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a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.

A yearling; a bird of the year.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

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

A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object he…

The act or process of producing hypnotism.

To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

One who hypnotizes.

Unknown. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys. -- n.

To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together. Fuller.

A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France.

Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.

A bond of union; a connection; a tie. "With nuptial knot." Shak. Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed. Bp. Hall.

The cloudberry (Rudus Chamæmorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.

Free from knots; without knots. "Silver firs with knotless trunks." Congreve.