Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEX-A-GEN-A'RI-AN, n. [infra.]

A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years. – Cowper.

SEX'A-GEN-A-RY, a. [Fr. sexagénaire; L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bisgenti.]

Designating the number sixty; as, a noun, a person sixty years of age; also, something composed of sixty.

SEX-A-GES'IM-A, n. [L. sexagesimus, sixtieth.]

The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being about the 60th day before Easter.

SEX-A-GES-IM-AL, a.

Sixtieth; pertaining to the number sixty. Sexagenary or sexagesimal arithmetic, is a method of computation by sixties as that which is used in dividing minutes into seconds. Sexagesimals, or sexagesimal fractions, are those whose denominators proceed in the ratio of sixty; as, 1/60, 1/3600, 1/21600. The denominator is sixty, or its multiple. These fractions are called also astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations. Encyc.

SEX-AN'GLED, or SEX-AN'GU-LAR, a. [L. sex, six, and angulus, angle.]

Having six angles; hexagonal. Dryden.

SEX-AN'GU-LAR-LY, adv.

With six angles; hexagonally.

SEX-DEC'IM-AL, a. [L. sex, six, and decem, ten.]

In crystalography, when a prism or the middle part of a crystal has six faces and two summits, and taken together, ten faces, or the reverse.

SEX-DU-O-DEC'IM-AL, a. [L. sex, six, and duodecim, twelve.]

In crystalography, designating a crystal when the prism or each middle part has six faces and two summits, having together twelve faces.

SEX-EN'NI-AL, a. [L. sex, six, and annus, year.]

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.

SEX-EN'NI-AL-LY, adv.

Once in six years.

SEX'FID, a. [L. sex, six, and findo, to divide.]

In botany, six-cleft; as, a sex fid calyx or nectary. Martyn.

SEX-IL'LION, n.

The product of a million involved to the sixth power.

SEX'LESS, a.

Having no sex. – Shelly.

SEX-LOC'U-LAR, a. [L. sex, six, and loculus, a cell.]

In botany, six-celled; having six cells for seeds; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

SEX'TAIN, n. [L. sextans, a sixth, from sex, six.]

A stanza of six lines.

SEX'TANT, n. [L. sextans, a sixth. The Romans divided the as into 12 ounces; a sixth, or two ounces, was the sextans.]

1. In mathematics, the sixth part of a circle. Hence,
2. An instrument formed like a quadrant, excepting that its limb comprehends only 60 degrees, or the sixth part of a circle. – Encyc.
3. In astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, which, according to the British catalogue, contains 41 stars. Encyc.

SEX'TA-RY, n. [L. sextarius.]

A measure of a pint and a half.

SEX'TA-RY, or SEX'TRY, n.

The same as Sacristan. [Not used.] Dict.

SEX'TILE, n. [L. sextilis, from sex, six.]

Denoting the aspect or position of two planets, when distant from each other 60 degrees or two signs. This position is marked thus *.

SEX'TON, n. [contracted from sacristan, – which see.]

An under officer of the church, whose business is to take care of the vessels, vestments, &c. belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman and perform other duties pertaining to the church, to dig graves, &c. – Encyc.

SEX'TON-SHIP, n.

The office of a sexton. – Swift.

SEX'TU-PLE, a. [Low L. sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]

1. Sixfold; six times as much. – Brown.
2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal notes, three for each time. – Busby. Encyc.

SEX'U-AL, a. [from sex.]

1. Pertaining to sex or the sexes; distinguishing the sex; denoting what is peculiar to the distinction and office of male and female; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection or commerce.
2. Sexual method, in botany, the method which is founded on the distinction of sexes in plants, as male and female, each sex being furnished with appropriate organs or parts; the male producing a pollen or dust which fecundates the stigma of the pistil or female organ, and is necessary to render it prolific. It is found that most plants are hermaphrodite, the male and female organs being contained in the same flower. This doctrine was taught to a certain extent, by Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny among the ancients, but has been more fully illustrated by Cæsalpinus, Grew, Camerarius, Linnæus and many others among the moderns. Milne. Encyc.

SEX'U-AL-IST, n.

One who believes and maintains the doctrine of sexes in plants; or one who classifies plants by the differences of the sexes and parts of fructification. Milne. – Encyc.

SEX'U-AL'I-TY, n.

The state of being distinguished by sex.