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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intercalary \In*ter"ca*la*ry\ (?; 277), a. [L. intercalaris intercalarius: cf F. intercalaire See {Intercalate}.] 1. (Chron.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as an intercalary month, day etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See {Bissextile}, n. 2. Introduced or inserted among others additional; supernumerary. ``Intercalary spines.'' --Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. --Beattie. {Intercalary day} (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. --Mayne. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intercalary adj : added or having an addition to make the calender year correspond to the solar year; "Feb. 29 is an intercalary day"; "leap year is an intercalary year"
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