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Sextoness :: Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

February :: February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days..

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the little hours, viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline..

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

Sestet :: Sestet (n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.

Sexto :: Sexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

Bissextile :: Bissextile (a.) Pertaining to leap year.

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

Sextile :: Sextile (n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /..

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) A sacristy.

Sexton :: Sexton (n.) 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..

Leap Year :: Leap year () Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile..

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..

#NAME? :: -mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc..

Sextolet :: Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

Sextodecimos :: Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecim.

Sextetto :: Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.

Altimeter :: Altimeter (n.) An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc..

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

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