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The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Inactive; dormant [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

he country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

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.

splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.

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.

sion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

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

Sexual intercourse. W. Montagu.

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

To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Agreement. W. Montagu.

To tread or trample under foot. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu -- Con`cul*ca"tion (, n. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.

To throw together, or to throw. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.