abstruse; concealed; consumed
·noun The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, — supposed to correspond nearly with our m...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(sprout of life), properly "the Tammuz," the article indicating that at some time or other the word ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary