gander-month | A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

gander month
That month in which a man's wife-lies in: wherefore, during that time, husbands plead a sort of indu...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Gander
·noun The male of any species of goose. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Month
·noun One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresp...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Month
Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Month
From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law downward the religious feasts commencing with the...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
gander-pulling
A brutal species of amusement practised in Nova Scotia. We quote Judge Halliburton's account of it f...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
anomalistic month
See anomalistic period. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
synodical month
The period in which the moon goes through every variety of phase, as from one conjunction to another...

The Sailor's Word-Book