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Previous notice. "At a month's warning." Dryden. A great journey to take upon so short a warning. L'Estrange.

To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day. Hawthorne.

sagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. [R.] Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.

Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month. -- Bissextile year. See Bissextile. -- Canicular year. See under Canicular. -- Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. -- Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar mon…

The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.