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Hyperkinesis :: Hyperkinesis (n.) Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

Hyperkinetic :: Hyperkinetic (a.) Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Tractor :: Tractor (n.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism..

Perking :: Perking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Per.

Perkinism :: Perkinism (n.) A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy..

Perkin :: Perkin (n.) A kind of weak perry.

Nipperkin :: Nipperkin (n.) A small cup.

Tractoration :: Tractoration (n.) See Perkinism.

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