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Babyhood :: Babyhood (n.) The state or period of infancy.

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

Salina Period :: Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology..

Drachma :: Drachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents..

Gazette :: Gazette (n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc..

Thermetograph :: Thermetograph (n.) A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods..

Serial :: Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical..

Antique :: Antique (a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe..

Tractarian :: Tractarian (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called Tracts for the Times, issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite..

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

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..

Anatropous :: Anatropous (a.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous..

Aeon :: Aeon (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon..

Dead :: Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter..

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

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.

Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..

Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..

Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods..

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