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moist -en-ĕr (t silent), s. [Eng. moisten; -er.] seriousness by Scheuchzer as "Homo diluvii testis," One who or that which moistens.

*moist-fúl, a. [Eng. moist; -ful(l).] Moist, wet. *moist -I-fy, v. t. [Eng. moist; i connective, and suff.fy.] To moisten.

"Scotland, my auld, respected Mither;
Tho' whyles ye moistify your leather."
Burns: Postscript to Earnest Cry.

moist-less, moyst-les, a. [Eng. moist; -less.]
Free from moisture, dampness, or wet; dry.
moist-ness, *moyst-nes, subst. [Eng. moist;
-ness. The quality or state of being moist, damp,
or humid; dampness, humidity.

"Pleasure both kinds take in the moistness and density of the air."-Bacon: Natural History.

*moist -ry, s. [Eng. moist; -ry.] Moisture.
8.
"Generally fruitful, though little moistry be used

thereon."-Fuller: Worthies, ii. 278.

moisture, *moyst-er, subst. [O. Fr. moisteur, moistour; Fr. moiteur.]

1. That which gives the quality or property of being moist or damp; damp, wetness, humidity,

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was found in one bed. Camper discovered its reptilian character, and Cuvier recognized it as a salamander. Other fossils are the fossil-fox of Eningen (Galecynus ææningensis), Mastodon tap iroides, a fish of the genus Leuciscus, 844 species of insects, with many plant remains, including Liquidambar, Cinnamomum, and various Proteacer (?), &c.

(2) The Middle or Marine Miocene Molasse, corresponding in age to the Faluns of Touraine. It contains a Dryopithecus.

(3) The Lower Molasse of Switzerland (Aquitanian). Most of the beds are fresh-water. More than 500 species of plants have been found, including Ficus populina. the palm genera, Flabellaria and Phoenicites, the pine genus Sequoia, &c. [Port. melaço = mồ-lăs-sěg, *mà lòs-sěg, s molasses, from Lat. mellaceus = made with honey, from mel honey; Sp. melaza.] Food: The brown uncrystallizable syrup obtained in the refining of sugar. Molasses consists, on the

=

average, of 20 per cent. water, 36 per cent. crystal lizable sugar, 36 per cent. inverted sugar, 5 per cent. organic acids and extractive, and 3 per cent. mineral matter.

mõld (1), mould (1), *molde (1), s. [A. S. molde dust, earth, country; cogn. with Dut. mul=dust, dirt; Icel. mold = mold, earth; Dan. muld; Sw. mull (for muld); Goth. mulda = dust; Ger. mull; Prov. Ger. molt. From the same root as MEAL (q. v.).]

I. Ordinary Language: 1. Earth, clay.

*2. The earth.

"So riche a chambre molde."

ne saw thay nevere on Sir Ferumbras, 1,323.

moldavite

2. Building: A frame to give shape to a structure, as in the building of houses in concrete, béton, clay, cement, &c.

3. Founding: Molds for casting are of several kinds: (1) Open molds into which the metal is poured, the upper surface of the fluid metal assuming the horizontal position. Such are ingots and some other objects. (2) Close molds of metal or plaster of Paris, with ingates by which the molten metal enters. Such are the molds for inkstands, cannon balls, bullets, type, and various other arti cles made of lead, tin, zinc, and their alloys, which fuse at a moderate heat. (3) Close molds of sand, in which articles of iron, brass, bronze, &c., are cast. This is the ordinary foundry work, and includes machinery, stoves, ordnance, and the multitude of articles of domestic and agricultural hardware.

4. Gold-beating: The package of goldbeater's ing. It is first enveloped in vellum, 150leaves, with skin in which gold-leaf is placed for the third beating a kutch. The pieces, spreading to the size of interposed ribbons of gold, one inch square, formwith goldbeater's skin; 600 pieces and their skin the vellum, are cut into four pieces and interleaved form a shoder, for the second beating. Being again divided into four pieces, they are again interleaved with goldbeater's skin; making 2,400. These are divided into three packages of 800 each, called molds, and receive the third beating.

