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xual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

ious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

busta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, and durable. [Written also saul.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. Addison.

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.

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

the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Scarcely; hardly; barely. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

A morbid induration, as of a gland; stste of being scirrhous.

Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]

An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland. [Obs.]

Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.…

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.

Induration of the tissues. See Sclerma, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.

Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.

Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.

An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.