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The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.…

A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.

The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

f this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

s student. -- Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

ole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. Waterland. At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.

The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.

of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.

Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends. Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance. Milton.

A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent…

e (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.

pore in certain orders of algæ, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time. C. E. Bessey.

A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.

ard; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events. "The short revolution of a day." Dryden.

in Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.

An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Wheatstone.

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc. )