See Also: sext(medicine)
sext(dictionary)

achiote (iou) and sext (iou)


achiote (iou)



achiote noun. M17.
[Spanish from Nahuatl achiotl.]
= ANNATTO.

sext (iou)



sext noun. In sense 2 also Sext. LME.
[In sense 1 from Latin sexta (sc. hora hour) fem. of sextus sixth (cf. PRIME noun1). In sense 2 from Latin sextus (sc. liber book). In sense 3 from Latin sexta (sc. pars part).]
Ecclesiastical. The fourth of the daytime canonical hours of prayer, appointed orig. for the sixth hour of the day (about noon); the office appointed for this hour. LME.
Ecclesiastical. The sixth book added to the decretals by Pope Boniface VIII. M17.
Music.
a. An interval of a sixth. L19.
b. An organ-stop of two ranks of pipes having an interval of a sixth between them. L19.