Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for
holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a
machine for sewing or stitching. -- Sewing press, or Sewing table
(Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the
cords to which the back edges of folded sheets are sewed to form a
book.
Sew"ster (?), n. A seamstress. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Sex- (?). [L. sex six. See Six.] A combining form meaning six; as,
sexdigitism; sexennial.
Sex, n. [L. sexus: cf. F. sexe.] 1. 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.
2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction
of male and female.
3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being
fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
(b) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
The sex, the female sex; women, in general.
Sex`a*ge*na"ri*an (?), n. [See Sexagenary.] A person who is sixty years
old.
Sex*ag"e*na*ry (?), a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin
to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexagénaire. See Six.] Pertaining to,
or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years
old.
Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or
Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is
sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.
Sex*ag"e*na*ry, n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.