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Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Sextic :: Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.

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: /..

February :: February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days..

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

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..

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

Sacristan :: Sacristan (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton..

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

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

Sextaries :: Sextaries (pl. ) of Sextar.

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

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

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

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

Subsided :: Subsextuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion..

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

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

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..

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