Myosis: alternatives and connections

A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-conti…

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or…

The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity…

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It prod…

A pupil; a student.

A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, bu…