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.
| [c 960 Rule St. Benet (Schröer) 32 Fram þan anᵹinne þæs monðes, þe is nouember ᵹehaten. a 1000 Menologium 196 Þæs ofstum bringð..Blot-monað on tun,..Nouembris, niða bearnum eadiᵹnesse.] |
| a 1225 Leg. Kath. 1414 Þe þreottuðe dei Of Nouembres moneð. c 1290 St. Michael 103 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 302 Seint Miȝhel in nouembre hath ȝeot an-oþur dai. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 124 That is Novembre which I meene, Whan that the lef hath lost his greene. 1481 Caxton Godfrey 312 Enprynted the xx day of nouembre the yere a forsayd. 1594 Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. xlv. (1636) 358 Thirty daies hath November, Aprill, Iune, and September. 1672–3 Grew Anat. Plants ii. iii. (1682) 68 The Root of Dandelion being cut in November, seems to bleed both a Milk and a Lympha. 1784 Cowper Task iii. 467 When now November dark Checks vegetation in the torpid plant. 1808 Scott Marm. Introd. i, November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. 1897 Ouida Massarenes xii, Our Aprils are considerably worse than our Novembers. |
b. attrib. and
Comb., as
November dawn,
November day,
November mist,
November tide.
| 1820 Scott Monast. viii, A November mist overspread the little valley. Ibid. ix, The November day was well spent ere the Sub-Prior resumed his journey. 1864 Tennyson En. Ard. 611 The chill November dawns and dewy-glooming downs. 1866 Neale Sequences & Hymns 87 It was about November-tide. |
c. As a moth-name: (see
quots.).
| 1832 Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 266 November, (Harr.) See Feathered Thorn [Himera pennaria]. November, (Haw.) See Autumn Border [Oporabia dilutata]. 1874 E. 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.
| 1792 Burns Let. Wks. (Globe) 516 Here I sit, altogether Novemberish, a d—d mélange of fretfulness and melancholy. 1840 Miss Sedgwick Lett. fr. Abroad (1841) II. 32 It is cold, Novemberish, and raining. a 1864 Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 52 Unpleasant, Novembery days. 1870 Daily News 2 Nov., Weather still ‘Novembry’ in the extreme. 1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. p. ii/2 We are approaching the shortest day, and the weather has been thoroughly Novemberish, in London especially. a 1945 E. 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. |