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1261 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFANCY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, infancy extends to the age of twenty one years.
1262 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFANT.2 (Noah Webster)
… second year, but at no definite period. In some cases, authors indulge a greater latitude, and extend the term to include children of several years of age.
1263 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFANT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, a person under the age of twenty one years, who is incapable of making valid contracts.
1264 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEVERET.1 (Noah Webster)
LEVERET, n. A hare in the first year of her age.
1265 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MINOR.5 (Noah Webster)
… . By the laws of Great Britain and of the United States, persons are minors till they are twenty one years of age.
1266 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NONAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
… one years. Nonage is sometimes the period under 14 years of age, as in case of marriage.
1267 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OLD.2 (Noah Webster)
… in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals …
1268 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRECEDENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or the place of honor; the right to a more honorable place in public processions, in seats or in the civilities of life. Precedence depends on the order of nature …
1269 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESENT.6 (Noah Webster)
4. Now existing, or being at this time; not past or future; as the present session of congress. The court is in session at the present time. We say, a present good, the present year or age.
1270 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRIMER-SEIZIN.1 (Noah Webster)
… of the heir, if of full age, one year’s profits of the land if in possession, and half a year’s profits if the land was in reversions expectant on an estate for …
1271 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PUBERTY.1 (Noah Webster)
PUBERTY, n. [L. pubertas, from pubes.] The age at which persons are capable of procreating and bearing children. This age is different in different climates, but is with us considered to be at fourteen years in males, and twelve in females.
1272 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RELIEF.7 (Noah Webster)
… the lord at the death of the ancestor, for the privilege of taking up the estate which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death …
1273 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REVOLUTION.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Continued course marked by the regular return of years; as the revolution of ages.
1274 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROLL.20 (Noah Webster)
4. To revolve; to perform a periodical revolution; as the rolling year. Ages roll away.
1275 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEVENTIETH.1 (Noah Webster)
SEVENTIETH, a. [from seventy.] The ordinal of seventy; as a man in the seventieth year of his age. The seventieth year begins immediately after the close of the sixth-ninth.
1276 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEXAGENARIAN.1 (Noah Webster)
SEXAGENARIAN, n. [infra.] A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years.
1277 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEXAGENARY.1 (Noah Webster)
SEXAGENARY, a. [L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bis-genti.] Designating the number sixty; as a noun, a person sixty years of age; also, something composed of sixty.
1278 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIGHT.3 (Noah Webster)
… by the instrumentality of the eyes. It has been doubted whether moles have sight. Milton lost his sight. The sight usually fails at of before fifty years of …
1279 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOBRIETY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; as the sobriety of riper years; the sobriety of age.
1280 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBSEQUENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.