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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.

To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. "Well struck in years." Shak. To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. -- To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepare…

Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.

ive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.

Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

wing one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.

ew arrived. Daniel. To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. James iv. 13.

Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.

f one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

Regular order; succession. [Obs.] Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. Bacon. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] Shak. -- Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them…

The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants. [Obs.] Bacon.