a. [ Pref. a- not + sexual. ] 1. (Biol.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. not involving sexual activity or sexual attraction; as, an asexual friendship. [ PJC ]

n. having no evident sex or sex organs.
Syn. -- sexlessness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Asexual + -ize + -ation. ] The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. In an asexual manner; without sexual agency. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + sexus sex: cf. F. bissexe. ] Bisexual. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + sexual. ] (Biol.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bisexual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bissextilis annus, fr. bissextus (bis + sextus sixth, fr. sex six) the sixth of the calends of March, or twenty-fourth day of February, which was reckoned twice every fourth year, by the intercalation of a day. ] Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to leap year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop., in sixteenth; fr. L. decimus tenth + sextus sixth. ] A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16°. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to make infertile, especially by removing or incapacitating the sexual organs; -- used of both males and females.
Syn. -- sterilize, unsex, desexualize, fix. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. to direct one's libidinous urges into another direction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as desex.
Syn. -- sterilize, desex, unsex, fix, make infertile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- + sexual. ] (Biol.) Sexless; asexual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having unusually intense sexual desire or appeal.
Syn. -- oversexed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An erroneous explanation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong explication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong exposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To expound erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Having excessive sexual desire or appeal.
Syn. -- highly-sexed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Astrol.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sexus: cf. F. sexe. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. (b) One of the groups founded on this distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sex, the female sex; women, in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. sex six. See Six. ] A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sexagenary. ] A person who is sixty years old. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexagénaire. See Six. ] Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sexagenarian. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fem. of sexagesimus sixtieth, fr. sexaginta sixty. ] (Eccl.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sexagésimal. ] Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sexagesimal fraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sexangulus sexangular; sex six + angulus angle: cf. F. sexangle. Cf. Hexangular. ] (Geom.) A hexagon. [ R. ] Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Cf. F. sexangulaire. ] Having six angles; hexagonal. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Hexagonally. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Sexivalent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sex- + digit. ] The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sexennium a period of six years, sexennis of six years; sex six + annus a year. See Six, and Annual. ] Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n. A sexennial event. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Once in six years. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Sex- + root of L. findere to split: cf. F. sexfide. ] (Bot.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + syllabic. ] Having six syllables. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sex- + syllable. ] A word of six syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + L. valens, p. pr. See Valence. ] (hem.) Hexavalent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no sex. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + locular: cf. F. sexloculaire. ] (Bot.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to sex. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live. Queen Elizabeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + radiate. ] (Zool.) Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule. [ 1913 Webster ]