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d. [Also salique.] Salic law. (a) A code of laws formed by the Salian Franks in the fifth century. By one provision of this code women were excluded from the inheritance of landed property. (b) Specifically, in modern times, a law supposed to be a special application of the above-mentioned provision, in accordance with…

A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century. [Written also salade.] Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. Latimer.

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

use of sanitary measures; hygiene. How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century. H. Hartshorne.

"Heliand", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.

low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. Schneiderian membrane, the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.

A century. [Obs.] Hammond.

Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. Addison.

One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar.

sty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. J. H. Newman.

Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

ld gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value. [Written also chequin, and zeq…

sink out of sight; to come to an end. Ere the weary sun set in the west. Shak. Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning. Fuller.

major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

o be like a silhouette. [Recent] A flock of roasting vultures silhouetted on the sky. The Century.

Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law. Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.

dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

ability of. See 4th Size, 4. [Slang, U.S.] We had to size up our fellow legislators. The Century.