Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-CEM'BER
DE-CEM'BER, n. [L. december, from decem, ten; this being the tenth month among the early Romans, who began the year in March.]
The last month in the year, in which the sun enters the tropic of Capricorn, and makes the winter solstice.
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