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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.

leasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison. -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*com"fort*a*bly, adv.

Occurring once in every period of eleven years; undecennial. An undecennary account laid before Parliament. E. Stiles.

Occurring or observed every eleventh year; belonging to, or continuing, a period of eleven years; undecennary; as, an undecennial festival.

their virtue. Hooker. There are several hundred parishes in England under twenty pounds a year. Swift. It was too great an honor for any man under a duke. Addison.

Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish. [Obs.] I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.

ted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

attern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

Not spent in study. [Obs.] "To cloak the defects of their unstudied years." Milton.