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The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

rly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.

placing is both the patron and the ordinary. If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.

ff his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

itled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

A conjecturer. [R.] Month. rev.

A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

One who belong to a council; one who gives an opinion. [Obs.] I will in three months be an expert counsilist. Milton.

thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.

firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

sent our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. Evelyn.

That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. And bonds without a date, they say, are void. Dryden.

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.