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n by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.

Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.

Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

See Lucubrate. [Obs.] Blount.

See Lucubration. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

The act or practice of lying on the ground. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)

Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.

Serving for incubation.

To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

s the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

omen by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.

To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.