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An amorous composition or poem.

Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Erotic quality.

Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.

Pertaining to exosmose.

Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.

Foreign; not native; exotic. [R.] -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [R.] Rymer.

Belonging to earth; terrestrial. [Obs.] Bailey.

Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.

Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.

A hydrotic medicine.

Hydrotic.

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.

Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.

In a idiotic manner.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.