Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 58
Seventies (n. pl. ) of Seventy.
Seventy (n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
Seventy (n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
The Seventy, The translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.
Seventy (a.) Being ten more than sixty [syn: seventy, 70, lxx].
Seventy (n.) The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven [syn: seventy, 70, LXX].
Seventy-four (n.) (Naut.) A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
Seventy-four (a.) Being four more than seventy [syn: seventy-four, 74, lxxiv].
Seven-up (n.) The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge. [U. S.]
Seven-up (n.) A form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game [syn: seven-up, old sledge].
Severed (imp. &. p. p.) of Sever.
Severing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sever.
Sever (v. t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. -- Matt. xiii. 49.
Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
Our state can not be severed; we are one. -- Milton.
Sever (v. t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there. -- Ex. viii. 22.
Sever (v. t.) (Law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
Sever (v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate. -- Shak.
Sever (v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. -- Ex. ix. 4.
They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. -- Macaulay.
Sever (v.) Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" [syn: sever, break up].
Sever (v.) Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, sever, lop].
Severable (a.) Capable of being severed. -- Encyc. Dict.
Severable (a.) Capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody"; [syn: dissociable, separable, severable].
Several (a.) Separate; distinct; particular; single.
Each several ship a victory did gain. -- Dryden.
Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. -- Pope.
Several (a.) Diverse; different; various. -- Spenser.
Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished. -- Bacon.
Four several armies to the field are led. -- Dryden.
Several (a.) Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.
Several (adv.) By itself; severally. [Obs.]
Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Several (n.) Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. [Obs.]
There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. -- Shak.
Several (n.) Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.
Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them. -- Addison.
Several (n.) An inclosed or separate place; inclosure. [Obs.]
They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation. -- Hooker.
In several, in a state of separation. [R.] "Where pastures in several be." -- Tusser.
Several (a.) (Used with count nouns) Of an indefinite number more than 2 Or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident".
Several (a.) Considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)].
Several (a.) Distinct and individual; "three several times".
Several. () A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or covenant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint. Vide 3 Rawle, 306. See Contract; Joint Contract, Parties to action.
Severalities (n. pl. ) of Severality.
Severality (n.) Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Severalize (v. t.) To distinguish. [Obs.]
Severalize (v.) Distinguish or separate [syn: severalize, severalise].
Severalize (v.) Mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart].
Severally (adv.) Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. -- De Quincey.
Severally (adv.) Apart from others; "the clothes were hung severally" [syn: independently, severally].
Severally (adv.) Apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly" [syn: individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis].
Severally (adv.) In the order given; "the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively" [syn: respectively, severally].
Severalty (n.) A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
Forests which had never been owned in severalty. -- Bancroft.
Estate in severalty (Law), An estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. -- Blackstone.
Severalty (n.) The state of being several and distinct [syn: discreteness, distinctness, separateness, severalty].
Severalty (n.) Exclusive individual ownership.
Severalty, () Title to an estate. An estate in severalty is one which is held by the tenant in his own right only, without any other being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during the continuance of his estate. 2 Bl. Com. 179. Cruise, Dig. 479, 480.
Severalty (n.) Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership. Certain tribes of Indians are believed now to be sufficiently civilized to have in severalty the lands that they have hitherto held as tribal organizations, and could not sell to the Whites for waxen beads and potato whiskey.
Lo! the poor Indian whose unsuited mind Saw death before, hell and the grave behind; Whom thrifty settler ne'er besought to stay -- His small belongings their appointed prey; Whom Dispossession, with alluring wile, Persuaded elsewhere every little while!
His fire unquenched and his undying worm By "land in severalty" (charming term!) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast!
Severance (n.) The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. -- Milman.
Severance (n.) (Law) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate. -- Bouvier.
Severance (n.) A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out].
Severance (n.) The act of severing [syn: severance, severing].
Severance, () pleading. When an action is brought in the name of several plaintiffs, in which the plaintiffs must of necessity join, and one or more of the persons so named do not appear, or make default after appearance, the other may have judgment of severance, or, as it is technically called, judgment ad sequendum solum.
Severance, () But in personal actions, with the exception of those by executors, and of detinue for charters, there can be no summons and severance. Co. Lit. 139.
Severance, () After severance, the party severed can never be mentioned in the suit, nor derive any advantage from it.
Severance, () When there are several defendants, each of them may use such plea as, he may think proper for his own defence; and they may join in the same plea, or sever at their discretion; Co. Litt. 303, a except perhaps, in the case of dilatory pleas. Hob. 245, 250. But when the defendants have once united in the plea, they cannot afterwards sever at the rejoinder, or other later stage of the pleading. Vide, generally, Bro. Summ. and Sev.; 2 Rolle, 488; Archb. Civ. Pl. 59.