5. Paper-making: Hand-made paper is made by a mold and deckle (q. v.). The mold is an open, square frame with a wire-cloth bottom, and a little larger all round than the required sheet of paper. 6. Plastering: A thin board cut to a pattern and used in forming cornices, &c.

7. Shipbuild.: A full-sized pattern of the same figure and dimensions as the molding side of the piece which it represents. The mold may be of skeleton form, and may serve for several frames. It is usually a thin plank cut to the form of a ship4. The matter or material of which anything is timber, and serving as a templet for scribing the timbers for the workmen who saw, hew, and adze them into shape.

3. Fine soft earth, easily pulverized.

moi-ther, moy -thèr, v. i. & t. [Etym. doubt. formed; component substance; composition.

ful.] (Prov. Eng.)

A. Intrans.: To labor or toil hard.

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möke (2), s. [Perhaps connected with Icel. móka =to doze; mók=dozing.] A donkey. (Slang.) "The one who rides from market on a moke."-Thackeray: Newcomes, ch. xxx.

"Rather shun than seek the fellowship Of kindred mold."-Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. vi. 5. Iron mold. II. Technically:

1. Bot.: The name given to any thread-like fungal, whether belonging to the Hyphomycetes or the Physomycetes, which are found on bread, ink, gum, &c.

"The malt made in summer is apt to contract mold."Mortimer: Husbandry.

Brown, blue, or green mold is Penicillium glau cum; another green mold is Mucor mucedo.

2. Geol.: Vegetable soil consisting of the surface stratum, whether of clay, gravel, sand, or rock, disintegrated by atmospheric influences and modified by the plants, first of lower, and then of higher organization, and by the animals which reside upon or pass over its surface. Of all these animals the most potent in action is the earthworm, which effects changes on the surface of the earth second deep. [EARTHWORM.] (See also Darwin: Vegetable Mold and Earthworms.)

mold-blacking machine, subst. A machine by which a loam-mold is blacked to give it a thin carbonaceous surface; the solution is known as black

wash, and is usually put on by a hand-brush. mold-board, s.

Founding: A board on which the pattern lies while being rammed; a follow-board (q. v.). mold-candle, s. A candle formed in a mold. mold-cistern, s. Sugar-making:

1. The vat which receives the drippings from the sugar-loaves.

2. A tank in which the molds are soaked after being used.

mold-facing, s.

*mok -, a. [Cf. Icel. mökkr a dense cloud; mökkri-a cloud or mist.] Muggy, dark, murky; as, only to those produced by polypes on that of the to increase the smoothness of the face of the cast

moky weather. mō-lar (1), *mo-lare, a. & s. [Latin molaris= pertaining to a mill; mola=a mill; molo=togrind.] A. As adj.: Having power to grind; intended for grinding.

"Persons, who wanting their molare teeth must make ase of their gums for grinders."-Fuller: Worthies; Ches

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mō-lär -ēş, s. pl. [MOLAR.]

mô-lăsse, s. [Fr., from mol=soft.]

Geol.: A soft, coherent, greenish sandstone, occupying the country between the Alps and the Jura. Part of it is Miocene, and part Oligocene. It has been divided into:

(1) An Upper Miocene freshwater Molasse, found at Eningen, and consisting of a series of sandstones, marls, and limestones, some of them thickly laminated. The strata seem to have been depos ited in a freshwater lake holding carbonate of lime in solution. The great salamander, at first mistaken for human remains, and described in sober

mold-board, s. A curved plate extending behind the share, for overturning the furrow-slice. Plows are called right or left, according to the direction in which the furrow-slice is laid. Double moldboard plows are those in which the breast is formed by two mold-boards meeting at an acute angle in front of the sheth, and turning the soil equally in each direction.

