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Leap-year
Matched in: Term Leap-year
Bissextile
Bissextile, leap-year. See LEAP-YEAR.
Bissextile
Leap year every fourth year in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the
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Leap year
Matched in: Term Leap year
Year
Matched in: Term Year
Calendar
that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faulty, inasmuch as it
February
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
Mohammedan calendar
a cycle of which the 2d 5th 7th 10th 13th 16th 18th 21st 24th 26th and 29th are leap years having 355 days the others are common having 354 days … A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira hejira 622 a d Thirty of its years constitute a cycle of which the 2d
Calendar month
of 31 days in the remainder of the months, except February, which consists of 28 days, except in leap-year, when the intercalary day is added, making 29 days. See MONTH.
Month
we reckon time, consisting unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight, and in leap year of twenty nine days. The calendar month is also nine days. The calendar month is also called usual,
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