oestrum

Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet: their love is ardent; but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination.

Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

But it is after Mr. White has been bitten by the _oestrum_ of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

Driven by the oestrum of a Yo-Semite pilgrimage, the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

-- The removal of the ovaries, or ovariotomy, is practised for the purpose of rendering the female more useful for meat production, prolonging the period of lactation, overcoming vicious habits and preventing oestrum or heat.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Leading from the ovaries, but connected with the surface of these glands only during the period of oestrum or heat, are the fallopian tubules.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

[109] The actual period of the menstrual flow corresponds, in Heape's terminology, to the congestive stage, or _pro-oestrum_, in female animals; the _oestrus_, or period of sexual desire, immediately follows the

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

When, however, the real divine oestrum descends upon him, he discards those follies.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Both were pursued by an oestrum corresponding to the intellectual perturbations which closed the sixteenth century, so different from the idyllic calm that rested upon

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

In process of time, however, the period of oestrum is attended by a greater degree of fever and enlargement of the teats, and at length some diminutive hardened nuclei, not exceeding in size the tip of a finger, are felt within one of the teats.

The Dog William Youatt 1811

Two or three years may pass, and at almost every return of the period of oestrum, there will be some degree of enlargement or inflammation of the teats.

The Dog William Youatt 1811