crescent, from 0. Fr. modle, molle, mole (Fr. moule), mōld (2), mōuld (2), *molde (2), s. [The d is exfrom Lat. modulum, acc. of modulus a measure, a standard.] [MODEL, MODULE.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. Literally:

(1) The matrix in which anything is cast. "The liquor ore he drained

Into fit molds prepared." Milton: P. L., xi. 571. (2) A general term for patterns to work by, where the outline of the thing to be made has to be adapted to that of the pattern; also applied to various torts containing cavities either for casting in, beating or pressure. as a bullet mold, or for producing various forms by

(3) a mold candle (q. v.). (4) A thing molded."

"Think you this mold of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers?" Tennyson: Two Voices. 2. Fig. Cast, form, shape, character. "What creatures there inhabit, of what mold, Or substance, how endued, and what their power." Milton: P. L., ii. 355.

II. Technically:

1. Anat.: A fontanel or space occupied by a car tilaginous membrane situated at the angles of the bones which form the skull in a human foetus and a new-born child.

boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench;

go, gem; thin, this;

Casting: A fine powder showered upon a pattern before covering the latter with loam, and intended ing.

mold-loft, 8. A large room in a shipbuilding yard, in which the several parts of a ship are drawn out in their proper dimensions from the construction drawings.

mold-stone, s.

Arch. The jamb-stone of a door or window. mold-turner, s. A maker of metal frames or

shapes.

*mōld (3), s. [MOLE (1), 8.] A mark, a spot. "A little purple mold, That like a rose her silken leaves did faire unfold." Spenser: F. Q., VI. xii. 7. mōld (1), mōuld (1), v. t. & i. [MOLD (1), 8.] A. Transitive:

1. To cover with mold.

2. To cause to become moldy; as, Damp molds cheese.

*B. Intransitive: To contract mold; to become moldy.

möld (2), mõuld (2), v. t. [MOLD (2), 8.]

1. To make or form into a particular shape; to fashion.

"Moulded they seemed for kings of giant race." Scott: Don Roderick, xiv. 2. To knead, as bread. mold-a-ble, adj. [Eng. mold (2), v.; -able.] Able to be molded; capable of being molded.

"The differences of figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, are plebeian notions."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 846.

mol-da-vite, subst. [From Moldawa, Hungary; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: A name given to the bottle-green mineral formerly referred to obsidian (q. v.). It is now shown to be an artificial glass.

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.

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1. To perish; to waste away gradually.

"When this fiery mass

low."

shall moulder, cold and Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 27.

2. To diminish gradually. "Finding his congregation moulder every Sunday, and hearing what was the occasion of it, he resolved to give his parish a little Latin in his turn."-Addison: Spectator, No. 22.

B. Trans. To turn to dust.

"The natural histories of Switzerland talk of the fall of those rocks when their foundations have been mouldered with age."-Addison: On Italy.

möld -er-y, a. [Eng. molder, v.; -y.] Of the nature of or resembling mold.

[Eng. moldy; 1. Ord. Lang.: The quality or state of being moldy; mold; moldy growth.

mõld -i-ness, mould -I-ness, s. -ness.]

"His few Greek books a rotten chest contain'd; Whose covers much of mouldiness complain'd." Dryden: Juvenal, sat. iii.

2. Bot.: Aspergillus, a genus of Fungals. mold-ing, mould-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [MOLD (2), v.]

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.)

