January
['dʒænjʊ(ə)rɪ] or ['dʒænjʊ'ɛri]
Definition
(noun.) the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice.
Typist: Rowland--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Edited by Dwight
Definition
n. the first month of the year dedicated by the Romans to Jan′us the god of opening with a double head that looked both ways.—adjs. Jan′uform two-faced; Jan′us-faced double-dealing: deceitful.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of this month, denotes you will be afflicted with unloved companions or children.
Edited by Johanna
Examples
- His first United States patent, No. 174,465, was granted March 7, 1876, and his second January 30, 1877, No. 186,787. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus in January, 1880, his first patent application for a System of Electrical Distribution was signed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the 29th of January I arrived at Young's Point and assumed command the following day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I shall see her in January. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- On the 31st of January I countermanded the orders given to Thomas to move south to Alabama and Georgia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Watson's paper is dated January 21, 1748; Franklin's July 11, 1747; several months prior. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In January of 1884, Wroblewski confirmed the liquefaction of hydrogen, which had been imperfectly accomplished by Cailletet before. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Philadelphia, January 6, 1726-7. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I was back in Nashville by the 13th of January, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. and Mrs. Casaubon, returning from their wedding journey, arrived at Lowick Manor in the middle of January. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mathematics was very easy to me, so that when January came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The patents to Breul, No. 359,054, March 8, 1887, and No. 467,331, January 19, 1892, are good examples. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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