ricketed (iou) and year(1) (iou)

ricketed (iou)

ricketed adjective. L17.
[from RICKET(S + -ED2.]
Affected by rickets; fig. crippled, impaired.

year noun1. Pl. -s, (now dial.) same.

More fully natural year, solar year, astronomical year. The time taken by the earth to Travel once round the sun, equal to 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. OE.
b. More fully planetary year. The period of revolution of any planet round the sun. E18.
Scientific American The Martian year is 687 earth days long.
A period of roughly this length in a calendar, esp. (in the Gregorian calendar) a period of 365 or 366 days divided into twelve months beginning on 1 January and ending on 31 December, denoted by a number in a particular era. Also calendar year, civil year. OE.
Jewish year, Muslim year, etc. year of the hare, year of the pig, etc., (in the Chinese calendar). Christian Heritage Year, Tree Planting Year, etc.
Canoeist In July their bookings were..doubled on the same month last year. Esquire In the year 1815 a battle would be fought near Waterloo.
A period of twelve months starting at any point; spec. a twelve-month (or shorter or longer) period reckoned for a special purpose (usu. with specifying word); a twelve-month period (identified contextually) as a unit in a person's age, forming part of a term of imprisonment or service. etc. OE.
academic year, fiscal year, school year, tax year, etc.
Tennyson A nurse of ninety years. F. O'Connor I reckon she was forty year old. G. Maxwell Streets..paved with cobbles in the Spanish style of 300 years ago. E. Taylor She was fifteen years older than Polly. Venue With my form, I'd get three to five years for housebreaking. B. Vine He must apply to return to college. 'They'll make me do my whole second year again.'
b. More fully Christian year, Church year. A twelve-month period arranged for religious observance in the Christian Church, usu. beginning with Advent. LME.
c. Following a date: a year before or after the time specified. Cf. WEEK noun 4. arch. M16.
Disraeli I should not be surprised..if he were to change his name again before this time year.
d. A group of students entering college in the same academic year. L19.
S. Smiles At the following Christmas examination he was the first of his year.
In pl.
a. A person's age. OE.
E. A. Freeman William, still a boy in years but a man in conduct and counsel. M. L. King With..his thoughtful expression, he looked older than his years.
b. Old age; maturity. arch. L16.
Shakespeare Richard II Till my infant fortune comes to years. L. Binyon Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
a. In pl. Period, times; (with possess. pronoun) time of life. ME.
E. O'Neill How hard these last years have been for you. Scott Fitzgerald He had changed since his New Haven years.
b. A very long time. Usu. in pl. L17.
Contemporary Review For years the supply of teachers exceeded the demand. E. O'Neill First time he's done that in years. W. F. Harvey It's years since I've been there.
A year as the period of the seasons, and of the growth of crops and vegetation in General; a year regarded in terms of the quality of produce, spec. Wine. LME.
Decanter The unmistakable nose on Chateau de Beaucastel in a good year.
Phrases: astronomical year: see sense 1 above. a year and a day Law a period constituting a term for certain purposes, in order to ensure the completion of a full year. calendar year: see sense 2 above. Christian year: see sense 3b above. Church year: see sense 3b above. civil year: see sense 2 above. common year: see COMMON adjective. dominical year: see DOMINICAL adjective 1. ecclesiastical year = sense 3b above. from year to year continuous or without interruption from one year to the next. great year: see GREAT adjective. JULIAN year. leap year: see LEAP noun1. lunar year: see LUNAR adjective. LUNISOLAR year. METONIC year. natural year: see sense 1 above. planetary year: see sense 1b above. Platonic year: see PLATONIC adjective 1. REGNAL year. sabbatical year: see SABBATICAL adjective. sidereal year: see SIDEREAL adjective 3. solar year: see sense 1 above. Sothic year: see SOTHIC 2. stepped in years: see STEPPED adjective. stricken in years: see STRIKE verb. the tother year: see TOTHER adjective. the year dot, the year one colloq. a time in the remote past. tother year: see TOTHER adjective. tropical year: see TROPICAL adjective 1. well stepped in years: see STEPPED adjective. year after year each year as a sequel to the preceding one, esp. in an unvarying sequence. year by year in each successive year, annually without ceasing. year in, year out: see IN adverb. year of grace: see GRACE noun. year of Our Lord in a year as reckoned from the birth of Jesus. year-on-year adjective Economics (of figures) as compared with the corresponding ones for a date twelve months earlier. years of DISCRETION. See also NEW YEAR.
Comb.: year-bird a hornbill, Aceros plicatus, found from Myanmar (Burma) to New Guinea, which has corrugations on its casque formerly thought to represent annual growth; year class the individuals of a particular animal (esp. a fish) that were born in any one year; year-long adjective lasting for a year; year-old adjective & noun (an animal) one year old; year-ring each of the rings formed by successive years' growth in the wood of a tree; year-round adjective & adverb (existing, occurring, used, etc.) all the year round; year's mind Christian Church (a) the anniversary of a person's death or burial, as an occasion for special prayers; (b) a Requiem Mass held on such an anniversary.

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