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Metrorrhagia :: Metrorrhagia (n.) Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period..

Preadamitic :: Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods..

Tricentenary :: Tricentenary (n.) A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary..

Rent :: Rent (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc..

Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure..

Saros :: Saros (n.) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years..

Close :: Close (v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock..

Jurassic :: Jurassic (n.) The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

Definite :: Definite (a.) Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval..

Night :: Night (n.) The period after the close of life; death.

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events..

Era :: Era (n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian)..

Permian :: Permian (n.) The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

Circuit :: Circuit (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun..

Hypnocyst :: Hypnocyst (n.) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts..

Annals :: Annals (n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as Annals of Science..

Chiliad :: Chiliad (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years..

Advent :: Advent (n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

Monsoon :: Monsoon (n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December..

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