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A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

Half savage.

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

A septuagenarian.

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

The state or condition of a serf.

Serfage; slavery; servitude. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Servitude. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Sewerage, 2.

The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

A person who is sixty years old.

ertaining 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…

A sackbut. [Obs.]

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. [East Indies]