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Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

Scotoscope :: Scotoscope (n.) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.

Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony..

Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness..

Glimmer :: Glimmer (n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam..

Fainthearted :: Fainthearted (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

Phosphorus :: Phosphorus (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for man

Faint :: Faint (v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n..

Diskless :: Diskless (a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope..

Appall :: Appall (v. i.) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.

Wanhope :: Wanhope (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..

Weak-hearted :: Weak-hearted (a.) Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.

Swooning :: Swoon (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

Craven :: Craven (a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.

Faint :: Faint (superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst..

Lipothymous :: Lipothymous (a.) Pertaining, or given, to swooning; fainting..

Swelt :: Swelt (v. i.) To faint; to swoon.

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