FEBRUARY

(from the Roman Februa, a festival of expiation cr purification), the second month in the year, having twenty-eight days, except in leap-year, when it has. twenty-nine. ‘This latter number of days it had originally among the Romans, until the Senate decreed 403 FECAMP that the seventh month should bear the name of August us, when a day was taken from February and added to August to make it equal to July in nuinber of days.