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Secular Games – Selective Draft Law

Secular Games

a great festival, probably of Etruscan origin, anciently celebrated at Rome to mark the commencement of a new sæculum or generation. In 249 в. c. it was decreed that the secular games should be celebrated every hundredth year after that date; but this decree was frequently disregarded, and they were celebrated at very irregular intervals.

Secularism

the name given, about 1846, by George J. Holyoake to an ethical system founded on natural morality.

Sedative

in medicine a remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and which assuages pain. Sedatives are divided according to the parts on which they act into external or local.

Sedge Warbler

the Acrocephalus schænobænus, a small European singing bird. Its total length is rather less than five inches; tail comparatively short; upper surface rufous-brown, clouded with a darker shade; breast, belly, and lower tail coverts pale buff. The eggs are five or six in number, pale yellowish-brown.

Sedley

SIR CHARLES, an English land, in 1639.

He is author of the favorite song "Phyllis." He wrote four comedies, among them "The Mulberry died Aug. 20, 1701. Garden" (1686) and two tragedies. He

Seeding

sowing either in drills or broadcast, an operation formerly conducted altogether by hand. Machines are now in use adapted to sowing the finest grass seeds or the most bulky grains and seeds.

Seer

a weight in India, formerly varying in different parts of the country, but by an act of the Anglo-Indian Government (Oct. 31, 1871), the seer was adopted as the primary standard of weight, and made equivalent to a kilogramme.

Segregation

in geology, that process in nature by which, when a mixed mineral mass has been deposited or accumulated, and left to the influence of the chemical forces always operating, certain minerals tend to separate themselves from the mass, and collect into natural cracks or blisters, either previously existing or formed during the operation.

Seir Fish

or SEER FISH, the Cybium gutatum, one of the Scombridæ from East Indian seas. In form and size it resembles a salmon, and its flesh, though white, is firm, and very similar to salmon in flavor.

SEJANUS

Seismology

the study of earthquakes. Though seismology can scarcely be said to have existed before the early part of the 19th century, it has a rapidly growing bibliography, and is accumulating a store of facts and observations on which generalizations may be based. See EARTHQUAKE.

Sel D'Or

a double hyposulphite of gold and sodium, used in photography for toning positive paper-proofs.

Selective Draft Law

a distinctive name given to the measures passed by the United States Congress in 1917, providing for the drafting of men of military age into the armed forces, for service in the World War. See UNITED