April
['eɪprəl] or ['eprəl]
Definition
(n.) The fourth month of the year.
(n.) Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
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Definition
n. the fourth month of the year.—n. A′pril-fool one sent upon a bootless errand on the 1st of April perhaps a relic of some old Celtic heathen festival. In Scotland called gowk (a cuckoo a fool).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the month of April, signifies that much pleasure and profit will be your allotment. If the weather is miserable, it is a sign of passing ill luck.
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Examples
- Early on the morning of 30th of April McClernand's corps and one division of McPherson's corps were speedily landed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After several severe skirmishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden, which he occupied about the middle of April. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- April came--the month of spring--the month of change. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Research has shown, however, that the latch was not broadly new with Hibbert, as it appeared in the French patent to Jeandeau, No. 1,900, of April 25, 1806. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This was ultimately done, and in April, 1804, Fulton left France and returned to London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Osborne Athene House, 24 April, 1827 Think of him writing such a hand, and quoting Greek too, at his age, the delighted mother said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The river was higher than its natural banks from December, 1862, to the following April. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Of course I didn't mean that, dearest; but soon after Easter--so that we could sail at the end of April. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The following April he went back to Georgia, where he found unusually large crops of cotton had been planted, in expectation of using the gin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- During the night, General Banks continued his retrograde movement to Grand Ecore, and thence to Alexandria, which he reached on the 27th of April. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We arrived in the Downs on the 13th of April, 1702. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Many thousands of these have been patented, but the Janney coupling, patented April 29, 1873, No. 138,405, is the most representative type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- During this day I accompanied General Meade's column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee: April 8, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was not satisfactory, but I regarded it as deserving another letter and wrote him as follows: April 8, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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