Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of sext is as below...

Bissextile :: Bissextile (a.) Pertaining to leap year.

Sexton :: Sexton (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc..

Sextetto :: Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.

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

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

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) The constellation Sextans.

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

Sextonship :: Sextonship (n.) The office of a sexton.

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Sextain :: Sextain (n.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

Necrophore :: Necrophore (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle..

Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16�..

Sextodecimos :: Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecim.

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..

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..

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

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

Decimosexto :: Decimosexto (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size..

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..

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

Random Fonts

Most Popular