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A decree or sentence of a court. Stormonth.

That may be demurred to. Stormonth.

Deplorableness. Stormonth.

Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Disagreement. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.

. . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. Atlantic Monthly.

from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] "Dracontic month." Crabb.

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

An applicant for admission. Stormonth.

cess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

Well-born; of high birth. Atlantic Monthly.

inate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than…

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.

ding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.