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make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time of the Babylonian Exile. Nineteen years constitute a lunar cycle, of which the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years are…

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

The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days. And what is so rare as a day in June Then, if ever, come perfect days. Lowell. June beetle, June bug (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in the northern Unite…

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

e quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.

To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

ll portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.

calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.…

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

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

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley.

A register of months. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Occurring once in a month; monthly.