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noun

April n.

The fourth month of the year.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"April" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wentworth's erect iron-grey figure that appeared in the doorway, half leading in, half pushing before her, the unfortunate cause of all the commotion—Rosa Elsworthy herself. A change had passed upon the little girl's rosy, dewy, April beauty. Her pretty dark eyes were enlarged and anxious, and full of tears; her cheeks had paled out of their sweet colour, her red lips were pressed tightly together. Passion and shame had set their marks upon the child's forehead—lightly, it is true, but still the traces were there; ...

— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... surprises were pending, Mrs. Weatherstone departed to New York—to Europe; and was gone some months. In the spring she returned, in April—which is late June in Orchardina. She called upon Diantha and her mother at ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... drizzling shower came on, and Mary watched and wept in vain, for Ella did not come. The next morning was bright and beautiful as April mornings often are, and at as early an hour as was consistent with Mrs. Campbell's habits, her carriage was before the door, and herself and Ella seated within it. The little lady was not in the best of humors, for she and her maid had quarrelled about her dress; Ella ...

— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes

... been when the bell of that convent was ringing the Angelus that Chaucer and his pilgrims entered Dartford on that April evening so long ago. As they came down the steep hill, before they entered the town, they would pass an almshouse or hospital, midway upon the hill, a leper-house in all likelihood, dedicated in honour of St Mary Magdalen. Something ...

— England of My Heart--Spring • Edward Hutton

... hot at three and hotter still at four, the April dust seeming to enmesh the sun and give it forth again as a world-old joke forever played on an eternity of afternoons. But at half past four a first layer of quiet fell and the shades lengthened under the awnings and ...

— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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