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Epact :: Epact (n.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year..

Saving :: Saving (n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy..

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Semiiannual :: Semiiannual (a.) Half-yearly.

Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners..

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

Analemma :: Analemma (n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe..

Tricennial :: Tricennial (a.) Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Incapable :: Incapable (a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government..

Saturnian :: Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year..

Infant :: Infant (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor..

Tercentenary :: Tercentenary (a.) Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years..

Sivan :: Sivan (n.) The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

Veadar :: Veadar (n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year..

Yearth :: Yearth (n.) The earth.

Tebeth :: Tebeth (n.) The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January..

Decennovary :: Decennovary (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.

Yearning :: Yearning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Year.

Seventieth :: Seventieth (a.) Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age..

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.

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