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nt of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.

rth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

Near; about; approaching to. I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift.

mpt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. Shak.…

In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.

Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]

Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.

Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign. Howell.

Once in three years.

Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial. [R.] J. Gregory.

Festival games celebrated once in three years. [R.] May.

confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young.

d the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than…

nders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year. [Written also tzetze, and tsetze.]

ty or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey.

(d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] -- To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf. -- To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. -- To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. -- To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or…

A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.