Chīs'leū, n.

n. [Heb. kisleū, Gr. Χασλεὺ, either from kāsal, Ar. kasila, to be torpid or cold, or for Aramaic kisla, a heap of mud or mire. Cf. Ger. hornung, February, literally, month of mud.] The ninth month of the Jewish year, answering to a part of November and a part of December, in the modern division of the year.