·- 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.
·noun A <<Fault>>. II. Leap ·noun A weel or wicker trap for fish. III. Leap ·noun A <<Basket>>. I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, lib half a bushel. Suss. In Essex a lib is a basket for carrying seed corn. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The sudden fall of a river in one sheet. Also, a weel, made of twigs, to catch fish in. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun Age, or old age; as, a man in years. II. Year ·noun The time in which any planet completes a ...
Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The duration of the earth's revolution round the sun, or of the apparent revolution of the sun in th...
the highest ordinary division of time. Two years were known to, and apparently used by, the Hebrews....
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun The venereal disease; — often used as a mild oath. ...
·add. ·- The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; — used as a unit in expressing ...
·add. ·- The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so t...
·adj Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes....
Every seventh year, during which the land, according to the law of Moses, had to remain uncultivated...
The space of time in which the earth passes through her orbit distinct from and longer than the trop...
[Trumpets, Feast Of FEAST OF] ...
Each seventh year, by the Mosaic code, was to be kept holy. (Exodus 23:10,11) The commandment is to ...
[Sabbatical Year YEAR] ...
[Jubilee, The Year Of, YEAR OF] ...
the name.-The name jubilee is derived from the Hebrew jobel, the joyful shout or clangor of trumpets...