Term

1. n. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
2. n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
3. n. The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
4. n. In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
5. n. A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
6. n. A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
7. n. The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
8. n. A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
9. n. The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
10. n. The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
11. 1n. 1 A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
12. 1n. 1 That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.