Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..
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�..
Decimosexto :: Decimosexto (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size..
Disexercise :: Disexercise (v. t.) To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained.
Nonsexual :: Nonsexual (a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Semisextile :: Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees..
Sex :: Sex (n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
Sex :: Sex (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..
Sex :: Sex (n.) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
Sex- :: Sex- () A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial..
Sexagenarian :: Sexagenarian (n.) A person who is sixty years old.
Sexagenary :: Sexagenary (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old..
Sexagenary :: Sexagenary (n.) Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.