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or correcting 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.

ion of the 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 t…

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

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

One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

y infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

Advanced in years; elderly.

y a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton.

Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.

The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. Chaucer.

Possible; probable, but not sure. [R.] Then add those maybe years thou hast to live. Driden.

motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars.

An average. [R.] A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace. Burke.

Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. May health return to mellow age. Wordsworth. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written.

. See Ark, 2. -- Sisters of Mercy (R. C. Ch.),a religious order founded in Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have since been established in various American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect decen…

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

e new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.