mēnōþs. √272. See
Moon.]
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.&fist; In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed. Blackstone. In
the United States the rule of the common law is generally changed,
and a month is declared to mean a calendar month. Cooley's
Blackstone.
A month mind.
(a) A strong
or abnormal desire. [Obs.]
Shak. (b)A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month
after death. Strype. --
Calendar
months,
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 kinds are distinguished, as the
synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in
mean length 29 d.
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