n. a very long time; ages. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

adj. Being in the first year of an experience especially in a U. S. high school or college; -- of a person.
Syn. -- freshman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to the fourth and final year in a U. S. high school or college.
Syn. -- senior(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Goujere. ] The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n.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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. If not so divisible they are common years. 1900, therefore, is not a leap year, but 2000 is. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Astron.) 1. The distance over which light can travel in a year's time in a vacuum, 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers); -- 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 star nearest to the earth's sun is about 4 light years distant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. a very large difference; -- used figuratively to express great differences (of distance, quality, time) in comparisons. “Although having the same rank and salary, they were light-years apart in their ability to perform their jobs.” [ PJC ]

prop. n. The year used by Muslims, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 321/2 years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a. d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 being Nov. 30, 1913, according to the Gregorian calendar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes. [ 1913 Webster ]

the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. completing its life cycle within a year. [ prenominal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ To, prep. + year. ] This year. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. yer, yeer, &yogh_;er, AS. geár; akin to OFries. i&unr_;r, g&unr_;r, D. jaar, OHG. jār, G. jahr, Icel. ār, Dan. aar, Sw. år, Goth. j&unr_;r, Gr. &unr_; a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, &unr_; a year, Zend yāre year. √4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. --
A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month. --
Bissextile year. See Bissextile. --
Canicular year. See under Canicular. --
Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. --
Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. --
Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. --
Embolismic year, or
Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. --
Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. --
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. --
Gregorian year,
Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. --
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. --
Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. --
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar. --
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above. --
Platonic year,
Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical. --
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. --
Tropical year. See under Tropical. --
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott. --
Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug.
Syn. -- date compliant. [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) an error in the coding of certain computer programs in which the year portion of dates was represented by only two decimal digits, assuming that the first two digits are “19”. In such a program the the year 1975 is represented as “75”. This was a common practise in computer programming even into the 1990's, as many programmers failed to consider that their programs would be used after the year 1999. Thus, with such a program, a person born in 2000 would be considered as 101 years old in 2001; many different serious problems, as various as the programs, could be caused by such an error. In 1998 many programs with the year 2000 bug were still not corrected, and it is not clear how many programs will retain the bug when the year 2000 arrives. Tune in then.
Syn. -- millemium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K problem. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Law) A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

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☞ The Yearbooks are the oldest English reports extant, beginning with the reign of Edward II., and ending with the reign of Henry VIII. They were published annually, and derive their name from that fact. They consist of eleven parts, or volumes, are written in Law French, and extend over nearly two hundred years. There are, however, several hiatuses, or chasms, in the series. Kent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the end of a calendar year. he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. taking place at the close of a fiscal year. year-end audit [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Year + -ling. ] An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being a year old. “A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. lasting through a year. attending year-long courses
Syn. -- yearlong. [ WordNet 1.5 + CM ]

adv. [ AS. geárlice. ] Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yearly will I do this rite. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. geárlic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Yearned p. pr. & vb. n. Yearning. ] [ Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge (see Y-). ] To pain; to grieve; to vex. [ Obs. ] “She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn. [ Obs. ] “Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ See Yearnings. ] To curdle, as milk. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. yernen, &yogh_;ernen, &yogh_;eornen, AS. geornian, gyrnan, fr. georn desirous, eager; akin to OS. gern desirous, girnean, gernean, to desire, D. gaarne gladly, willingly, G. gern, OHG. gerno, adv., gern, a., G. gier greed, OHG. girī greed, ger desirous, gerōn to desire, G. begehren, Icel. girna to desire, gjarn eager, Goth. faíhugaírns covetous, gaírnjan to desire, and perhaps to Gr. chai`rein to rejoice, be glad, Skr. hary to desire, to like. √33. ] To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep. Gen. xliii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your mother's heart yearns towards you. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. &yogh_;eornful, AS. geornfull. ] Desirous. [ Obs. ] Ormulum. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.
Syn. -- longing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. full of longing or unfulfilled desire.
Syn. -- wistful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With yearning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Cf. AS. geirnan, geyrnan, to rum. See 4th Earn. ] The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having reached an age as specified; as, a two-year-old toddler. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. operating or continuing throughout the year; as, a year-round resort; a year-round job. Antonym of seasonal.
Syn. -- year-around. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

The amount that is yielded by the 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The earth. [ Obs. ] “Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled?” Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The year last past; last year. [ 1913 Webster ]