Gode-year means: The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath.
Half-yearly means: Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
Leap year means: 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.
New-year means: Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
New Year's Day means: the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.
Toyear means: This year.
Year means: 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 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 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
Year means: The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
Year means: Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
Yeara means: The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.
Zythepsary means: A brewery.
Zythem means: See Zythum.
Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.
Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.
Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.
Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
Zymose means: Invertin.
Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.
Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.
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