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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.

An object of derision; a laughingstock. And now am I their song. yea, I am their byword. Job xxx. 9.

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.

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.]

or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge. He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! Shak. Field sparrow, Fox sparrow, etc. See under Field, Fox, etc. -- Sparrow bill, a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable. -- Sparrow hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A sma…

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.

med into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.

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.]

To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.

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.