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November|nəʊˈvɛmbə(r)|
Also 3, 5 Nouembre, 4–6 Novembre. Abbreviated Nov.
[a. L. November (also Novembris, sc. mensis), f. novem nine. The ME. form was perh. ad. OF. Novembre.]
The eleventh month of the year, containing 30 days.[c960Rule St. Benet (Schröer) 32 Fram þan anᵹinne þæs monðes, þe is nouember ᵹehaten. a1000Menologium 196 Þæs ofstum bringð..Blot-monað on tun,..Nouembris, niða bearnum eadiᵹnesse.] a1225Leg. Kath. 1414 Þe þreottuðe dei Of Nouembres moneð. c1290St. Michael 103 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 302 Seint Miȝhel in nouembre hath ȝeot an-oþur dai. 1390Gower Conf. III. 124 That is Novembre which I meene, Whan that the lef hath lost his greene. 1481Caxton Godfrey 312 Enprynted the xx day of nouembre the yere a forsayd. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. xlv. (1636) 358 Thirty daies hath November, Aprill, Iune, and September. 1672–3Grew Anat. Plants ii. iii. (1682) 68 The Root of Dandelion being cut in November, seems to bleed both a Milk and a Lympha. 1784Cowper Task iii. 467 When now November dark Checks vegetation in the torpid plant. 1808Scott Marm. Introd. i, November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. 1897Ouida Massarenes xii, Our Aprils are considerably worse than our Novembers.
b. attrib. and Comb., as November dawn, November day, November mist, November tide.
1820Scott Monast. viii, A November mist overspread the little valley. Ibid. ix, The November day was well spent ere the Sub-Prior resumed his journey. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 611 The chill November dawns and dewy-glooming downs. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 87 It was about November-tide.
c. As a moth-name: (see quots.).
1832Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 266 November, (Harr.) See Feathered Thorn [Himera pennaria]. November, (Haw.) See Autumn Border [Oporabia dilutata]. 1874E. Newman Brit. Moths 109 The November Moth [Oporabia] appears on the wing in November, and is common everywhere in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Hence Noˈvemberish a., Noˈvemb(e)ry a., characteristic of November; dismal, gloomy.
1792Burns Let. Wks. (Globe) 516 Here I sit, altogether Novemberish, a d—d mélange of fretfulness and melancholy. 1840Miss Sedgwick Lett. fr. Abroad (1841) II. 32 It is cold, Novemberish, and raining. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 52 Unpleasant, Novembery days. 1870Daily News 2 Nov., Weather still ‘Novembry’ in the extreme. 1939War Illustr. 9 Dec. p. ii/2 We are approaching the shortest day, and the weather has been thoroughly Novemberish, in London especially. a1945E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxvii. 193 Even in that Novemberish raw weather of her years, some strength of lost youth, some glory,..lived on. |