The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
   m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
   maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
   m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]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.
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   Note: 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.
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   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. 12 h. 44 m.
      2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
      one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
      s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
      the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
      anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
      perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
      the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
      ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
      s.

   Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
      sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
      s.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
   1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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   2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
      of a planet from its perihelion.
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   Anomalistic month. See under Month.

   Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or
      satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes
      of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the
      same again.

   Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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