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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.

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..

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

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

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

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) The sixth part of a circle.

Radius :: Radius (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

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

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¡..

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

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

Decimosexto :: Decimosexto (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size..

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

Sixteenmo :: Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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..

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

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