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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

February

/fĕbʹro͞o-ĕr'-ē/ · Feb·ru·a·ry · IPA /ˈfɛb.ɹuˌɛɹi/
01 n. The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eigh…
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    The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.