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Etesian :: Etesian (a.) Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August..

Menstrual :: Menstrual (a.) Of or pertaining to the menses; as, menstrual discharges; the menstrual period..

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Exuviability :: Exuviability (n.) Capability of shedding the skin periodically.

Evening :: Evening (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory..

Undecennary :: Undecennary (a.) Occurring once in every period of eleven years; undecennial.

Bulletin :: Bulletin (n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society..

Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use..

Augurship :: Augurship (n.) The office, or period of office, of an augur..

Lustrum :: Lustrum (n.) A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years..

Archaean :: Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

Late :: Late (a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night..

Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..

Rut :: Rut (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc..

Latterly :: Latterly (adv.) Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period..

Close :: Close (n.) To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction..

Astronomy :: Astronomy (n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena..

Young :: Young (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree..

Life :: Life (n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government..

Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..

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