{ Sex*tet" (?), Sex*tet"to (?), } n. (Mus.) See Sestet.
Sex"teyn (?), n. A sacristan. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sex"tic (?), a. [L. sextus sixth.] (Math.) Of the sixth degree or
order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the sixth degree.
Sex"tile (?), a. [F. sextil, fr. L. sextus the sixth, from sex six. See
Six.] (Astrol.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a
distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.
Sex"tile, n. [Cf. F. aspect sextil.] (Astrol.) The aspect or position
of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two
signs. This position is marked thus: &8star;. Hutton.
Sex*til"lion (?), n. [Formed (in imitation of million) fr. L. sextus
sixth, sex six: cf. F. sextilion.] According to the method of
numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number
expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the
English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number
expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.
Sex"to (?), n.; pl. Sextos (#). [L. sextus sixth.] A book consisting of
sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
Sex`to*dec"i*mo (?), a. [L. sextus- decimus the sixteenth; sextus the
sixth (fr. sex six) + decimus the tenth, from decem ten. See - mo.]
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.
Sex`to*dec"imo, n.; pl. Sextodecimos (&?;). 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°.
Sex"to*let (?), n. (Mus.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes
played in the time of four.
Sex"ton (?), n. [OE. sextein, contr. fr. sacristan.] 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.
Sexton beetle (Zoöl.), a burying beetle.
Sex"ton*ess, n. A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
Sex"ton*ry (?), n. Sextonship. [Obs.] Ld. Bernes.
Sex"ton*ship, n. The office of a sexton. Swift.