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Definition of year

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Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

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Isobar :: Isobar (n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line..

Magna Charta :: Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I..

Pricket :: Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

Perennial :: Perennial (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not..

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Annual :: Annual (a.) Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets..

Mellow :: Mellow (superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

Termer :: Termer (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

Underlease :: Underlease (n.) A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease..

Dear :: Dear (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year..

Quinquennial :: Quinquennial (a.) Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event..

Sexennial :: Sexennial (a.) Lasting six years, or happening once in six years..

Reprise :: Reprise (n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like..

Chiliast :: Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

November :: November (n.) The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days..

Triennial :: Triennial (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in three years.

Annual :: Annual (a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..

Rosicrucian :: Rosicrucian (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years..

Annals :: Annals (n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened..