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One who is versed in hypnology.

A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a person to hypnotic influences.

Supervention of sleep.

Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic 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…

The act or process of producing hypnotism.

To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

One who hypnotizes.

The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

Hypochondria. [Colloq.]

, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.

Of or pertaining to a hypoarion.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.

Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.

A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.