MONSTERMon"ster, a.
Defn: Monstrous in size. Pope.
MONSTERMon"ster, v. t.
Defn: To make monstrous. [Obs.] Shak.
MONSTRANCEMon"strance, n. Etym: [LL. monstrantia, fr. L. monstrare to show: cf.OF. monstrance. See Monster.] (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
MONSTRATIONMon*stra"tion, n. Etym: [L. monstratio.]
Defn: The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.]A certain monstration. Grafton.
MONSTROSITYMon*stros"i*ty, n.; pl. Monstrosities. Etym: [Cf. F. monstruosité.See Monstrous.]
Defn: The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).
MONSTROUS Mon"strous, a. Etym: [OE. monstruous, F. monstrueux, fr. L. monstruosus, fr. monstrum. See Monster.]
1. Marvelous; strange. [Obs.]
2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love … is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor.
3. Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; — said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
4. Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak.
5. Abounding in monsters. [R.] Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton.
MONSTROUSMon"strous, adv.
Defn: Exceedingly; very; very much. "A monstrous thick oil on thetop." Bacon.And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryden.
MONSTROUSLYMon"strous*ly, adv.
Defn: In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden.
MONSTROUSNESSMon"strous*ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary. Shak.
MONSTRUOSITYMon`stru*os"i*ty, n.
Defn: Monstrosity. [Obs.] Shak.
MONSTRUOUSMon"stru*ous, a.
Defn: Monstrous. [Obs.]
MONTMont, n. Etym: [F. See Mount, n.]
Defn: Mountain.
MONTAIGNEMon"taigne, n.
Defn: A mountain. [Obs.]
MONTANICMon*tan"ic, a. Etym: [L. montanus, fr. mons, montis, mountain. SeeMount, n.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains.
MONTANISTMon"ta*nist, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life. — Mon`ta*nis"tic, Mon`ta*nis"tic*al, a.
MONTANT Mon"tant, n. Etym: [F.,prop., mounting, fr. monter to mount, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount.]
1. (Fencing)
Defn: An upward thrust or blow. Shak.
2. (Arch.)
Defn: An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile. [R.] See Stile.
MONT DE PIETEMont" de pi`é`té". Etym: [F., fr. It. monte di pietà mount of piety.]
Defn: One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; — called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.
MONTE Mon"te, n. Etym: [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.]
Defn: A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
MONTE-ACIDMonte`-ac"id, n. Etym: [F. monter to raise + acide acid.] (Chem.)
Defn: An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
MONTEITHMon*teith", n.
Defn: See Monteth.
MONTE-JUSMonte"-jus", n. [F., fr. monter to bring up + jus juice.]
Defn: An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
MONTEMMon"tem, n. Etym: [L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, n.]
Defn: A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
MONTEROMon*te"ro, n. Etym: [Sp. montera a hunting cap, fr. montero ahuntsman, monte a mountain, forest, L. mons, montis, mountain. SeeMount, n.]
Defn: An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon.
MONTESSORI METHODMon`tes*so"ri Meth"od. (Pedagogy)
Defn: A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).
MONTETH; MONTEITHMon*teth", Mon*teith", n.
Defn: A vessel in which glasses are washed; — so called from thename of the inventor.New things produce new words, and thus Monteth Has by one vesselsaved his name from death. King.
MONTGOLFIERMont`gol"fier, n.
Defn: A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; — so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
MONTH Month, n. Etym: [OE. month, moneth, AS. mon, mona; akin to mona moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG. manod, Icel. manu, mana, Goth. meno. *272. See Moon.]
Defn: One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, — whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed. Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the common law is generally cahanged, and a month is declared to mean a calendar month. Cooley's Blackstone. A month mind. (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. — Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. — Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36 s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7 s. — Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1 s.
MONTHLINGMonth"ling, n.
Defn: That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.]Wordsworth.
MONTHLYMonth"ly, a.
1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine. Monthly nurse, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.
MONTHLYMonth"ly, n.; pl. Monthlies (.
Defn: A publication which appears regularly once a month.
MONTHLYMonth"ly, adv.
1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly. Shak.
2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [Obs.] Middleton.
MONTICLE Mon"ti*cle, n. Etym: [L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. monticule. See Mount, n.]
