Webster's Dictionary 1828

1864

SEWED

SEW'ED, participle passive United by stitches.

1865

SEWEL

SEW'EL, noun Among huntsmen, something hung up to prevent deer entering a place.

1866

SEWER

SEW'ER, noun [Latin sicco.] A drain or passage to cnvey off waterunder ground; a subterraneous canal, particularly in cities; corruptly pronounced Shore or soer.SEW'ER, noun An ...

1867

SEWING

SEW'ING, participle present tense Joining with the needle or with stitches.

1868

SEWSTER

SEW'STER, noun A woman that sews or spins. Obs.

1869

SEX

SEX, noun [L. sexus; from L. seco, to divide.]1. The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. The male sex is usua...

1870

SEXAGENARIAN

SEXAGENA'RIAN, noun [infra.] A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years.

1871

SEXAGENARY

SEX'AGENARY, adjective [L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bis-genti.] Designating the number sixty; as a noun, a person sixty years of ...

1872

SEXAGESIMA

SEXAGES'IMA, noun [L. sexagesimus, sextieth.] The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being the 60th day before Easter.

1873

SEXAGESIMAL

SEXAGES'IMAL, adjective Sixtieth; pertaining to the number sexty. Sexagenary or sexgesimal arithmetic, is a method of comutation by sexties, as that which is used in dividing mi...

1874

SEXANGLED

SEXAN'GLED, adjective [L. sex, six, and angulus, angle.] Having six angles; hexagonal.

1875

SEXANGULAR

SEXAN'GULAR,

1876

SEXDECIMAL

SEXDEC'IMAL, adjective [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 face...

1877

SEXENNIAL

SEXEN'NIAL, adjective [L. sex, six, and annus, year.] Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.

1878

SEXFID

SEX'FID, adjective [L. sex, six, and findo, to divide.] In botany, six-cleft; as a sexfid calyx or nectary.

1879

SEXINNIALLY

SEXIN'NIALLY, adverb Once in six years.

1880

SEXLOCULAR

SEXLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin sex, six, and loculus, cell.] In botany, six-celled; having six cells for seeds; as a sexlocular pericarp.

1881

SEXTAIN

SEX'TAIN, noun [Latin sextans, a sixth, from sex, six.] A stanza of six lines.

1882

SEXTANT

SEX'TANT, noun [Latin 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...

1883

SEXTARY

SEX'TARY, noun [L. sextarius.] A measure of a pint and a half.SEX'TARY, noun The same as sacristan. [Not used.]

1884

SEXTILE

SEX'TILE, noun [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*.

1885

SEXTON

SEX'TON, noun [contracted from sacristan, which see.] An under officer of the church, whose buiness is to take care of the vessels, vestments, etc. belonging to the church, to a...

1886

SEXTONSHIP

SEX'TONSHIP, noun The office of a sexton.

1887

SEXTRY

SEX'TRY,

1888

SEXTUPLE

SEX'TUPLE, adjective [Low Latin sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]1. Sixfold; six times as much.2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a ...

1889

SEXUAL

SEX'UAL, adjective [from sex.]1. Pertaining to sex or the sexes; distinguishing the sex; denoting what is particular to the distinction and office of male and female; as sexual ...

1890

SEXUALIST

SEX'UALIST, noun One who believes and maintains the doctrine of sexes in plants; or onw who classifies the differences of the sexes and parts of fructification.