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eing the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.

A radioactive product intermediate between thorium and radiothorium, with a period of 5.5 years.

paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from meteors. -- Meteoric showers, periodical exhibitions of shooting stars, occuring about the 9th or 10th of August and 13th of November, more rarely in April and December, and also at some other periods.

Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.

A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms. --Mi`cro*seis*mom"e*try (#), n.

To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

ears; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.

g which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.

present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

Information; indication; notice; advice. We have no visible monition of ... other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.

n, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

p., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

.] Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth.

September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. Neptune powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin, -- used in blasting. -- Neptune's cup (Zoöl.), a very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge (Thalassema Neptuni).

A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.

The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden.