Sex"ly (?), a. Pertaining to sex. [R.]

Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly

weakness, I were not worthy to live.

Queen Elizabeth.

Sex*ra"di*ate (?), a. [Sex- + radiate.] (Zoöl.) Having six rays; --

said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.

Sext (?), n. [L. sexta, fem. of sextus sixtt, fr. sex six: cf. F.

sexte.] (R.C.Ch.) (a) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a

part of the Breviary. (b) The sixth book of the decretals, added by

Pope Boniface VIII.

Sex"tain, n. [L. sextus sixth, fr. sex six: cf. It. sestina.] (Pros.) A

stanza of six lines; a sestine.

||Sex"tans (?), n. [L. See Sextant.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman coin, the

||sixth part of an as.

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