Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, an incubus; a nightmare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Nightmare.
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- noun archaic, medicine
nightmare ;sleep paralysis
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek; meaning "throttler" or "strangler".
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