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The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

ial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

All Saints' Day, November 1st. [Archaic]

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

s a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. Dryden. The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey.

cember 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

odic coment, discovered by Biela in 1826, which revolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.

The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.

onvey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

mmer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.

day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.

The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.

A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot. The lady . . . who dresses like a guy. W. S. Gilbert.

of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.

dical exhibitions of shooting stars, occuring about the 9th or 10th of August and 13th of November, more rarely in April and December, and also at some other periods.

, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. -- Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kind…

The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.