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An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

le given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.

The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. Addison.

n. I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies. Sir J. Reynolds.

lty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

s glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree. [Eng.] Todd.

Inflammation of the parotid glands. Epidemic, or Infectious, parotitis, mumps.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

f time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics. The periodic return of a plant's flowering. Henslow. To influence opinion through the periodical press. Courthope.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6.

e 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -…

Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. [Obs.] Johnson. Popular action (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute. Blackstone.

A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

alendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.