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Sixteenmo :: Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.

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

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

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) A sacristy.

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.

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: /..

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

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..

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

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..

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

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Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..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

Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume..

Sextans :: Sextans (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as..

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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