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1301 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 …
1302 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 …
1303 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.
1304 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 …
1305 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.
1306 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 …
1307 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.
1308 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.
1309 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.
1310 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEXAGENARIAN.1 (Noah Webster)
SEXAGENARIAN, n. [infra.] A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years.
1311 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.
1312 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 …
1313 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.
1314 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.
1315 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUCCESSIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; as the successive revolutions of years or ages; the successive kings of Egypt. The author holds this strain of declamation through seven successive pages …
1316 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEENS.1 (Noah Webster)
TEENS, n. [from teen, ten.] The years of one’s age reckoned by the termination teen. These years begin with thirteen, and end with nineteen. Miss is in her teens.
1317 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TUTORAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
TUTORAGE, n. In the civil law, guardianship; the charge of a pupil and his estate. In France, tutorage does not expire till the pupil is twenty five years of age.
1318 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VESTED.4 (Noah Webster)
… one years of age. This is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it.
1319 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. YEAR.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Years, in the plural, is sometimes equivalent to age or old age; as a man in years.
1320 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. YEARLING.1 (Noah Webster)
YEARLING, n. A young beast one year old, or in the second year of his age.