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Young :: Young (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree..

Laying :: Laying (n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

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..

Quinine :: Quinine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc..

Late :: Late (v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life..

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..

Infancy :: Infancy (n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

Chemung Period :: Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology..

Rut :: Rut (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc..

Early :: Early (adv.) Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc..

Oligocene :: Oligocene (n.) The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology.

Jura :: Jura (n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full..

Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..

Month :: Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..

Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence..

Periodontal :: Periodontal (a.) Surrounding the teeth.

Semimonthly :: Semimonthly (n.) Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical..

Always :: Always (adv.) Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally..

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