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Sextary :: Sextary (n.) A sacristy.

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

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

Sextic :: Sextic (a.) Of the sixth degree or order.

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

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

Sextodecimos :: Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecim.

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

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure..

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..

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

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..

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..

Sestine :: Sestine (n.) See Sextain.

Hemina :: Hemina (n.) A measure of half a sextary.

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

Sextaries :: Sextaries (pl. ) of Sextar.

Observation :: Observation (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc..

Octant :: Octant (n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant..

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