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Menses :: Menses (n. pl.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs..

Day :: Day (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time..

Terminist :: Terminist (n.) One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace..

Age :: Age (n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles..

Periodicalist :: Periodicalist (n.) One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical..

Irrevoluble :: Irrevoluble (a.) That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving.

Shrovetide :: Shrovetide (n.) The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday..

Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet re

Isobar :: Isobar (n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line..

Antique :: Antique (a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe..

Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily..

Hebdomad :: Hebdomad (n.) A week; a period of seven days.

Once :: Once (adv.) At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.

Megrim :: Megrim (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head..

Uncut :: Uncut (a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding..

Utica :: Utica (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale..

Schoharie Grit :: Schoharie grit () The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology..

Always :: Always (adv.) Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally..

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

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