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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.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887.

A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

A year old; in Yearly growths.

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Yearly; year by year.

A yearbook.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.