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One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

at this has been brought about mainly by gradual changes of environment which have led to corresponding changes of structure, and that those forms which have become so modified as to be best adapted to the changed environment have tended to survive and leave similarly adapted descendants, while those less perfectly ada…

A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

s; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's…

Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal; as:

answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief. H. Spencer.

one or to the odontoid process. Odontoid bone (Anat.), a separate bone, in many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process. -- Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.

A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. -- n.

ojection, a projection in which the angles in the figure to be projected are equal to the corresponding angles in the projected figure.

Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

les on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.

oportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.

language of common life there is a difference between them, such as we often find between corresponding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, a…

In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.

tly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance mor…

In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. Ld. Lytton.