Severance, () estates. The act by which any one of the unities of a joint tenancy is effected, is so called; because the estate is no longer a joint tenancy, but is severed.
Severance, () A severance may be effected in various ways, namely: 1. By partition, which is either voluntary or compulsory. 2. By alienation of one of the joint tenants, which turns the estate into a tenancy in common. 3. By the purchase or descent of all the shares of the joint tenants, so that the whole estate becomes vested in one only. Com. Dig. Estates by Grant, K 5; 1 Binn. R. 175.
Severance, () In another and a less technical sense, severance is the separation of a part of a thing from another; for example, the separation of machinery from a mill, is a severance, and, in that case, the machinery which while annexed to the mill was real estate, becomes by the severance; personalty, unless such severance be merely temporary. 8 Wend. R. 587.
Severance, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 597
Housing Units (2000): 207
Land area (2000): 2.069528 sq. miles (5.360053 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.065733 sq. miles (0.170248 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.135261 sq. miles (5.530301 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69150
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.535208 N, 104.850761 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Severance
Severance, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 108
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.128303 sq. miles (0.332303 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.767644 N, 95.250303 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66087
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Headwords:
Severance, KS
Severance
Severe (a.) Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. -- Waller.
Severe (a.) Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment. "Custody severe." -- Milton.
Come! you are too severe a moraler. -- Shak.
Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more severe against thyself than against others. -- Jer. Taylor.
Severe (a.) Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc. "Restrained by reason and
severe principles." -- Jer. Taylor.
The Latin, a most severe and compendious language. -- Dryden.
Severe (a.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.
Severe (a.) Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.
Syn: Strict; grave; austere; stern; morose; rigid; exact; rigorous; hard; rough; harsh; censorious; tart; acrimonious; sarcastic; satirical; cutting; biting; keen; bitter; cruel. See Strict. -- Se*vere"ly, adv. -- Se*vere"ness, n.
Severe (a.) Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough" [syn: severe, terrible, wicked].
Severe (a.) Very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: hard, knockout, severe].
Severe (a.) Severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere, severe, stark, stern].
Severe (a.) Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing" [syn: severe, spartan].
Severe (a.) Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening].
Severe (a.) Very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage".
Severely (adv.) To a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" [syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously].
Severely (adv.) With sternness; in a severe manner; "`No,' she said sternly"; "peered severely over her glasses" [syn: sternly, severely].
Severely (adv.) Causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" [syn: hard, severely].
Severely (adv.) (Very seriously) (B2) 嚴重地 Very seriously.
// Their daughter was severely injured in a car accident.
// Severely disabled/ handicapped.
// Job opportunities are severely limited/ restricted at the moment.
Severely (adv.) (Not kindly) 嚴厲地 In a way that is not kind or does not show sympathy.
// I was severely reprimanded by my boss.
// "I will not allow that kind of behaviour in my class," the teacher said severely.
Severely (adv.) (Plainly) 簡潔地 Completely plainly.
// She dresses very severely.
Severities (n. pl. ) of Severity.
Severity (n.) 嚴格；嚴厲；嚴肅 [U]；猛烈；凜冽；嚴重 [U]； 樸素，簡潔 [U]；嚴謹；精確 [U]；嚴峻；艱難 [U]；苛嚴的待遇；嚴厲的懲罰；艱苦 [P1] The quality or state of being severe. Specifically:
Severity (n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." -- Milton.
Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.
Severity (n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
Severity (n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
Confining myself to the severity of truth. -- Dryden.
Severity (n.) Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness].
Severity (n.) Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness].
Severity (n.) Extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity, severeness].
Severity (n.) Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness].
Severy (n.) (Arch.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]
Severy, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 359
Housing Units (2000): 197
Land area (2000): 0.504977 sq. miles (1.307884 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.504977 sq. miles (1.307884 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64050
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.622487 N, 96.227635 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Severy
Sevocation (n.) A calling aside. [Obs.]
Sevres blue () A very light blue.
Sevres ware () Porcelain manufactured at Sevres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.
Sew (n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] -- Gower.
I will not tell of their strange sewes. -- Chaucer.
Sew (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Sewed (imp.) of Sew.
Sewed (p. p.) of Sew.
Sewn () of Sew.
Sewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sew.
Sew (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. -- Mark ii. 21.
Sew (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
Sew (v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
Sew (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
Sew (v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Sew (v.) Fasten by sewing; do needlework [syn: sew, run up, sew together, stitch].
Sew (v.) Create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor, tailor-make].
Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
Sewage (n.) Sewerage, 2.
Sewerage (n.) The construction of
a sewer or sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the
general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.].
Sewage (n.) Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage, sewerage].
Sewe (v. i.) To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer. [Obs.]
