Usually means: Supernatural entity, preys during sleep.
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  1. incubus: Merriam-Webster
  2. incubus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incubus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incubus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incubus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incubus, incubus: Wordnik
  7. incubus: Wiktionary
  8. incubus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. incubus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. incubus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. incubus: Dictionary.com
  12. incubus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Incubus (band), Incubus (demon), Incubus (disambiguation), Incubus (running shoe), Incubus, The Incubus (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Incubus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. incubus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. incubus: Rhymezone
  17. Incubus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. incubus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. incubus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. incubus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. incubus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. incubus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Incubus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. incubus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

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  1. incubus: Legal dictionary

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  1. incubus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. incubus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. incubus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. incubus: Wordcraft Dictionary
  3. incubus: A Word A Day

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
noun:  A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
noun:  (by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
noun:  (entomology) One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.

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