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

Quadrennium :: Quadrennium (n.) A space or period of four years.

Millennial :: Millennial (a.) Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness..

Late :: Late (a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night..

Period :: Period (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic..

Oligocene :: Oligocene (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods..

Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use..

Limbat :: Limbat (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later..

Champlain Period :: Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..

Periodicalness :: Periodicalness (n.) Periodicity.

Secular :: Secular (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe..

Coeval :: Coeval (n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with..

Spell :: Spell (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks..

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..

Mars :: Mars (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light..

Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..

Alabama Period :: Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic..

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..

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..

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