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n. [ L. auster south wind + -mancy. ] Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; mirror + -mancy. See Catopter. ] (Antiq.) A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, stomach + &unr_; softness, fr. &unr_; soft. ] (Med.) A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gastro- + -mancy: cf. F. gastromancy. ] (Antiq.) (a) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. (b) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; physician + E. mathematician. ] (Hist. Med.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; measure + E. mania. ] A mania for writing verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has metromania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nitro- + magnesite. ] (Chem.) Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in romantic character. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Petro + mastoid. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone; periotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Stromata [ L., a bed covering, Gr. &unr_; a couch or bed. ] 1. (Anat.) (a) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. (b) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; coverlet of a bed, pl. &unr_; patchwork (for such a coverlet), also applied to several miscellaneous writings, fr. &unr_; anything spread out for resting upon, a bed, fr. &unr_; to spread out. ] Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]