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Sextillion :: Sextillion (n.) 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..

Necrophore :: Necrophore (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle..

Intercalary :: Intercalary (a.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n..

Sextet :: Sextet (n.) Alt. of Sextett.

Decimosexto :: Decimosexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16¡..

Sacristan :: Sacristan (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton..

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: /..

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant..

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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

Semisextile :: Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees..

Macrometer :: Macrometer (n.) An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.

Sextos :: Sextos (pl. ) of Sext.

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) A sacristy.

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

Tolsester :: Tolsester (n.) A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale..

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

Sextic :: Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.

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