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England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.

A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:…

, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. "His holdfast was gone." Bp. Montagu.

The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

The first month after marriage. Addison.

rmerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

To speak or write with exaggeration. Bp. Montagu.

inct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

Unmeasured; unlimited. [R.] W. Montagu.

Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] W. Montagu.

Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.

To people; to give a population to. [Obs.] Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.

Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.

By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.

he quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.

o a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.

lasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.

The state of being indivisible; indivisibility. W. Montagu.