Sextant: alternatives and connections

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have…

The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, d…

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United…

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, na…

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlight…

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a head…

The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plan…

The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowled…

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch wav…

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month…

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…