Monthly: alternatives and connections

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was ca…

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal f…

Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, u…

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month…

The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the em…

The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of t…

A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, bu…

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

an anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF; it is given intravenously at one-month to t…

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant…

In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heave…

Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.