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Metaleptic. -- Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]

A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.

A fossil millepore.

ng upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. [R.] De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied. [Poetic]

Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.

An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

See Paraleipsis.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

In a proleptical manner.

The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock.

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. [R.] Addison.

False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.

A wireless telephone. -- Ra`di*o*te*leph"o*ny (#), n.