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Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [R.] Bp. Barlow.

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

The quality or state of being smothery.

In a smothering manner.

Tending to smother; stifling.

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.

A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.

Deprived of a mother; motherless.

A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

y the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not…