andro maniac

A woman showing evidence of or suffering from and romania. [See AND ROM AΝΙΑ.] Ăn-drom'-ed-a, s. [Lat. and Gr.] 1. Cla . Myth. A daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Ca iope. It was fabled that she was chained to a rock by order of Jupiter Ammon, and then exposed to the attacks of a monster. Perseus released, and afterwards married her. On her death she was changed into the constellation which bears her name. ( Ovid : Metam ., iv. 670, .) 2. Astron.: A constellation, fancifully supposed to resemble a woman chained. It is in the northern hemisphere, and is surrounded by Ca iopeia, Lacerta, Pegasus, Pisces, Triangulum, and Perseus. It contains the bright stars Almach and Mirach, and Alpherat is on the boundary-line between it and Pegasus, There is in the girdle of Andromeda a fine elliptic nebula, visible to the naked eye, and continually mistaken by the uninitiated for a comet. (Herschel: Astron., § 874.) IMG:content-0512.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] in the bogs of Britain, the desolate character of the localities which it inhabits recalling to cla ical minds of fanciful tendency the barren rock to which Andromeda was chained (see No. 1). The Marsh Andromeda is an evergreen shrub, with beautiful rose-colored drooping flowers. Its shoots poison sheep, as do those of the A. Mariana , which grows in America; and the A. oval i folia , of Nepaul, acts with similar effect upon goats. A. hypnoides , which looks when in leaf like a mo , covers great tracts of ground in the Lapland Alps, and adorns them with its red flowers.