tropic month

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tropic month - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tropical \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
     See Tropic, n.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
        incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as,
        tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;
        tropical diseases.
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     2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact
        original sense; being of the nature of a trope;
        figurative; metaphorical. --Jer. Taylor.
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              The foundation of all parables is some analogy or
              similitude between the tropical or allusive part of
              the parable and the thing intended by it. --South.
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     Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month.
  
     Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun
        in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same
        again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48
        minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds
        shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the
        precession of the equinoxes.
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