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the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.
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.
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Being a year old.
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Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
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Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.
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Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
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Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
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The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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With yearning.
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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 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).
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Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
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Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.
imp. & p. p.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Yearn
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An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
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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.
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Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
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Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.
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Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
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Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.
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