Sexagesima Sunday
the second Sunday before Lent, the one immediately before Shrove Tuesday, so called because it falls about 60 days before Easter.
SEXTANS ("the Sextant"), one of 14 8 68 6 e 5 7 3 13 12 e 2 11 8 1, Mirror. 2. Telescope. 3. Handle. 4. Shade Glasses. 5. Horizon Glasses. 8 SEXTANT 6. Adjusting Screw. 7. Black Shade Glasses. 8. Arc. 9. Index Tangent Screw. 10. Sliding Limb. to the ridged nature of the seam it makes, and to the considerable waste of thread the peculiar nature of the stitch involves.
Overhead Machines. In overhead stitching two edges are sewed together by the thread passing over and binding in their outer extremities, a style of sewing generally seen in gloves and invariably used for sacks. In order to effect the sewing of sacks with this stitch by machinery, many attempts have been made, and some of them have attained a degree of practical success. In Laing's overhead machine, invented and manufactured in Dundee, a helical needle is employed, which in its motion of rotation passes 6 10 11. Reading Glass. 12. Vernier Shade. 13. Vernier. 14. Mirror Adjusting Screw. heavens by Hevelius in his "Prodromus Astronomiæ" (Forerunner of Astronomy), in 1690, of which eight_have survived to the present day. It is surrounded by Leo, Crater, and Hydra. Not having been known as a constellation in Bayer's time, it has gone without Greek letters attached to its stars till recently, when Gould assigned them to five of its brightest stars. It is a very inconspicuous constellation, the brightest star being only of the 4.9 magnitude.