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To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

ung nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer.

he maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong th…

A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

nt; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

ow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

ide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

ty; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

dows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.