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

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

loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

A year old; in Yearly growths.

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

Yearly; year by year.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

ich houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.

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

he dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

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.…

That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use. Abbott. To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands. Bacon.

To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

aw, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.

fice. This noble merchant held a noble house. Chaucer. Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute. Knolles. And now the strand, and now the plain, they held. Dryden.