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od occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 da…

he annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.

Desirous. [Obs.] Ormulum. P. Fletcher.

With yearning.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

The earth. [Obs.] "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.

. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.

The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.

The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…

the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

This year. [Obs.] Chaucer.