Defn: A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.[Written also monticule.]
MONTICULATEMon*tic"u*late, a.
Defn: Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
MONTICULEMon"ti*cule, n.
Defn: See Monticle.
MONTICULOUSMon*tic"u*lous, a.
Defn: Monticulate.
MONTIFORMMon"ti*form, a. Etym: [L. mons, montis, mountain + -form.]
Defn: Resembling a mountain in form.
MONTIGENOUS Mon*tig"e*nous, a. Etym: [L. montigena; mons, montis, mountain + the root of gignere to beget.]
Defn: Produced on a mountain.
MONTOIRMon`toir", n. Etym: [F., fr. monter to mount. See Montant.]
Defn: A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
MONTONMon"ton, n. Etym: [Sp.] (Mining)
Defn: A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
MONTREMon"tre, n. [F., show, show case, organ case.]
1. (Organ Building) A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes "shown" as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
2. A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged.
MONTROSSMon*tross", n.
Defn: See Matross. [Obs.]
MONTRUEMon"true, n. Etym: [F., fr. monter to mount. See Montoir.]
Defn: That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.
MONUMENT Mon"u*ment, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.]
1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what ispast; a memorial.Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. Philips.Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak.
2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.
3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.
Syn.— Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
MONUMENTALMon`u*men"tal, a. Etym: [L. monumentalis: cf. F. monumental.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." Milton. A work outlasting monumental brass. Pope.
MONUMENTALLYMon`u*men"tal*ly, adv.
1. By way of memorial.
2. By means of monuments.
MONUREIDMon*u"re*id, n. Etym: [Mon- + ureid.] (Chem.)
Defn: Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]
MOOMoo, a., adv., & n.
Defn: See Mo. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOO Moo, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooing.] Etym: [Of imitative origin.]
Defn: To make the noise of a cow; to low; — child's word.
MOOMoo, n.
Defn: The lowing of a cow.
MOOD Mood, n. Etym: [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.]
1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
2. (Gram.)
Defn: Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
MOODMood, n. Etym: [OE. mood, mod, AS. modmind, feeling, heart, courage;akin to OS. & OFries. mod, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage,Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mo wrath, Goth. mods.]
Defn: Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard topassion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.Till at the last aslaked was mood. Chaucer.Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak.The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.
MOODERMoo"der, n.
Defn: Mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOODILYMood"i*ly, adv.
Defn: In a moody manner.
MOODINESSMood"i*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
MOODIRMoo"dir, n. Etym: [Ar. mudir.]
Defn: The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]
MOODISHMood"ish, a.
Defn: Moody. [Obs.]
MOODISHLYMood"ish*ly, adv.
Defn: Moodily. [Obs.]
MOODY Mood"y, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.] Etym: [AS. modig courageous.]
1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.
Syn.— Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
MOOLAH; MOOLLAHMoo"lah, Mool"lah, n.
Defn: See Mollah.
MOOLLEYMool"ley, n.
Defn: Same as Mulley.
MOON Moon, n. Etym: [OE. mone, AS. mona; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. mano, G. mond, Icel. mani, Dan. maane, Sw. måne, Goth. mena, Lith. men, L. mensis month, Gr. mas moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. ma to measure), from its serving to measure the time. *271. Cf. Mete to measure, Menses, Monday, Month.]
1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. Cowper.
2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.
4. (Fort.)
Defn: A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a)(Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three orfour weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia.— Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.— Moon face, a round face like a full moon.— Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] — Moon month, a lunar month.— Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicagoarborea). See Medic.— Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, beingsometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
MOONMoon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooning.]
Defn: To expose to the rays of the moon. If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. Holland.
MOONMoon, v. i.
Defn: To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstractedmanner.Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.
MOONBEAMMoon"beam`, n.
Defn: A ray of light from the moon.
MOONBLINDMoon"blind`, a.
Defn: Dim-sighted; purblind.
MOONBLINKMoon"blink`, n.
Defn: A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; — sometimes called nyctalopia.
MOONCALFMoon"calf`, n.
1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.
MOON-CULMINATINGMoon"-cul"mi*na`ting, a.
Defn: Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; — said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
MOONEDMooned, a.
