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Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..

Ephialtes :: Ephialtes (n.) The nightmare.

Pnigalion :: Pnigalion (n.) Nightmare.

Hag-ridden :: Hag-ridden (a.) Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare..

Daymare :: Daymare (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare..

Cacodemon :: Cacodemon (n.) The nightmare.

Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence..

Succula :: Succubus (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2..

Antephialtic :: Antephialtic (n.) A remedy nightmare.

Incubus :: Incubus (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare.

Antephialtic :: Antephialtic (a.) Good against nightmare.

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