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or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

hey were clothed all in one livery Of a solempne and a gret fraternite. Chaucer. From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

ing an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax. -- Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29

A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shak.

he equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least…

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

ion of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.

ho headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. -- Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically in…

der 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.

of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.

Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.

A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Of or pertaining to the menses; as, menstrual discharges; the menstrual period.

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.