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stubble (medicine)


stubble


The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.

<zoology> " Stubble goose, the graylag goose. Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

Origin: OE. Stobil, stoble, OF. Estouble, estuble, F. Etuele, LL. Stupla, stupula, L. Stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. Stopped, OHG. Stupfila. Cf. Stipule.

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mesmerism (iou)



mesmerism noun. L18.
[from F. A. Mesmer, Austrian physician (1734-1815), who popularized the practice + -ISM.]
The process or practice of inducing a hypnotic state, usu. accompanied by insensibility to pain and muscular rigidity, by the influence of an operator over the will of a patient; the state so induced; fig. fascination. Also, belief in this process; an influence producing such a state. Formerly also called animal magnetism, magnetism.
mesmerist noun a person who practises mesmerism; (occas.) a believer in mesmerism: M19.