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See poison - oak. year-bird (yer bėrd), n. have been so called from a notion that it annually added a wrinkle to the plicated skin at the base of the beak. And threescore year would make the world away. Then you know a boy is an a , Then you know the worth of a la , Once you have come to forty year. Thackeray, Age of Wisdom. Anomalistic year. See anomalistic. - Astral year. Same as sidereal year. - Astronomical year. See def. 1. A year and a day, the lapse of a year with a day added to it: in law constituting a period which in some cases determines a right or liability: as, where one is fatally wounded with murderous intent, the killing is murder if death ensues within a year and a day. See dayl. I suere to you be the oth that I made to you when ye made me knyght that I shall sec he hym a yere and a day, but with-ynne that space I may knowe trewe tidinges. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 682. A year's mind. See mind1.- Bird of the year. See bird1.- Bi extile year, leap-year. See bi extile, Canicular year. See canicular. - Civil year, the year in use in the ordinary affairs of life; the year recognized by the law; a year according to the calendar. It is either solar, like the civil year of Christian countries, or lunar, like the Mohammedan year, or lunisolar, like the He brew year.-Climacteric years. See climacteric. -Common year, a year of 365 days, as distinguished from a leap-year.- Cynic year. Same as Sothic year. - Ecclesiastical year, the year as arranged in the ecclesiastical calendar. For details of it, see Sunday. - Eighty years' war. See warl.- Embolismic year, a year of thirteen months, occurring in a lunisolar calendar, like that of the Jews. - Emergent year. See emergent. Enneatical yearst. See enneatic.- Estate for years. See estate. Fiscal year. See fiscal. - Four years' limitation law. See limitation. - Greg or i an year. See Greg or i an.- Hebrew year, a lunisolar year, composed of 12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days. In every cycle of nineteen years, the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th are embolismic years and have 13 months, while the rest are ordinary years and have 12 months. Both the embolismic and the ordinary years are further distinguished as regular, defective, and abundant.-Hundred years' war. See war 1.- In years, advanced in age. I am honest in my Inclinations, And would not, wer't not to avoid Offence, make a Lady a little in Years believe I think her young. Etherege, Man of Mode, ii. 2. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. The lady, who was a little in years , having parted with her fortune to her dearest life, he left her. Goldsmith , Register of Scotch Marriages. Men in Years more calmly Wrongs resent. Julian year. (a) A period of 3651 days. (b) Incorrectly, a year of the Julian calendar. - Leap year. See leap year. Legal year, the year by which dates were reck oned, which until 1752 began March 25th: hence it was usual between January 1st and March 25th to date the year both ways, as February 19th, 1745-6 (that is, 1746 асcording to present reckoning). - Lunar year, a period consisting of 12 lunar months. The lunar astronomical year consists of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. The common lunar year consists IMG:content-2677.png:[blocks in formation] 3. One of a number of books containing chronological reports of early cases adjudged or argued in the courts of England. The series first printed and long known as The Year Books contains cases from the beginning of the reign of Edward II. down to the end of Edward III., and from the beginning of Henry IV. down to near the end of Henry VIII. Others later published are Maynard's Edward I. and II., and Horwood's translation from MS. which presents cases in various years of Edward I. from 11 to 35 inclusive. yeard, n. An obsolete or dialectal form of eard and of earth. year-daył (yēr'dā), n. [ We haue ordeyned... to kepe the zereday of Jon lyster of Cambryge zerely, on my del ent on sonday,... be cause he gafe vs iiij Marc. in the begynnyng and to the fort her a unce of our gylde. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 281. yeard-fastt, a. Fast in the earth or ground. O about the midst o' Clyde's water There was a yeard fast stane. Burd Ellen (Child's Ballads, III. 214). yeared (yērd), a. [ Both were of best feature, of high race, Yeared but to thirty. B. Jonson, Sejanus, i. 1. year lily (yer'li-li), adv . [ yearly + -ly2.] Yearly. [Rare.] Also there shalbe allowed to him fower Vshers, every of them being yerely allowed for the same 20li. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 2. Yearly will I do this rite. Shak ., Much Ado, v. 3. 23. = = =