ephialtes

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  1. The nightmare. The Author of the Vulgar Errors tells us, that hollow Stones are hung up in Stables to prevent the Night Mare, or Ephialtes. Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 97.
  2. [capitalized] In ornithology, a genus of owls: same as Scops. Keyserling and Blasius, 1840.
  3. [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of ichneumon-flies, of the subfamily Pimplinæ, containing insects of moderate or small size with a long ovipositor, usually parasitic on lepidopterous larvæ. There are about 12 North American and nearly 20 European species. Schrank, 1802.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἐφιάλτης, Æolic ἐπιάλτης, nightmare, literally one who leaps upon, from ἐπί, upon, + ἰάλλειν, verbal adjective ἰαλτός, send, throw.
 

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