C. As substantive:

I. Ordinary Language:

1. The act of forming or casting in a mold.
2. Anything cast or formed in or as in a mold.
II. Figuratively:

1. Arch.: A term applied to all the varieties of outline or contour given to the angles of the various subordinate parts and features of buildings, whether projections or cavities, such as cornices, capitals, bases, door or window jambs and heads, &c. There are eight sorts of regular moldings: viz., the ovolo, the talon, the cyma, the cavetto, the torus, the astragal, the scotia, and the fillet. These mold. ings are not to be used at hazard, each having certain situations adapted to its reception, to which it must always be applied. Thus, the ovolo and talon, from their peculiar form, seem intended to support other important moldings or members; the only be used for the cover or shelter of other parts; cyma and cavetto, being of weaker contour, should the torus and astragal, bearing a resemblance to a rope, appear calculated to bind and fortify the parts to which they are applied; the use of the fillet and scotia is to separate one molding from another, and to give a variety to the general profile. The ovolo and talou are mostly placed in situations above the level of the eye; when below it, they should only be applied as crowning members. The place for the scotia is universally below the level of the eye. When the fillet is very wide, and used under the cyma of a cornice, it is termed a corona; if under a corona it is called a band. The curved contours of moldings are portions of either circles or ellipses. In Norman architecture the moldings were almost universally rounds and hollows variously combined, and frequently broken up into zigzag lines. In English architecture of the Middle Ages the moldings are bolder.

2. Joinery: A mode of ornamentation by grooved or swelling bands, or forms following the line of the object. There are numerous varieties, as the bead, the astragal, the cavetto, the echinus, the fillet, the fascia, the ovolo, the ogee, the cyma, the recta or reversa, the quirk, the bolection, &c.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

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molding is said to be stuck on or laid on, according to whether it is made on the edge of the frame or on a detached slip.

3. Min.: The ore found on the top of veins near the surface of the ground.

4. Shipbuild.: Giving the correct outline and depth to ship's timbers, &c. It is one part of the operation of forming (q. v.).

molding-board, s. [MOLD-BOARD.] molding-box, s.

Found.: A flask in which the sand is rammed. molding-crane, s. A crane for handling molds and flasks in a foundry.

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Founding: The templet by which an object is Castle of St. Anshaped in foam-molding. molding-hole, s.

Mole.

St. Angelo, Rome.

mõle(5), *moule, s. [An abbreviation of mold1. Zoology:

Founding: The cavity in the floor of a foundry warp (q. v.).] in which large castings are made. molding-loam, s.

(1) Sing. The genus Talpa, and specially Talpa europæa, the Common Mole, though the name is

Founding: The mixture of sand and clay used in sometimes loosely applied to any underground burloam-molding.

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timber. molding-mill, s.

A planing-mill for shaping

molding-planes, s. pl. Joiners' planes for making moldings, and having various patterns, or concave and convex soles to form parts of moldings; such as hollows and rounds. Match-planes. molding-plow, s. A plow with two mold-boards to throw the soil right and left; a ridging-plow. molding-sand, s. A mixture of sand and loam for making molds for casting.

molding-saw, s. One or a number of circular saws for blocking out strips for ornamental moldings. The strips are fed repeatedly to the saw at different angles, and the general outline of the desired molding approximated. The work is generally completed by revolving planes.

mold-warp, *mold-werp, *mould-warp, s. [Mid. Eng. mold. molde=mold, earth, and werpen= to throw, to cast; hence, the animal that casts up mold or earth; O. Dut. molworp; Dut. mol-a mole; Icel. moldvarpa a mole.] A mole. [MOLE (5), 8., 1.]

"Telling me of the moldwarp and the ant."

Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., iii. 1. mold-y, mould-y, a. [Eng. mold (1), s.; -y.] Covered, overgrown, or filled with mold; musty, mildewed; of the nature of or resembling mold.

"A dungeon wide and horrible, the walls On all sides furr'd with moldy damps." Addison: Milton's Style Imitated out of Eneid iii.

mole (1), *mold, s. [A. S. mál, maala spot; Ger. maal; Goth. mail; Lat. macula.] A spot, cogn, with Dut. maal; Sw. mal; O. H. Ger. meil; mark, or small permanent protuberance on the, body; spec., a dark-colored patch on the skin, covered with hair.

