Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Goaded by sexual desire; being in heat: applied to both the period of the rut and the condition of a rutting animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals
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[domestic] animals will allow the approaches of the male only during and immediately after the oestrual period [rut]; that is, just when the egg is recently discharged, and ready for impregnation.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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