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y and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. Coma Berenices ( Etym: [L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair.

A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

A covenant. [Obs.] Shak.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Comatose.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

Having the nature of glaucoma.

A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.

An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.

A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

See Pharmacognosis.

A gelatin in which the algæ spores have been supposed to vegetate.

A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.