(a) A stage or period in human life, a person's age; one of the 'seven periods' of life; also, the condition of having lived a certain time; betwen two ages, ?between youth and middle age, ?middle-aged; (b) the age (of an inanimate thing); ~ of the mone, the age of the moon, date in the lunar month; (c) person (or persons) of a certain stage in life.

(a) grene ~, tender ~, young ~, childhood or early youth; also, the quality of being young, youthfulness; of tender (young) age, tender (young) of ~, young, youthful, in early youth, in childhood; ~ of souking, infancy; (b) eld ~, old ~, ~ of eld lif, old age; first ~, early adulthood; later ~, later years, later life; last ~, last years, old age; mannes ~, ~ of man, manhood; middel ~, middle age; of old ~, of (in) gret ~, old, aged; perfit ~, ripe ~, maturity; unperfit ~, immaturity.

(a) of age, aged, old, of age; more of ~, older; of ~ twelf yer, twelve years old; twenti yer of ~; of the ~ of four and twenti yer; of eighte-tene yer of ~; etc.; (b) of half yer ~, half a year old; of thre yer ~; of twelf winter ~, twelve years old; etc.; (c) of (one's) ~, considering (one's) age, for (his, her, their) age; (d) of on ~, of the same age.

(a) The right or suitable time of life; the age (at which to do sth., at which sth. may be or be done); the age for assuming the responsibilities of adulthood, legal age; ~ of resouning, age of reason; ben of ~, haven ~, to be old enough (for sth.); haven non ~, to be too young (for sth.); out of ~, ayein (besides, withouten) the time of ~, too old, over age; (b) ben of ~, haven ~, to be of legal age; to be old enough to bear arms, take possession of an inheritance, marry, beget or bear children; comen in (of, to) ~, to come of age (esp., in the legal sense); ful ~, plein ~, adulthood, maturity, legal majority; tender ~, young ~, legal childhood, minority, nonage; waxen of ~, to reach adulthood; within ~, in childhood, in (one's) nonage, under legal age; (c) of animals: maturity; of ~, sexually mature.

(a) Old age; the state of being aged; also, the effects of old age; in god ~, at a ripe old age; (b) fallen in ~, ronnen in (into) ~, stapen in ~, striken on ~, wel in ~, advanced in years, aged; (c) fig. an old person.

(a) A person's lifetime; in mi ~, in all my life; term of his ~, for life, the rest of his life; (b) the lifetime of an animal; the period of a thing's existence; ~ of the mone, the number of days from one new moon to the next, a lunar month; worldes ~, the duration of the world.

(a) A period in history, the era in which someone lived, a generation; of even ~, contemporary; (b) one of the 'seven ages' of the world; first ~, former ~, rather ~, the age of primitive man, the Golden Age; (c) a season of the year; (d) the men of one period, a generation.

Time (in general); also, the passage of time.