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The office of a sexton. Swift.

See Sacristy. [Obs.]

Six times as much; sixfold.

Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexu…

One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.

To attribute sex to.

In a sexual manner or relation.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.

Bisexual. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

Bisexual.

m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.

Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.

To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.

Sexless; asexual.

An erroneous explanation.

Wrong explication.