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distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]

A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

ars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc. -- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, st…

Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Sin that his lord was twenty year of age. Chaucer.

present; before this or now; ago. w many ages since has Virgil writ Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney.

om most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.

ink me. Shak. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years. Rowe.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

f suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.…

The unicameral national assembly of Bulgaria, elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage of adult males.

erheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years. Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad. Denham.

Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

Milton. The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year. Bp. Stillingfleet.

solemnities From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay These grateful honors to the god of day. Pope.

A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck. Shak.