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A period of ten years.

Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games. Hallam.

A period of ten years. "The present decennium." Hallam. "The last decennium of Chaucer's life." A. W. Ward.

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.

ber of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that the ratio of those dying in a year to those living through the year is constant, being independent of the age of the persons.…

d out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier.

bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use. Abbott. To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. Bacon.

d develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]

the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

k. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.

influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

nce; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.] One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense. Spenser.

y by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.