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thing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.

A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body. -- Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic, a.

An idioelectric substance.

Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

The state of not coexisting. [Obs.] Locke.

Not coördinate.

Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

, and Gray.] (Bot.) A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine.

an acid obtained by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of Ipomoea purga), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid.

See Johannes.

A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [Colloq.] It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.

A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.

A kickshaws. Milton.

See Kitchen middens.

Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.

The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

A supposed new metallic element. It is said to have been discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a silver-white color, and malleable.

White and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.

An albino. [Also written leucoethiops.]