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An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

d 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 computing by the sexagenary…

An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc. Sexton beetle (Zoöl.), a burying beetle.…

As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command…

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.

Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt, and is surrendered by the shipper for the bills of lading.

One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

hort intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope.

Mere; not other than; being only. A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin. Shak.