Tammuz

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thammuz \Tham"muz\, Tammuz \Tam"muz\, n. [Heb. thamm[=u]z.]
     1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the
        Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity
        has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician
        Adon, or Adonis. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, --
        supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Tammuz
       n 1: the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the
            ecclesiastic year (in June and July) [syn: {Thammuz}]
       2: Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation;
          consort of Inanna [syn: {Dumuzi}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tammuz
     a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the
     Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean
     calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the
     month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. At
     this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud
     lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping
     for Tammuz" (Ezek. 8:14).
     
       The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of
     the Hebrew calendar.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tammuz, abstruse; concealed; consumed