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Year
(), n.[OE. yer, yeer, er, AS. ger; akin to OFries. ir, gr, D. jaar, OHG. jr, G. jahr, Icel. r, Dan. aar, Sw. r, Goth. jr, Gr. a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, a year, Zend yre year. 4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]
1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
Of twenty year of age he was, I guess.
Chaucer.
The civil, or legal, year, in England, for
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