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Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.

The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendÉmiaire.

lendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:

ited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.

busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer. Whereon this month I have hammering. Shak.

ands. The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year. Sir W. Temple.

England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.

A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:…

The first month after marriage. Addison.

rmerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

inct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

to tell. Shak. He might either teach in the same manner,or inform how he had been taught. Monthly Rev. To inform against, to communicate facts by way of accusation against; to denounce; as, two persons came to the magistrate, and informed against A.

To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.

Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.

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