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spense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.…

om one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.

pable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples an…

Retaliation. [Obs.] Just heav'n this taliation did decree. Beaumont.

The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January. Esther ii. 16.

sh with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building. Sir H. Wotton. Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Thomson.

tiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England. Blackstone. -- Test object (Optics), an object which tests the power or quality of a microsc…

ning to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.

some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

en men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

fth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

th; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.

even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

ootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

rs draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.