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Waller. (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.] The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. Knolles. -- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. -- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to…

One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week. Seven sciences. See the Note under Science, n., 4. -- Seven stars (Astron.), the Pleiades. -- Seven wonders of the world. See under Wonders. -- Seven-year apple (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub (Genipa clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies; also, its ed…

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.

Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2.

Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.

A person who is sixty years old.

Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimal fractions or numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations. -- Sexagesimal, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of com…

Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.

The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n.

Once in six years.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

Having six syllables. Emerson.