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One who upholds ultramontanism.

An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

em and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

To bind in faith. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, co…

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

rtaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic,…

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.

The fourth month of the year.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.

To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

Opposed to theology; atheistic. Bp. Montagu.

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

available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

d; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.