sex1 (seks)

t. [ The still more barbarous phrase of "collecting a specimen" and then of " sexing " it. A. Newton , Zoologist, 3d ser., XII. 101. sex2, a. and n. An obsolete or dialectal form of six. [Prop.*sex sex a decimal (sek-sa-desi-mal), (sek-sa-des'i-mal), a. a. [Pro decimal, sexagecuple (sek-saj'e-ku-pl), a. [Irreg. and barbarous; agecuple ratio. Pop. Encyc. Pop. Encyc. ( Imp. Dict.) sex a genal (sek-saj'e-nal), 1), a. [L. sexageni, sixty each (see sexagenary ), + -al.] Same as IMG:content-0753.png:[blocks in formation] II. n. A person sixty years of age, or between sixty and seventy. sexagenary (sek-saj'e-nā-ri), a . and n. [OF. sex a gena ire , F. sexagénaire = Sp. Pg. sexagena rio = It. se a gena rio , sexagenarius , belonging to sixty, sexageni , sixty each, distributive of sexaginta , sixty, = E. sixty : see sixty .] I. a. Pertaining to the number sixty; composed of or proceeding by sixties; specifically, sixty years old; sexagenarian. Also sex a genal . I count it strange, and hard to understand, That nearly all young poets should write old; That Pope was sexagenary at sixteen, And beardle Byron academical. Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, i. Sexagenary arithmetic. Same as sexagesimal arithme tic (which see, under sexagesimal ). - Sexagenary cycle. See cyclel.- Sexagenary table, a table of proportional parts for units and sixtieths. II. n.; pl. sexagenaries (-riz). 1. A sexagenarian. The lad can sometimes be as lowff as a sexagenary like myself. Scott , Waverley, xliii. 2. A thing composed of sixty parts or containing sixty. sex a gene (sek'sa-jēn), n. [ IMG:content-0754.jpg:[blocks in formation] Astronomers, for speed and more commodious calculasix years, or happening once in six years. Imp. tion, have devised a peculiar manner of ordering numbers Dict . about their circular motions, by sex a genes and sex age sms, sexennially (sek-sen'i-al-i), adv. Once in six by signs, degrees, minutes, etc. Dee, Preface to Euclid (1570). years.