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mole (3), s. [Lat. mola a false conception.] Med. Juris., Physiol., &c.: A shapeless mass of fleshy substance in the uterus. Moles are of two kinds: (1) True, enveloped in a membrane, generally filled with blood, though occasionally dry. On cutting into the true mole, parts resembling an imperfect foetus will be observed. It is always the result of conception. (2) False, a term applied to the coagula which sometimes accompany menstruation. They are not the products of conception, nor have the enveloping membrane or the fleshy texture of the true mole.

rowing mammal. The Common Mole is about six inches in length (including the tail, rather more than an inch); the body cylindrical, muzzle long and pointed, eyes minute; no ear conches; the forefeet broad and fossorial, hind-feet long and narrow. Fur, black, soft, and velvety, with grayish tinge; but lighter shades often occur, and pure white individuals have been observed. The normal food of the mole is the earthworm. It is very voracious, and no kind of flesh seems to come amiss to it, but it will not touch vegetables. It takes readily to the water. Geographical range, from England to Japan. [GOLDEN-MOLE, TALPA, WATER-MOLE.] (2) Pl. The family Talpidae (q. v.)..

2. Husbandry: A cylindrical plug of iron three or four inches in diameter, and with a sharp point, drawn or driven through the subsoil to make a

drain.

mole-amblystoma, s.

Zool. A tailed amphibian (Amblystoma talpo idea), family Amblystomidae, from the islands on the coast of South Carolina.

mole-but, s.

Ichthy.: A popular name for Orthagoriscus mola, the Short Sun-fish. They generally appear floating on one side, presenting the broad surface of the other to view. (Yarrell.)

mole-cast, s. The mold thrown up by a mole; a mole-hill.

"In spring let the mole-casts be spread, because they hinder the mowers."-Mortimer: Husbandry. mole-catcher, s. One whose occupation is to catch moles.

"Get moulecatcher cunningly moule for to kill, And harrow and cast abroad every hill." Tusser: Husbandrie. mole-cricket, s.

Entom.: Any individual of the genus Gryllotalpa (q. v.), especially Gryllotalpa vulgaris, which may be taken as a type. It is about an inch and a half long, dark brown in color. In the fore legs there is a strong analogy with the moles, the tibia (the parts employed in digging) being flattened transmole-cricket are recognizable by the color of the versely to the axis of the body, and terminated by four finger-like processes. Lands infested by the vegetation which is yellow and withered, from the roots being eaten off by the insect in its burrowing operations-not for food, as its diet is chiefly underground insects and worms. It flies occasionally in the evening, and its stridulation produces a note somewhat like that of the Goat-sucker. The larvae, when first hatched, are white, and they are said to be three years in arriving at maturity.

mole-eyed, a. Having very small eyes; having imperfect vision.

mole-hill, s. A little hill or hillock of mold thrown up by a mole when burrowing underground; hence, figuratively used for any very small hill, or anything of very slight importance as compared with something larger or more important.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill: To exaggerate some very trifling matter.

mole-hole, s. The burrow of a mole. mole-plow, s. The mole-plow has a pointed iron shoe, which is attached to the end of a standard and drawn along underground, making a track like father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pot,

mole-rat

that of a mole, establishing a duct to lead water from the subsoil, pressing the earth away without disturbing the surface. mole-rat, s8.

Zoology:

1. Sing. Spalax typhlus, a mouse-like rodent, found in the southeast of Europe, ranging eastward into Asia. The eyes are rudimentary and covered with skin, so that the animal is quite blind; the tail is also rudimentary. The toes are furnished with powerful claws, which the animals use in excavating their burrows. Color, yellowish-brown, tinged with ashy-gray, the lower surface with white streaks and spots.

2. Pl.: The family Spalacide (q. v.). mole-shrew, s.

Zool.: Urotrichus, a genus of Desmans (Myogalidae). The Hairy-tailed Mole-shrew (Urotrichus talpoides) is found in Japan, and Gibbs' Mole-shrew (U. gibbsii) in North America.

mole-track, s. The course of a mole underground.