Defn: Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned horns." "Mooned Ashtaroth." Milton.
MOONERMoon"er, n.
Defn: One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck.[R.] Dickens.
MOONERYMoon"er*y, n.
Defn: Conduct of one who moons. [R.]
MOONETMoon"et, n.
Defn: A little moon. [R.] Bp. Hall.
MOON-EYEMoon"-eye`, n.
1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.
MOON-EYEDMoon"-eyed`, a.
Defn: Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
MOON-FACEDMoon"-faced`, a.
Defn: Having a round, full face.
MOONFISH Moon"fish`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); — called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); — called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. (c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
MOONFLOWER Moon"flow`er, n. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy; — called also moon daisy. (b) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
MOONGMoong, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Mung.
MOONGLADEMoon"glade`, n.
Defn: The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]
MOONIEMoo"nie, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European goldcrest.
MOONISHMoon"ish, a.
Defn: Like the moon; variable.Being but a moonish youth. Shak.
MOONLESSMoon"less, a.
Defn: Being without a moon or moonlight.
MOONLIGHTMoon`light`, n.
Defn: The light of the moon.— a.
Defn: Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
MOONLIGHTER Moon"light`er, n. One who follows an occupation or pastime by moonlight; as: (a) A moonshiner. (b) In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night. (c) A serenader by moonlight. [Local, U. S.]
MOONLINGMoon"ling, n.
Defn: A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]
MOONLITMoon"lit`, a.
Defn: Illumined by the moon. "The moonlit sea." Moore. "Moonlit dells." Lowell.
MOONRAKERMoon"rak`er, n. (Naut.)
Defn: Same as Moonsail.
MOONRISEMoon"rise`, n.
Defn: The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
MOONSAILMoon"sail`, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H.Dana, Jr.
MOONSEEDMoon"seed`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; — so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
MOONSETMoon"set`, n.
Defn: The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
MOONSHEE Moon"shee, n. Etym: [Hind. munishi, fr. Ar. munishi a writer, author, secretary, tutor.]
Defn: A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. [India]
MOONSHINEMoon"shine`, n.
1. The light of the moon.
2. Hence, show without substance or reality.
3. A month. [R.] Shak.
4. A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]
MOONSHINEMoon"shine`, a.
Defn: Moonlight. [R.] Clarendon.
MOONSHINERMoon"shin`er, n.
Defn: A person engaged in illicit distilling; — so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]
MOONSHININGMoon"shin`ing, n.
Defn: Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]
MOONSHINYMoon"shin`y, a.
Defn: Moonlight. [Colloq.]I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.
MOONSTONEMoon"stone`, n. (Min.)
Defn: A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
MOONSTRICKENMoon"strick`en, a.
Defn: See Moonstruck.
MOONSTRUCKMoon"struck`, a.
1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. "Moonstruck madness." Milton.
3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
MOONWORT Moon"wort`, n. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. (b) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; — so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
MOONYMoon"y, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake.
2. Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton.
3. Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.
MOOR Moor, n. Etym: [F. More, Maure, L. Maurus a Moor, a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Gr. Morris a dance, Morocco.]
1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
2. (Hist.)
Defn: Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.
MOORMoor, n. Etym: [OE. mor, AS. mor moor, morass; akin to D. moer moor,G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere. See Mere a lake.]
1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.
2. A game preserve consisting of moorland. Moor buzzard (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] — Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. — Moor cock (Zoöl.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. — Moor coot. (Zoöl.) See Gallinule. — Moor fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse (Lagopus Scoticus). (b) The European heath grouse. See under Heath. — Moor game. (Zoöl.) Same as Moor fowl (above). — Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe. — Moor hawk (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. — Moor hen. (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the moor fowl. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). — Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). — Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).
MOORMoor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moored; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooring.] Etym:[Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See Mar.]
1. (Naut.)
Defn: To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
2. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. Brougham.
MOORMoor, v. i.
Defn: To cast anchor; to become fast.On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.
MOORAGEMoor"age, n.
Defn: A place for mooring.
MOORBALLMoor"ball`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Ægagropila) which forms a globular mass.
MOORBANDMoor"band`, n.
Defn: See Moorpan.
MOORESSMoor"ess, n.
