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essive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens.

Manageable. [Obs.] Bacon.

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

One affected with Anglomania.

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

A mania for acquiring books.

One who has a mania for books. -- a.

Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.

See Kleptomania.

A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

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

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

Mad for freedom. [R.]