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tation. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. Palfrey.

he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

d more than is natural or usual at a given age; exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; -- used especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious talents.

paratory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.

n which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.

A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak.

The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring. Chaucer. In the very prime of the world. Hooker. Hope waits upon the flowery prime. Waller.

nant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment. The primitias of your parsonage. Spenser.

To delay; to be dilatory. I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. Swift.

Carried forward; advanced. [Obs.] "Provect in years." Sir T. Flyot.

ed, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

ting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer.

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

aid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. Berkeley. -- Worth, or At, [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life…

he king of the north shall come against him. Dan. xi. 40. War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength. Dryden.

lectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

ar Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, afterward once in four.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.