Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbid impulse to excessive drinking of water.
- noun In pathology, a species of melancholia under the influence of which the sufferer is led to commit suicide by drowning. It sometimes appears in pellagra.
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- noun A
morbid craving forwater .
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Chatsworth, [6] and have discovered that the hydromania is almost as bad as the hydrophobia.
Appendix 1 1796
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