Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. A sexennial event.

Once in six years.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

Having six syllables.

A word of six syllables.

Hexavalent.

Having no sex.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

Pertaining to sex.

Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.

The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary. The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.

The sixth part of a circle.

A sacristy.

See Sestet.

A sacristan.

Of the sixth degree or order. A quantic of the sixth degree.

The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: 8star/.

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.

A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

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/.

A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

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.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Sextonship.

The office of a sexton.

See Sacristy.

Six times as much; sixfold.

Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.

One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

To attribute sex to.

In a sexual manner or relation.

imp. pl. p. p. of See.

imp. sing. 2d pers. pl. of See.

p. p. of Senge, to singe.

A gridle. See 1st Seint.

Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

To scratch; to rub.

Shabby.

In a shabby manner.

The quality or state of being sghabby.

A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

to live together in a sexual relationship, without being legally married.

A hound.

To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.

A sort of shackle.

Shaky; rickety.

Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa), and the twaite shad (Alosa finta formerly Clupea finta), are less important species.

See Shadbird (a)

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. The common European sandpiper.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.

Full of shade; shady.

Being without shade; not shaded.

One who, or that which, shades.

In a shady manner.

Quality or state of being shady.

Act or process of making a shade.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

The quality or state of being shadowy.

Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.

Shadowy; vague.

Having no shadow.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

To hobble or limp; to shuffle.

A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer.

A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafe/.

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.

Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

A measure of about six inches.

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Having shaggy hair.

The unkempt and ragged part of the community.

A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

A sackbut.

Shaggy; rough.

The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Rough with long hair or wool.

A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.

A former title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia and Iran.

A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.

See Sheik.

To walk sidewise.

The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.

A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.

Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.

A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

A female Shaker.

Doctrines of the Shakers.

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.

Quality of being shaky.

Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc.

A kind of military cap or headdress.

An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.

Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.

To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

To owe; to be under obligation for.

See Challis.

An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.

A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.

A boat.

A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

To become shallow, as water.

Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.