Sewer. () Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113.
Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. -- Halliwell.
Sewellel (n.) A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent ({Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.
Sewellel (n.) Bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent [syn: mountain beaver, sewellel, Aplodontia rufa].
Sewen (n.) (Zool.) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.
Sewer (n.) One who sews, or stitches.
Sewer (n.) (Zool.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer ({Phoxopteris nubeculana).
Sewer (n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
Sewer (n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.
Then the sewer Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran. -- Chapman.
Sewer (n.) A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]
Sewer (n.) Someone who sews; "a sewer of fine gowns".
Sewer (n.) Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" [syn: gutter, sewer, toilet].
Sewerage (n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]
Sewerage (n.) Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage, sewerage].
Sewerage (n.) A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca].
Sewin (n.) (Zool.) Same as Sewen.
Sewing (n.) The act or occupation of one who sews.
Sewing (n.) That which is sewed with the needle.
Sewing horse (Harness making), A clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed.
Sewing machine, A machine for sewing or stitching.
Sewing press, or Sewing table (Bookbinding), A fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to which the back edges of folded sheets are sewed to form a book.
Sewing (n.) Joining or attaching by stitches [syn: sewing, stitching].
Sewing (n.) Needlework on which you are working with needle and thread; "she put her sewing back in the basket" [syn: sewing, stitchery].
Sewster (n.) A seamstress. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Compare: Gender
Gender (n.) Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." -- Shak.
Gender (n.) Sex, male or female.
Note: The use of the term gender to refer to the sex of an animal, especially a person, was once common, then fell into disuse as the term became used primarily for the distinction of grammatical declension forms in inflected words. In the late 1900's, the term again became used to refer to the sex of people, as a euphemism for the term sex, especially in discussions of laws and policies on equal treatment of sexes.
Objections by prescriptivists that the term should be used only in a grammatical context ignored the earlier uses.
Gender (n.) (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. -- R. Morris.
Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.
Sex- () A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
Sex (n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
Sex (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
Sex (n.) (Bot.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
Sex (n.) (Bot.) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
The sex, the female sex; women, in general.
Sex. () The physical difference between male and female in animals.
Sex. () In the human species the male is called man, (q.v.) and the female, woman. (q.v.) Some human beings whose sexual organs are somewhat imperfect, have acquired the name of hermaphrodite. (q.v.)
Sex. () In the civil state the sex creates a difference among individuals.
Women cannot generally be elected or appointed to offices or service in public capacities. In this our law agrees with that of other nations. The civil law excluded women from all offices civil or public: Faemintae ab omnibus officiis civilibus vel publicis remotae sunt. Dig. 50, 17, 2. The principal reason of this exclusion is to encourage that modesty which is natural to the female sex, and which renders them unqualified to mix and contend with men; the pretended weakness of the sex is not probably the true reason. Poth. Des Personnes, tit. 5; Wood's Inst. 12; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 24; 1 Beck's Med. Juris. 94. Vide Gender; Male; Man; Women; Worthiest of blood.
Sexagenarian (n.) A person who is sixty years old.
Sexagenarian (a.) Being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian population is growing".
Sexagenarian (n.) Someone whose age is in the sixties.
Sexagenary (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
Sexagenary scale, or Sexagesimal scale (Math.), A scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.
Sexagenary (n.) Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
Sexagenary (n.) A sexagenarian. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sexagesima (n.) (Eccl.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
Sexagesimal (a.) Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
Sexagesimal fractions or Sexagesimal numbers (Arith. & Alg.), Those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, 1/60, 1/3600, 1/216000; -- called also astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
Sexagesimal arithmetic, or Sexagenary arithmetic, The method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
Sexagesimal scale (Math.), The sexagenary scale.
Sexagesimal (n.) A sexagesimal fraction.
Sexagesimal (a.) Of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths; "the sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees".
Sexangle (n.) A hexagon. [R.] -- Hutton. Sexangled
Sexangled (a.) Alt. of Sexangular.
Sexangular (a.) Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] -- Dryden.
Sexangularly (adv.) Hexagonally. [R.]
Sexavalent (a.) See Sexivalent. [R.]
Sexdigitism (n.) The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
Sexdigitist (n.) One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
Sexed (a.) Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.
Sexed (a.) Having sexual differentiation.
Sexed (a.) Characterized by sexuality; "highly sexed".
Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Sexennial (a.) Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
Sexennial (n.) A sexennial event.
Sexennially (adv.) Once in six years. Sexfid
Sexfid (a.) Alt. of Sexifid.
Sexifid (a.) (Bot.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.
Sexisyllabic (a.) Having six syllables. -- Emerson.
Sexisyllable (n.) A word of six syllables.
Sexivalent (a.) (hem.) Hexavalent. [R.]