2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
3. pl.
Defn: Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak. Anomalistic year,
the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion
again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
— A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as
by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month.
— Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
— Canicular year. See under Canicular.
— Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of
time.
— Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days.
— Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap
year.
— Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13
lunar months, or 384 days.
— Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or
the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of
accounts, and another.
— Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
— Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian.
— Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
— Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months,
or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
— Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
— Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
— Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and
Sabbatical.
— Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any
fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9
minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
— Tropical year. See under Tropical.
— Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or
an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all
question. Abbott.
— Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D.
or a. d.
YEARA
Ye*a"ra, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
YEARBOOK
Year"book`, n.
1. A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
2. (Eng. Law)
Defn: A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.
Note: The Yearbooks are the oldest English reports extant, beginning with the reign of Edward II., and ending with the reign of Henry VIII. They were published annually, and derive their name from that fact. They consist of eleven parts, or volumes, are written in Law French, and extend over nearly two hundred years. There are, however, several hiatuses, or chasms, in the series. Kent. Bouvier.