Defn: A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
MOORINGMoor"ing, n.
1. The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
2. That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
3. pl.
Defn: The place or condition of a ship thus confined.And the tossed bark in moorings swings. Moore.Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used asan anchor for mooring vessels.
MOORISHMoor"ish, a. Etym: [From 2d Moor.]
Defn: Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens."Thomson.
MOORISHMoor"ish, a. Etym: [See 1st Moor, and cf. Morris, Moresque.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors. Moorish architecture, the style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. under Moresque.
MOORLANDMoor"land, n. Etym: [AS. morland.]
Defn: Land consisting of a moor or moors.
MOORPANMoor"pan`, n. Etym: [Cf. Hard pan, under Hard.]
Defn: A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
MOORSTONEMoor"stone`, n.
Defn: A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
MOORUKMoo"ruk, n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
MOORYMoor"y, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.Mortimer.As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.
MOORYMoor"y, n.
Defn: A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour (Cyc of India).
MOOSEMoose, n. Etym: [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse.Mackenzie.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. — Moose deer. Same as Moose. — Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.
MOOSEWOOD Moose"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum). (b) Leatherwood.
MOOTMoot, v.
Defn: See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOOTMoot, n. (Shipbuilding)
Defn: A ring for gauging wooden pins.
MOOTMoot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] Etym:[OE. moten, motien, AS. motan to meet or assemble for conversation,to discuss, dispute, fr. mot, gemot, a meeting, an assembly; akin toIcel. mot, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.]
1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W. Hamilton.
2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. Sir T. Elyot.
MOOTMoot, v. i.
Defn: To argue or plead in a supposed case. There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson.
MOOTMoot, n. Etym: [AS. mot, gemot, a meeting; — usually in comp.][Written also mote.]
1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; — usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.
2. Etym: [From Moot, v.]
Defn: A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. Sir T. Elyot. Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question. Dryden. — Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. — Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.
MOOTMoot, a.
Defn: Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
MOOTABLEMoot"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being mooted.
MOOTERMoot"er, n.
Defn: A disputer of a mooted case.
MOOT-HALL; MOOT-HOUSEMoot"-hall`, Moot"-house`, n. Etym: [AS. moth.]
Defn: A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.
MOOT-HILLMoot"-hill`, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; — called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.
MOOTMANMoot"man, n.; pl. Mootmen (. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
MOPMop, n. Etym: [See Mope.]
Defn: A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!"Beau. & Fl.
MOPMop, v. i.
Defn: To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.
MOP Mop, n. Etym: [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF. mappe a napkin (see Map, Napkin).]
1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]
3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Mop head. (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.]
MOPMop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Mopping.]
Defn: To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
MOPBOARDMop"board`, n. (Carp.)
Defn: A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
MOPEMope, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moped; p. pr. & vb. n. Moping.] Etym: [Cf.D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.]
Defn: To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton.A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.
MOPEMope, v. t.
Defn: To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]
MOPEMope, n.
Defn: A dull, spiritless person. Burton.
MOPE-EYEDMope"-eyed`, a.
Defn: Shortsighted; purblind.
MOPEFULMope"ful, a.
Defn: Mopish. [R.]
MOPISHMop"ish, a.
Defn: Dull; spiritless; dejected.— Mop"ish*ly, adv.— Mop"ish*ness, n.
MOPLAHMop"lah, n. Etym: [Malayalam mapplia.]
Defn: One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
MOPPETMop"pet, n. Etym: [From 3d Mop.]
1. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A long-haired pet dog.
MOPSEY; MOPSYMop"sey, Mop"sy, n.
1. A moppet.
2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
MOPSICALMop"si*cal, a.
Defn: Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
MOPSTICKMop"stick`, n.
Defn: The long handle of a mop.
MOPUSMo"pus, n.
Defn: A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.
MOQUETTEMo*quette", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
MORAMor"a, n. Etym: [It.]
Defn: A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, — much played by Italians of the lower classes.
MORAMo"ra, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
MORAMo"ra, n. Etym: [L.] (Rom. & Civil Law)
Defn: Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
MORAINE Mo*raine", n. Etym: [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. mürbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. mla to relax.] (Geol.)
Defn: An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.
