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A tumor containing dark pigment.

A duel; single combat. "The duello or monomachia." Sir W. Scott.

One who fights in single combat; a duelist.

A monomaniac. [R.]

Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

A person affected by monomania.

Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.

Delirium tremens. Rayer.

See oenomania.

Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy. [R.] Camden.

Of or pertaining to onomancy. [R.]

Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.

A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

Prognostication by the letters of a name.

One versed in the history of names. Southey.

The science of names or of their classification.

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

Onomatopoetic. Whitney.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.