Search the Dictionary

A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.

Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

The Barbary ape.

A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

See Meliphagous.

Emmenagogue.

One who gives a mortgage.

Wandering much. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.

interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.