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English Dictionary: February by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
February
n
  1. the month following January and preceding March [syn: February, Feb]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   February \Feb"ru*a*ry\, n. [L. Februarius, orig., the month of
      expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great
      feast of expiation and purification was held, fr. februa,
      pl., the Roman festival or purification; akin to februare to
      purify, expiate.]
      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.
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