·noun One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, — whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a 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
From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law downward the religious feasts commencing with the...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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
the month in which the wife lies in. Derb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See anomalistic period. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The period in which the moon goes through every variety of phase, as from one conjunction to another...