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Onomatopoeia.

A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

Paronomasia. [R.] B. Jonson.

That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

The power of exciting the organs of the brain by magnetic or mesmeric influence.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

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

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

Paronomasia; punning.

A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. -- a.

on. [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 rese…

One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.