Definition of month

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Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..

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Fourteenth :: Fourteenth (a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month..
First :: First (a.) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign..
December :: December (n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice..
March-mad :: March-mad (a.) Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month..
Twelvemonth :: Twelvemonth (n.) A year which consists of twelve calendar months.
Botfly :: Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and anot
Lager Beer :: Lager beer () Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use..
Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method..
Sebat :: Sebat (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February..
Prairial :: Prairial (n.) The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire..
Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month..
March :: March (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
Thermidor :: Thermidor (n.) The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendemiaire..
Embolism :: Embolism (n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year..
Ultimo :: Ultimo () In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1st ultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo..
Peragration :: Peragration (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution..
Menstruant :: Menstruant (a.) Subject to monthly flowing or menses.
Stipend :: Stipend (n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually..
Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..
Semimonthly :: Semimonthly (a.) Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment..
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