Note: If the moranie is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moranie; if at the side, a lateral moranie; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moranie. See Illust. of Glacier. In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral moranies of the branches of the glacier. A ground moranie is one beneath the mass of ice.
MORAINICMo*rain"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a moranie.
MORAL Mor"al, a. Etym: [F., fr. It. moralis, fr. mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct.]
1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.
2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life. The wiser and more moral part of mankind. Sir M. Hale.
3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. J. Edwards.
4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; — opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales. Moral agent, a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. — Moral certainty, a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt. — Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. — Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded. — Moral play, an allegorical play; a morality. [Obs.] — Moral sense, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law. — Moral theology, theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry.
MORALMor"al, n.
1. The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; — usually in the plural. Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them. South.
2. The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. Shak. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. Macaulay.
3. A morality play. See Morality, 5.
MORALMor"al, v. i.
Defn: To moralize. [Obs.] Shak.
MORALEMo`rale", n. Etym: [F. See Moral, a.]
Defn: The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
MORALERMor"al*er, n.
Defn: A moralizer. [Obs.] Shak.
MORALISMMor"al*ism, n.
Defn: A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.
MORALISTMor"al*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. moraliste.]
1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.
2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; — sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Hammond.
MORALITY Mo*ral"i*ty, n.; pl. Moralities. Etym: [L. moralitas: cf. F. moralité.]
1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right. The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it. South.
2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right. Of moralitee he was the flower. Chaucer. I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration. Locke.
3. The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of … ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.
4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII. Strutt.
6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.] Taketh the morality thereof, good men. Chaucer.
MORALIZATIONMor`al*i*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. moralisation.]
1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
MORALIZEMor"al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moralized; p. pr. & vb. n.Moralizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. moraliser.]
1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to drawa moral from.This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange.Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.
2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to. While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth.
3. To render moral; to correct the morals of. It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country. D. Ramsay.
4. To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse. Good and bad stars moralize not our actions. Sir T. Browne.
MORALIZEMor"al*ize, v. i.
Defn: To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
MORALIZERMor"al*i`zer, n.
Defn: One who moralizes.
MORALLYMor"al*ly, adv.
1. In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South.
2. According to moral rules; virtuously. "To live morally." Dryden.
3. In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
4. In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability. It is morally impossible for an hypocrite to keep himself long upon his guard. L'Estrange.
MORASSMo*rass", n. Etym: [OE. marras, mareis (perh. through D. moeras), fr.F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any body of water; butperh. influenced by some German word. See Mere a lake, and cf.Marsh.]
Defn: A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.)See Bog ore, under Bog.
MORASSY mo*rass"y, a.
Defn: Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.
MORATEMo"rate, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A salt of moric acid.
MORATIONMo*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. moratio.]
Defn: A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
MORATORIUMMor`a*to"ri*um, n. [NL. See Moratory.] (Law)
Defn: A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
MORATORYMor"a*to*ry, a. [L. moratorius delaying, fr. morari to delay.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
MORAVIANMo*ra"vi*an, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. SeeMoravian, n.
MORAVIANMo*ra"vi*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of a religious sect called the United Brethern (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
MORAVIANISMMo*ra"vi*an*ism, n.
Defn: The religious system of the Moravians.
MORAYMor"ay, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A muræna.
MORBID Mor"bid, a. Etym: [L. morbidus, fr. morbus disease; prob. akin to mori to die: cf. F. morbide, It. morbido. See Mortal.]
1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.
2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Syn. — Diseased; sickly; sick. — Morbid, Diseased. Morbid is sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc.
MORBIDEZZAMor`bi*dez"za, n. Etym: [It., softness, delicacy. See Morbid.]
1. (Fine Arts)
Defn: Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy. Ludden.
MORBIDITYMor*bid"i*ty, n.
1. The quality or state of being morbid.
2. Morbid quality; disease; sickness. C. Kingsley.
3. Amount of disease; sick rate.
MORBIDLYMor"bid*ly, adv.
Defn: In a morbid manner.
MORBIDNESSMor"bid*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.
MORBIFIC; MORBIFICAL Mor*bif"ic, Mor*bif"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. morbus disease + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. morbifique. See -fy.]
