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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.

A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel. Chaucer.

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.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian. Metonic cycle or year. (Astron.) See under Cycle.

Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.

combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.

Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian."During that millenary." Hare.

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

One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.

A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during 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.

il rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.