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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Ecclesiastical The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
  2. n. Ecclesiastical The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In the Roman Catholic and Greek churches, in religious houses, and as a devotional office in the Anglican Church, the office of the sixth hour, originally and properly said at midday. See canonical hours, under canonical.
  2. n. In music:
  3. n. The interval of a sixth.
  4. n. In organ-building, a mixture-stop of two ranks separated by a sixth—that is, consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.
  2. n. A sexual text message.
  3. n. Any electronic message with sexual context.
  4. v. To send a sext message.
  5. v. To send (someone) a (sext message).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
  2. n. The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon

Etymologies

  1. Middle English sexte, from Late Latin sexta, from Latin sexta (hōra), sixth (hour), feminine of sextus, sixth; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots.

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