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Cycle :: Cycle (n.) An age; a long period of time.

Utica :: Utica (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale..

Week :: Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next..

Rut :: Rut (n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists..

Menses :: Menses (n. pl.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs..

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.

Time :: Time (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times..

Session :: Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term..

Medina Epoch :: Medina epoch () A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology..

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

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

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Interstition :: Interstition (n.) An intervening period of time; interval.

Campaign :: Campaign (n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

Quarterly :: Quarterly (n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year..

Hebdomad :: Hebdomad (n.) A week; a period of seven days.

Lune :: Lune (n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Winter :: Winter (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like..

Paper :: Paper (n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper..

Summered :: Summer (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

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