"The pot-trap is a deep earthen vessel set in the ground, with the brim even with the bottom of the moletracks."-Mortimer: Husbandry.

mole-tree, s.

Botany: A popular name for the Caper-spurge (Euphorbia lathyris).

mole-warp, s. [MOLDWARP.] mole, v. t. [MOLE (5), 8.]

1. To clear of moles or mole-hills.

2. To burrow in; to form holes in, as a mole. mō-lěc -u-lar, a. [Eng. molecul(e); -ar.] Of or pertaining to molecules; consisting of molecules.

"The spectra of these variously constituted molecules are very definite, and, for the same degree of molecular complexity, have a strange family likeness to each other." -London Times.

The solid, the liquid, and the gaseous states are considered to be molecular states of bodies.

molecular-attraction, s.

Physics: An attraction tending to draw together molecules of the same body. It is exerted only at infinitely small distances, and produces cohesion, affinity, or adhesion.

molecular-combination, s.

Chem.: The combination of molecules without the alteration of the active atomicity of any of their constituents. Water of crystallization contained in any salt is a combination of this nature. molecular-forces, s. pl.

Physics: Certain attractions and repulsions which keep molecules of matter together without touching each other.

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Chem.: The weight of the smallest particle of a compound which can exist. It is found by adding together the weights of all the atoms of the several elements which have united to form the molecules of the compound body. The molecular weight of acetic acid, C2H4O2=60.

mo-lĕc-u-lǎr'-I-ty, s. [Eng. molecular; -ity.] The quality or state of being molecular or consisting of molecules.

mŏl -ě-cüle, s. [Fr., from Lat. moles a mass.] Chem.: The smallest quantity of an element or compound which is capable of separate existence, or which can exist in the free or uncombined state. "I could never see the difference between the antiquated system of atoms and Buffon's organic molecules." -Paley: Natural Theology, ch. xxii.

mo-len-di-na-ceous (ce as sh), mol-en-dinär -l-ous, a. [Lat.molendinarius, from molendinum a mill-house, from mola=a mill.]

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Bot. Having many wings projecting from a convex surface, as the fruit of some umbelliferous plants, and of moringa. Called also Mill-sail shaped.

mõle skin, s. & a. [From its being soft, like the skin of a mole.]

A. As substantive:

Fabric: A strong cotton twilled goods for men's wear. A kind of fustian, cropped or shorn before dyeing; beaverteen.

B. As adj.: Made of the material described in A. mô-lěst', v. t. [Fr. molester, from Lat. molesto to annoy, from molestus troublesome; Span. molestar; Ital. molestare.] To trouble, to disturb, to vex, to annoy, to incommode, to interfere with. "Clarendon was informed that, while he led a quiet rural life, he should not be molested."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii.

mo-lěst, s. [MOLEST, v.] Trouble.

"The country life had least molest," Greene: (From the Morning Garment), p. 309. mol-es-tā -tion, s. [French, from molester to molest.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of molesting or disturb ing; disturbance, annoyance, interference; the state of being molested or disturbed. "From outward molestation free." Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. vi. 2. Scots Law: The troubling or interfering with one in the possession of his lands. An action of molestation arises chiefly in questions of commonty or of controverted marches or boundaries. mo-lěst -er, s. [Eng. molest; -er.] One who or that which molests, disturbs, or annoys; a dis

turber.

