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One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist.

The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. [Obs.] Shak.

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

One presiding over mysteries. [Obs.]

um, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

Of or pertaining to Narcissus.

of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.

Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.

Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.

white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.

Pertaining to narcotine.

Narcosis; the state of being narcotized. G. Eliot.

To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.

The commander of a fleet. Mitford.

Nautical skill or experience. [Obs.] ir W. Petty.

Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). -- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.