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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..

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

Age :: Age (n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

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

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

Once :: Once (adv.) At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.

Maturity :: Maturity (n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run..

Puberty :: Puberty (n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

Lias :: Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature..

Age :: Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.

Undecennial :: Undecennial (a.) Occurring or observed every eleventh year; belonging to, or continuing, a period of eleven years; undecennary; as, an undecennial festival..

Prehistoric :: Prehistoric (a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man..

Inoceramus :: Inoceramus (n.) An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period..

Latterly :: Latterly (adv.) Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period..

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles..

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)..

Subcarbureted :: Subcarboniferous (n.) The Subcarboniferous period or formation.

Assize :: Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.

Tertiary :: Tertiary (n.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation..

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