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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.

The office of a sexton. Swift.

See Sacristy. [Obs.]

Six times as much; sixfold.

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.