Dictionary: NYMPHIC-AL – NYS-TAGMUS

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NYMPHIC-AL, a.

Pertaining to nymphs. Pausanias, Trans.

NYMPH-IPA-ROUS, a. [L. aympha and pario.]

Producing nymphs.

NYMPH'ISH, a.

Relating to nymphs; lady-like. Drayton.

NYMPHLIKE, or NYMPHLY, a.

Resembling nymphs. Dryton.

NYMPHO-MA-NY,

Morbid and incontrollable sexual desire in females, breaking the bounds of modest demeanor; always attended with agitation both of body and mind, and constituting a true and proper disease, which is no more under the control of the will than tetanus.

NYS, [ne and is.]

None is; is not. [Obs.] Spenser.    

NYS-TAGMUS, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

Nictation or winking of the eye, as in a drowsy person.