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beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

Yeast; barm. [prov. Eng.]

The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.

edish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as the most important work during the year in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, idealistic literature, and service in the interest of peace. The prizes, averaging $40,000 each, were first awar…

A person ninety years old.

ittle Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.

The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

Done or recurring every ninth year.

Done or recurring every ninth year.

have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

s of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning).

Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.

ined to signify temperance in drinking. Jer. Taylor. The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.

o the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow.

Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years. Johnson. -- Oc*ten"ni*al*ly, adv.

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

A person eighty years, or more, of age.

Of eighty years of age. "Being then octogenary." Aubrey.

definitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra. Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet. There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak.