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Having no sex.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

Pertaining to sex. [R.] Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live. Queen Elizabeth.

Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.

The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.

A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.

The constellation Sextans. Box sextant, a small sextant inclosed in a cylindrical case to make it more portable.

An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

See Sestet.

A sacristan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of the sixth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.)

Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.

According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.…

A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

et of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.

A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc. Sexton beetle (Zoöl.), a burying beetle.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Sextonship. [Obs.] Ld. Bernes.