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fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

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…

A hexagon. [R.] Hutton.

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

Hexagonally. [R.]

See Sexivalent. [R.]

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.

Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.

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

A sexennial event.

Once in six years.

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

Having six syllables. Emerson.

A word of six syllables.

Hexavalent. [R.]