ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

&c (beginning) 66; diluvian † , antediluvian; protohistoric † ; prehistoric; antebellum,
colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite † ; paleocrystic † ; fossil, paleozoolical,
paleozoic, preglacial † , antemundane † ; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral, black-letter.
immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.
antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date,
out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone
out, gone by; passe, run out; senile &c 128; time worn; crumbling &c (deteriorated) 659;
secondhand.
old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam † , old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)] Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000], Proterozoic [1,500,000,000], Paleozoic [600,000,000], Mesozoic
[220,000,000], Cenozoic [70,000,000].
[geological periods] Precambrian, Cambrian [600,000,000], Ordovician
[500,000,000], Silurian [440,000,000], Devonian [400,000,000], Mississippian
[350,000,000], Pennsylvanian [300,000,000], Permian [270,000,000], Triassic
[220,000,000], Jurassic [180,000,000], Cretaceous [135,000,000], Tertiary [70,000,000],
Paleogene [70,000,000], Neocene [25,0000,000], Quaternary [1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)] Paleocene, Eocene,
Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.
Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah.
Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Lat.] [Tacitus].
125. Morning [Noon.] -- N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime, dawn, daybreak;
dayspring † , foreday † , sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning,
first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow,
cockcrowing † ; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.
summer, midsummer.
Adj. matin, matutinal † ; vernal.
Adv. at sunrise &c n.; with the sun, with the lark, when the morning dawns.
Phr. at shut of evening flowers [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et loup [Fr.]; flames in the
forehead of the morning sky [Milton]; the breezy call of incense-breathing morn [Gray].
126. Evening [Midnight.] -- N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day;
candlelight, candlelighting † ; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour;
sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
afternoon, postmeridian, p.m.
autumn, fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.
Luke's summer, St.
Martin's summer.
midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night;
winter; killing time.
Adj. vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal.