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- English Word Sewer Definition A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)
- English Word Sewer Definition A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
- English Word Sewer Definition 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.
- English Word Sewerage Definition The construction of a sewer or sewers.
- English Word Sewerage Definition The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
- English Word Sewerage Definition The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.
- English Word Sewin Definition Same as Sewen.
- English Word Sewing Definition of Sew
- English Word Sewing Definition The act or occupation of one who sews.
- English Word Sewing Definition That which is sewed with the needle.
- English Word Sewn Definition of Sew
- English Word Sewster Definition A seamstress.
- English Word Sex Definition 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.
- English Word Sex Definition One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
- English Word Sex Definition The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
- English Word Sex Definition One of the groups founded on this distinction.
- English Word Sex- Definition A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
- English Word Sexagenarian Definition A person who is sixty years old.
- English Word Sexagenary Definition Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
- English Word Sexagenary Definition Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
- English Word Sexagenary Definition A sexagenarian.
- English Word Sexagesima Definition The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
- English Word Sexagesimal Definition Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
- English Word Sexagesimal Definition A sexagesimal fraction.
- English Word Sexangle Definition A hexagon.
- English Word Sexangled Definition Alt. of Sexangular
- English Word Sexangular Definition Having six angles; hexagonal.
- English Word Sexangularly Definition Hexagonally.
- English Word Sexavalent Definition See Sexivalent.
- English Word Sexdigitism Definition The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.