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ility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

ep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.

to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

See Comanches.

An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus.

which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.

f a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

lass, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.

Sarcoma.

old winds by a forest or hill. They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands. Macaulay.

ere barristers, who wear stuff gowns. [Eng.] -- Silk grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa comata) of the Western United States, which has very long silky awns. The name is also sometimes given to various species of the genera Aqave and Yucca. -- Silk moth (Zoöl.), the adult moth of any silkworm. See Silkworm. -- Silk…

A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

.), a trumpet shell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. -- Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The…

Same as Turcoman.

r and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice. -- Yellow bark, calisaya bark. -- Yellow bass (Zoöl.), a North American fresh-water bass (Morone interrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It is yellow, with several more o…