Defn: Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
MORBILLOUS Mor*bil"lous, a. Etym: [LL. morbilli measles, dim. of L. morbus disease: cf. F. morbilleux.]
Defn: Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.
MORBOSEMor*bose", a. Etym: [L. morbosus, fr. morbus disease.]
Defn: Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.
MORBOSITYMor*bos"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. morbositas.]
Defn: A diseased state; unhealthiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
MORCEAUMor`ceau", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A bit; a morsel.
MORDACIOUS Mor*da"cious, a. Etym: [L. mordax, -acis, fr. mordere, morsum, to bite. See Morsel.]
Defn: Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic;severe; scathing.— Mor*da"cious*ly, adv.
MORDACITYMor*dac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. mordacitas: cf. F. mordacité. SeeMordacious.]
Defn: The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. Bacon.
MORDANTMor"dant, a. Etym: [F., p.pr. of mordere to bite; L. mordere. SeeMorsel.]
1. Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
2. (Dyeing & Calico Printing)
Defn: Serving to fix colors.
MORDANTMor"dant, n. Etym: [F., originally, biting.]
1. Any corroding substance used in etching.
2. (Dyeing & Calico Printing)
Defn: Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
3. (Gilding)
Defn: Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
MORDANTMor"dant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mordanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mordanting.]
Defn: To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
MORDANTLYMor"dant*ly, adv.
Defn: In the manner of a mordant.
MORDENTEMor*den"te, n. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)
Defn: An embellishment resembling a trill.
MORDICANCYMor"di*can*cy, n.
Defn: A biting quality; corrosiveness. [R.] Evelyn.
MORDICANT Mor"di*cant, a. Etym: [L. mordicans, p.pr. of mordicare to bite, fr. mordere: cf. F. mordicant.]
Defn: Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. [R.] Boyle.
MORDICATIONMor`di*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. mordicatio.]
Defn: The act of biting or corroding; corrosion. [R.] Bacon.
MORDICATIVEMor"di*ca*tive, a. Etym: [L. mordicativus.]
Defn: Biting; corrosive. [R.] Holland.
MOREMore, n. Etym: [AS. mor. See Moor a waste.]
Defn: A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
MORE More, n. Etym: [AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.]
Defn: A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MORE More, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most (.] Etym: [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. mara, and (as neut. and adv.) ma; akin to D. meer, OS. mer, G. mehr, OHG. mero, mer, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. sq. root103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.]
1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. He gat more money. Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.
Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, — a, the, this, their, etc., — which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more. Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. Spenser. The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. Acts xix. 32. Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. Shak.
(b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; — with the plural. The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter than we. Ex. i. 9.
2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer. With open arms received one poet more. Pope.
MOREMore, n.
1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. Ex. xvi. 17.
2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount. They that would have more and more can never have enough. L'Estrange. O! That pang where more than madness lies. Byron. Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it. — No more, not anything more; nothing in addition. — The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] Shak. "All cried, both less and more." Chaucer.
MOREMore, adv.
1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle. Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. Milton.
(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.
Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. Shak.
2. In addition; further; besides; again. Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton. More and more, with continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more." 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. — The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified. — The more — the more, by how much more — by so much more. "The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him." Milton. — To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more. Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. Byron.
MOREMore, v. t.
Defn: To make more; to increase. [Obs.] Gower.
MOREENMo*reen", n. Etym: [Cf. Mohair.]
Defn: A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; — used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
MORELMor"el, n. Etym: [See Moril.] (Bot.)
Defn: An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [Written also moril.]
MORELMor"el, n. Etym: [See Morelle.] (Bot.)
1. Nightshade; — so called from its blackish purple berries. [Written also morelle.]
2. A kind of cherry. See Morello. Great morel, the deadly nightshade.— Petty morel, the black nightshade. See Nightshade.
MORELANDMore"land, n.
Defn: Moorland.
MORELLEMo*relle", n. Etym: [F., orig. fem. of moreau black, OF. morel, fr.LL. morellus. Cf. Morello, Murrey.] (Bot.)
Defn: Nightshade. See 2d Morel.
MORELLOMo*rel"lo, n. Etym: [Cf. It. morello blackish, OF. morel. Cf.Morelle.] (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, — used chiefly for preserving.