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Of or relating to asphyxia; as, asphyxial phenomena.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate.

In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

Pertaining to the physics of astronomical science.

The science treating of the physical characteristics of the stars and other heavenly bodies, their chemical constitution, light, heat, atmospheres, etc.

A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

The art of writing with or in gold.

Self-sufficiency. [Obs.] Milton.

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. -- n.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

A description of baths.