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fth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

th; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.

even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

ootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

A term or period of three months.

Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds,…

Monthly courses; menses. [Colloq.]

In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1st ultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo.

; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month. He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity. Judg. xviii. 30.

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.

The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend.

eing awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. "Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months." Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. Addison.

te to live; viable. [R.] Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital. Sir T. Browne. Vital air, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to animal life. [Obs.] -- Vital capacity (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the lungs; -- expressed by the number of cubic inches of air wh…

To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.] Pop. Sci. Monthly.

g, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29.