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extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. Dunglison.

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope.

The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.

To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon.

xamples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.

that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

hread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.

A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

ation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Ps. cxix. 89. O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. Ps. cxix. 97.…

Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale

lace in the position of an object. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.

gles from, the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne.

An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.

The general signification of on is situation, motion, or condition with respect to contact or support beneath; as: --

d for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the tube, as by speaking or singing into it. A. E. Dolbear.

h illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion. [R.]