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Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

e quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.

To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

ll portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

y to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

Same as Laumontite.

Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.

calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

One who maneuvers. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.…

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. Chaucer.

A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.

A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley.