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Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n.

Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. -- adv.

ny paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Wi…

; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. Dryden.

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.

Weekly; hebdomadal. [Obs.]

to the capital on horseback and with no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee, refusal to recognize titles of honor, etc.

A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc. ; a periodical; a magazine.

A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. Hooker.

e's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

y the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. -- To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.

usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.