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Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.

A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.

Same as Jemidar.

Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.

Mohammedan.

Mohammedanism.

Roving; nomadic.

See Nomad, n.

A nomad. [R.]

Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.

The state of being a nomad.