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A register of months. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Occurring once in a month; monthly.

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Subject to monthly flowing or menses.

Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

arrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper. Sir J. Stephen. "The monthly Mercuries." Macaulay.

The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

e alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…

The first month of the Mohammedan year. Whitworth.

only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.

A month. [Obs.] Chaucer.

om the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. Cowper.

A month. [R.] Shak.

ting horses; -- so called from the name of the stud from which the breed originated in Vermont.

A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété.

; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain (La montagne) (French Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.

Montana; -- a nickname.

An animal mounted; a monture. [Obs.]