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A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer. Calippic period, a period of seventy-six years, proposed by Calippus, as an improvement on the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

by the rising of the Dog Star. Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. -- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.

residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). -- Canon law. See under Law. -- Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. -- Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours.…

uls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.

n exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.

A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.

ion of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

on of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

Of or relating to a hundred years. -- n.

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." Fuller.

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

o; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

Once in a hundred years.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

essation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.…

A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.