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An insane disposition to incendiarism.

Of or pertaining to Roumania.

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. -- Tasman…

Toxiphobia. A. S. Taylor.

A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

One who is affected with tulipomania.

A low delirium common in typhus fever.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc. [R.] Saintsbury.

ack bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.

ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

an aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

. [R.] Shak. To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. [Low] Brain box or case, the bony on cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemb…

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

Same as Dalmania.

he mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.