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Uranus :: Uranus (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years..

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

Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..

Century :: Century (n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago..

Weekly :: Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly..

Millennium :: Millennium (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints..

Paleography :: Paleography (n.) The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics..

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

Potsdam Group :: Potsdam group () A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology..

Variety :: Variety (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species..

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..

Archaeolithic :: Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Incubative :: Incubative (a.) Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation..

Schoharie Grit :: Schoharie grit () The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology..

Round :: Round (n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures..

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

Trilobite :: Trilobite (n.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

After :: After (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life..

Period :: Period (v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] You may period upon this, that, etc..

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