(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:54:45

Day"mare` (?), n. [Day + mare incubus.] Med.

A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

Dunglison.

 

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