlet fish (Zoöl.), the telescope fish; -- so called from its red color. See under Telescope. -- Scarlet ibis (Zoöl.) See under Ibis. -- Scarlet maple (Bot.), the red maple. See Maple. -- Scarlet mit…

An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirthy- two to sixty stadia.

e-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vesels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.

quare mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.

A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.

Of six; belonging to six; containing six. Dr. H. More.

Having six eyes. [R.] Derham.

A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.

s of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.

A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor. [Written also sestett, sestette.]