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1281 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of man is seventy years; the age of a horse may be twenty or thirty years; the age of a tree may be four hundred years.
1282 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AGE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. The period when a person is enabled by law to do certain acts for himself, or when he ceases to be controlled by parents or guardians; as, in our country, both males and females are of age in twenty-one years old.
1283 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BISHOP.8 (Noah Webster)
… thirty years of age; and all bishops, except the bishop of Man, are peers of the realm.
1284 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOY.2 (Noah Webster)
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; but in general, applied to males under ten or twelve years of age; a lad. Sometimes it is used in contempt for a young man, indicating immaturity, want of vigor or judgment.
1285 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSUL.2 (Noah Webster)
… in the campus Martius. In the first ages of Tome, they were elected from Patrician families or noblemen; but in the year of Rome 388, the people obtained the privilege …
1286 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECEASE.4 (Noah Webster)
Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age.
1287 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTANCE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; as the distance of an hour, of a year, of an age.
1288 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EAGLE.3 (Noah Webster)
… called the king of birds. Hence the figure of an eagle was made the standard of the Romans, and a spread eagle is a principal figure in the arms of the United States …
1289 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELEPHANT.2 (Noah Webster)
… hard. The bony substance of these is called ivory. The elephant is 30 years in coming to his full growth, and he lives to 150 or 200 years of age. Elephants are natives …
1290 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENSUE.6 (Noah Webster)
1. To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events.
1291 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To begin in a business, employment or service; to enlist or engage in; as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age.
1292 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAD.13 (Noah Webster)
10. State of a deer’s horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head.
1293 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEARSE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A hind in the second year of her age.
1294 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPABLE.8 (Noah Webster)
… having the legal or constitutional qualifications. A man not thirty years of age is unqualified, and therefore incapable of holding the office of president …
1295 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFANCY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In law, infancy extends to the age of twenty one years.
1296 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.
1297 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.
1298 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEVERET.1 (Noah Webster)
LEVERET, n. A hare in the first year of her age.
1299 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.
1300 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.