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A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object he…

Like an idiot; foolish.

on, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.

A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.

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

tronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim. From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the nepotism of his order. Milman.

One who practices nepotism.

An annotator. [Obs.]

Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Berkley.

A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.

Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot. [R.]

e, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism.

One of the Protista.

A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.

One of the Protista.