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name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. Sothiac, or Sothic, year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years. One of these…

A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]

The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

me; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.

oke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer. the spousals of the newborn year. Emerson.

light disparagement. A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago. Sir W. Scott.

The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring." Shak.

An active, springly young man. [Obs.] "There came two springals of full tender years." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.

A salmon in its second year. [Prov. Eng.]

The male red deer when four years old.

to me all the uses of this world! Shak. Stale affidavit (Law), an affidavit held above a year. Craig. -- Stale demand (Law), a claim or demand which has not been pressed or demanded for a long time.

asting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.

g male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

g.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. Fuller.

Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. Pope. To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company. -- To step forth, to move or come forth. -- To step in or into. (a) To walk or advance into a place or sta…

ren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. Cowper.

The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

A young bull or ox, especially one three years old. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

eteers. Earl of Strafford. How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! Burton.