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Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..

Hexa :: Hexa () A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic..

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..

Station :: Station (n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion..

Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.

Elul :: Elul (n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September..

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

Propodite :: Propodite (n.) The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint..

Sigillaria :: Sigillaria (n. pl.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia..

Majusculae :: Majusculae (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier..

Sixthly :: Sixthly (adv.) In the sixth place.

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

Degree :: Degree (n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree..

Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..

Sixth :: Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Seventh :: Seventh (a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

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

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..

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