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PLATONIC YEAR

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the Great Year, is a period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes. See Astronomy, p. 562.

Platoon, in the military art, a small square body of forty or fifty men, drawn out of a battalion of foot, and placed between the squadrons of horse, to sustain them:

Platysma myoides, in anatomy. See Anatomy, p. 195.