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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 657 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HONEYMOON , the first See also:

MONTH
MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month after See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage. See also:

Lord See also:

Avebury in his Origin of See also:

CIVILIZATION

Civilization suggests that the seclusion usually associated with this See also:

period is a survival of marriage by See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture, and answers to the period during which the See also:

HUSBAND

husband kept his wife in retirement, to prevent her from appealing to her relatives ' The See also:

young of this See also:

SPECIES

species has the See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat yellow. s W. A. See also:

Forbes published a careful monograph of this genus in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1879, pp. 256-279. ' This See also:

BIRD

bird, according to See also:

Sir See also:

Walter See also:

Buller (Birds of New See also:

ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand, p. 88), while uttering its See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild notes, indulges in much gesticulation, which adds to the suggested resemblance. It has See also:

GREAT

great See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

MIMICRY

mimicry, and is a favourite cage-bird both with the natives and colonists. On one occasion, says Buller, he had addressed a large See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of Maories on a See also:

MATTER

matter of considerable See also:

POLITICAL

political importance, when " immediately on the conclusion of my speech, and before the old See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief to whom my arguments were chiefly addressed had See also:

time to reply, a tui, whose netted cage hung to a rafter_ overhead, responded in a clear, emphatic way, ' Tito!' (false). The circumstance naturally caused much merriment among my See also:

AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience, and quite upset the zravity of the See also:

VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

venerable old chief, Nepia Taratoa. ' Friend,' said he, laughing, ' your arguments are very See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good; but my mokai is a very See also:

wise bird. and he is not yet convinced!' " for See also:

RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release.

Others suggest that as the See also:

moon commences to wane as soon as it is at its full, so does the mutual See also:

AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection of the wedded pair, the " honeymoon " (with this derivation) not necessarily referring to any definite period of time.

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