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April   /ˈeɪprəl/   Listen
noun
April  n.  
1.
The fourth month of the year.
2.
Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. "The April's her eyes; it is love's spring."
April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.





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... infortunii miserrimum est fuisse felicem," [7] or, at any rate, to recognise the language it was written in, interested himself forthwith on behalf of his scholarly recruit. [6] Coleridge's discharge was obtained at Hounslow on April 10, 1794, and he ...
— English Men of Letters: Coleridge • H. D. Traill
... years ago. Little boys snatched the April violets, and with them painted purple stripes upon their arms and faces. Then ...
— The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone • Margaret A. McIntyre
... 'April 5. He is away at Florence, and I am working at some difficult points for him—about some suppressed monasteries. I have asked Count B—, who knows all about such things, to help me, and am working very hard. He comes back in ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... March: a cold, wet April, and two weeks of May passed over before we could venture forth on our expedition with the reasonable hope of obtaining that pleasure we sought in pleasant prospects, cheerful society, fresh air, good cheer and exercise, without the alloy ...
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte
... lounging lazily in our hammocks at Jimamaylan one evening in April. Supper was just ended, and the soldiers in the post were collected in groups here and there spinning yarns to pass away the time, when a Filipino clad only in a loin cloth came down the street at a steadily swinging run and stopped in front of the sentry. ...
— An Epoch in History • P. H. Eley


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