Sexless (a.) Having no sex.
Sexlocular (a.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.
Sexly (a.) Pertaining to sex.
Sexradiate (a.) Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.
Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
Sextain (n.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.
Sextans (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.
Sextans (n.) A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.
Sextant (n.) The sixth part of a circle.
Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant.
Sextant (n.) The constellation Sextans.
Sextaries (pl. ) of Sextary
Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
Sextary (n.) A sacristy.
Sextet (n.) Alt. of Sextetto
Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.
Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.
Sextic (a.) Of the sixth degree or order.
Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.
Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
Sextile (n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Sextillion (n.) 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.
Sextos (pl. ) of Sexto
Sexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
Sextodecimo (a.) 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.
Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecimo
Sextodecimo (n.) 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¡.
Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
Sexton (n.) 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.
Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
Sextonry (n.) Sextonship.
Sextonship (n.) The office of a sexton.
Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.
Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.
Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.
Sexual (a.) 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.
Sexualist (n.) One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.
Sexuality (n.) The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.
Sexualize (v. t.) To attribute sex to.
Sexually (adv.) In a sexual manner or relation.
Sey () Alt. of Seyh
Seyh () imp. sing. & 2d pers. pl. of See.
Seye () Alt. of Seyen
Seyen () imp. pl. & p. p. of See.
Seynd () p. p. of Senge, to singe.
Seynt (n.) A gridle. See 1st Seint.
Sforzando (a.) Alt. of Sforzato
Sforzato (a.) 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 /.
Sfumato (a.) Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.
Sgraffito (a.) 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.
Shab (n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab.
Shabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Shab
Shabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shab
Shab (v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
Shab (v. t.) To scratch; to rub.
Shabbed (a.) Shabby.
Shabbily (adv.) In a shabby manner.
Shabbiness (n.) The quality or state of being sghabby.
Shabble (n.) Alt. of Shabble
Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Shabby (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
Shabby (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
Shabby (n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.
Shabrack (n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.
Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
Shack (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
Shack (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
Shack (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Shackatory (n.) A hound.
Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackle
Shackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shackle
Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.
Shackly (a.) Shaky; rickety.
Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (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 (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
Shadbird (n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.
Shadbird (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Shadd (n.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
Shadde () obs. imp. of Shed.
Shaddock (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Shade (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Shade (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
Shade (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
Shade (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
Shade (n.) Shadow.
Shade (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
Shade (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.
Shade (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.