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unisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the…

Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

Full of lust; excited by lust Spenser. Tillotson.

State of being lusty; vigor of body. " Full of lustihood." Tennyson.

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak.

An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Full of whims; capricious. Norris.

Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [R.] Fuller.

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers.' Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak.

Maidenhood. [Obs.] Fuller.

Of full legal age. [Obs.]

The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. [Obs.] H. Brooke. Fuller.

Injurious. Fuller.

rch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

One who works upon marble or other stone. [R.] Fuller.

Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. Fuller. Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. Tennyson.

ughter of Henry VIII. Of all the Marian martyrs, Mr. Philpot was the best-born gentleman. Fuller. Maid Marian. See Maidmarian in the Vocabulary.

Full of marrow; pithy.