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February noun. ME.
[Old French feverier (mod. fevrier), from late Latin (Proto-Romance) febrarius for Latin februarius, from februa (neut. pl.) a Roman festival of purification held on 15 February. Later refash. after Latin.]
The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, containing twenty-eight days, except in a leap year when it has twenty-nine. Also fig., with allusion to the rain and melting snows considered characteristic of the month in Britain and elsewhere in the northern hemisphere. Also (popularly) called February fill-dyke (referring to its rain and snows).
attrib.: Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing What's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?