The hot season; the dog-days.
1873. The heated term was at its worst, and after ten days in Omaha I once more took my pilgrim staff for the country, following out the California Trail.—J. H. Beadle, ‘The Undeveloped West,’ p. 65 (Phila., &c.).
1878. The average of the “heated term,” one day with another, is there recorded at eighty-four degrees [at Houston, Texas].—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 431.
