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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.
n.
The constellation Sextans.
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An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
n.
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
n.
The office of a sexton.
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A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
n.
Sextonship.
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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 16ยก.
n.
See Sacristy.
pl.
of Sexto
a.
Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.
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A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
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A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.
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Alt. of Sextetto
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A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale.
a.
Six times as much; sixfold.
n.
A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
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of Sextary
pl.
of 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.
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