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31 words match “MONTHLY”

MONTHLY a. 5 definitions
Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
BIMONTHLY a. 3 definitions
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.
SEMIMONTHLY a. 3 definitions
Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n.
BIMENSAL a.
See Bimonthly, a. [Obs. or R.]
CATAMENIA n.
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
CIRCLED a.
Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
COMFORTER n.
ff his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
COMMUNICANT n.
itled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.
DERMESTOID a.
Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
DISACCORD n.
Disagreement. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
DOUBLE n.
. . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. Atlantic Monthly.
EPACT n.
cess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar.
EUGENIC a.
Well-born; of high birth. Atlantic Monthly.
HYPOSTATIZE v.
inct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
INFORM v.
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.
INOSCULATE v.
To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.
JASPERIZE v.
make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
LUNISTICE n.
The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]
MANICURE n.
hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
MANSION n.
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.…
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