Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHIS'LEU
CHIS'LEU, n. [Heb. כסלו, from the Ar. كَسِلَ kasila, to be torpid or cold.]
The ninth month of the Jewish year, answering to a part of November and a part of December, in the modern division of the year.
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