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[A. S. mónath, mondh, from móna the moon; Ger. mon at; O. H. Ger. máno; Dut. maand; Sw. manad; Dan. maaned; Goth. mes ; Ital. mese ; Lat. mens is : Gr. men , from menë the moon; Lith. menes is ; Pers. mûh ; Sansc. más , masas , from ma = to measure.] 1. Astronomy : (1) Properly the time in which the moon makes one complete revolution round the earth, or appears to return to precisely the same point in the heavens from which it started. This may be from change to change, from full moon to full moon, or in an revolution now described is properly 29 days, 12 indefinite number of other ways. The time of the hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds. Twelve periods, called lunar months, fall short of a year by about 11 days. Lunar months were used by the ancient Jews, as they still are by their modern succe ors and by the Mohammedans. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, (2) A solar month; the period required for the pa age of the sun through one of the signs of the zodiac. Twelve of these periods constitute a year. 2. Calendar: Any one of the calendar months, called also usual, natural, civil, or political, though chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; mon tige no us the first is by far the most common term. As an aid to memory with respect to the number of days in each month, the following rude rhymes have been employed at least from A. D. 1606. "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, But February twenty-eight alone, Except in leap year once in four, When February has one day more." 3. Law : Formerly the word month in a statute meant a lunar month, but it was made to signify calendar months unle otherwise expre ly designated. 4. Comm.: A calendar month. (1) Anomalistic month: Astron., .: The time taken by the moon in pa ing from one perigee to the next, viz., 27 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes, and 37'4 seconds. (2) Nodical month : Astron., .: The time taken by the moon in revolving from one node to the same node again, viz., 27 days, 5 hours, 5 minutes, and 36 seconds. (3) Sacred month : (See extract). "Among the other expedients that had been suggested in this convention of Chartist Delegates held in London in August, 1838), was that of observing what was called sacred month, which the working cla es throughout the whole kingdom were to abstain from every kind of labor, in the hope of compelling the gov. erning cla es to concede the Charter." -Moles worth: Hist. Eng ., ii. 281. (4) Sidereal month: Astron., .: The time taken by the moon in pa ing from one star to the same star again, viz., 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11'5 seconds. (5) Synodical, or proper lunar month: [MONTH, 1.] (6) Tropical or periodic month: Astron., .: The time taken by the moon in pa ing from any point of the ecliptic to the same point again, viz., 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 47 seconds. IMG:content-1378.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: A magazine or other periodical published every month. "The ordinary 'monthly' is more and more drawing our popular writers of fiction to itself."- London Daily Telegraph .