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Old style. See NEW YEAR'S DAY...
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Old fashioned
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern belonging to or characteristic of times past adhering to old customs styles or ideas as an old fashioned dress girl old fashioned wire rimmed glasses...
Lady-day
Lady-day, the 25th of March in every year, being the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, and one of the usual quarterly days for the payment of rent, etc. lady-day, under the old style, was April 6th....
Metals, dealers in old
Metals, dealers in old, defined as any person dealing in, buying, and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such Articles only, or together with second-hand goods or marine stores, and the term 'old metals' means the said Articles. See (English) Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of an offence against the Act, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. See also (English) Public Stores Act, 1875, ss. 9, 10, and 11 and Public Health Amendment Act,...
country style
of a style associated with rural areas as country style sausage...
New style
New style. The modern system of computing time was introduced into Great Britain in 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23), the 3rd of September of that year being reckoned as the 14th. See NEW YEAR'S DAY....
Old machinery
Old machinery, in the absence of any indication to that effect and when the expression 'old' is by itself vague, imprecise, and ambiguous, being too general, the principle of noscitur a sociis will have to be applied i.e. all the associated words will take colour from each other, the meaning of the more general adjective viz. 'old' being restricted to a sense analogous to the less general adjectives 'discarded, unserviceable or obsolete'. In order to fall within the expression 'old machinery' occurr-ing in the entry, the machinery must be old machinery in the sense that it has become non-functional or non-usable, Rainbow Steels Ltd. v. C.S.T., AIR 1981 SC 2101 (2104): (1981) 2 SCC 141: (1981) 2 SCR 727. [U.P. Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), Notification dt. 30-5-1975, entry 15]...
Directoire style
A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes...
Style
Style, to call, name, or entitle one; the title or appellation of a person. See also CALENDAR, and NEW YEAR'S DAY....
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