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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.

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A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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Canicula.

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A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

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A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

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Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color…

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To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunsh…

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The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

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The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

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A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

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A period of ten years.

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A period of ten years.

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A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September;…

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Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

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Same as Drought.

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The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

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Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

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A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subseq…

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A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

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Evening.

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of Even

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Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

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In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

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The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

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The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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A week; a period of seven days.

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An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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The first month after marriage.

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The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

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Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.

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Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.

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A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

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To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

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The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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The time that life continues.

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A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A perio…

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Profuse menstruation.

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The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

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The middle of winter.

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Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is…

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One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of…

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The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

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Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.

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To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

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That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when ther…

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The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.

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The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.

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The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning…

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Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

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Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same o…

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Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

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The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

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A space or period of four years.

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One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

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Space of five years.

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Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

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of Run

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., ca…

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A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

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imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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A floor or story of a house.

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That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Time; period; season.

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Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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of Time

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A tower.

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A term or period of three months.

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A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

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Use; usage; employment.

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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

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An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material,…

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The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called…

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of Youth

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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of End

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of Expel

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A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subseq…

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A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

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The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

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Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

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To appoint.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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