"Pride

"The displeaser and molester of thousands."-Milton: Church Government, bk. ii. (Pref.) mo-lěst -fùl, *mo-lěst -full, a. [Eng. molest; -ful).] Causing molestation; troublesome, annoy ing, harassing. is hated as molestfull and mischievous." -Barrow: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 22. *mo-lěst -iě, s. [Lat. molestia, from molestus= troublesome.] Molestation, trouble. *mo-lěst -I-oŭs, a. [Lat. molestus.] Troublesome, annoying.

mčl'-gu-la, s. [Mod. Latin, from Gr. molgos=a hide, a skin; probably from *melgo-to strip off.] Zool. A genus of Ascidiada (q. v.). The body is attached or free, and more or less globular. The orifices are very contractile, the oral has six and the atrial four lobes. They are found between tidemarks and down to a depth of twenty-five fathoms. Surface membranous, usually covered with extraneous substances. Five species are recorded. †mo-li-měn, s. [Lat.]

Anat. & Physiol.: Great effort. (Used specifically of menstruation.)

"The effect of the menstrual molimen is felt by the whole system."-Tanner: Prac. of Medicine, ii. 359.

*mo-11m -I-nous, a. [Lat. molimen (genit. moliminis) great exertion, from molior to toil, to exert one's self, from moles=a heap.] Massive, weighty, important, grave.

"Prophecies of so vast and moliminous concernment to the world."-H. More: Mystery of Godliness.

mō-line, s. [Lat. molinus pertaining to a mill; mola-a mill.] The crossed iron sunk in the center of the upper millstone for receiving the spindle fixed in the lower stone; a mill-rynd. moline-cross, s.

Her.: A cross so called from its resembling a millrynd in shape. It is borne both inverted and rebated, and sometimes saltire-wise or in saltire.

mo-lin'-I-a, s. [Named after Dr. Molina who wrote in 1782 on Chilianplants.]

Bot.: A genus of grasses, tribe Festuces, family Bromida. The spikelets are nearly terete, in a slender panicle, with one to four flowers, the uppermost imperfect. The flower glumes awnless, with three very strong nerves; fruit nearly tetragonous. Known species four, from the North Temperate Zone. There are two varieties of M. cærulea-the true species and M. depauperata, the latter sometimes made a distinct species. M. varia is said by Endlicher to be deleterious to cattle,

Mō-lin-işm, s. [See def.]

Church Hist.: The tenets of Lewis Molina. a Spanish Jesuit, who taught in the Portuguese monastery of Evora, and in 1588 published a book on the union of grace and free will. It gave offense to the Dominicans and others, and a Congregation in Rome was appointed to examine the work. In their third Session they, on January 16, 1598, thus stated its teaching:

be found in man's right use of his free will. (2) That "(1) A reason or ground of God's predestination is to the grace which God bestows to enable men to persevere in religion may become the gift of perseverance, it is

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necessary that they be foreseen as consenting and cooperating with the divine assurance offered them, which is a thing within their power. (3) There is a mediate prescience which is neither the free nor the natural knowledge of God, and by which He knows future contingent events before He forms His decree."

Frequent conferences subsequently took place between the Jesuits and the Dominicans on the disputed points. These meetings were called Congregations on the Aids, i. e., on the aids of divine grace. Mo'-lin-ist, s. [See def.]

Church History (pl.): The followers of Lewis Molina. [MOLINISM.]

mŏl-lah, s. [Turk.] An honorary title given to any Mohammedan who has acquired consideration by the purity of his life, or who holds some post relating to worship or the application of the principles of the Koran.

mōl-lě, s. [Latin neut. sing. of mollis=soft.] Music: A term applied in medieval music to B flat as opposed to B natural, which was called B durum. Hence, the term came to signify major and minor mode, as in the German, e. g., A dur, the key of A major; A moll, the key of A minor. Hence, too, the French formed the word bémol, a flat. mŏl'-lě-bart, s. [Flem. mollbaert.]

Agric.: A Flemish implement consisting of a large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. molle -ton, s. [Fr.] Swan-skin; a kind of woolen blanketing used by printers. *mol-11-āte, v. t. [Lat. mollis=soft.] To make soft or easy. "Soon will you molliate your way."

The Poet Bantered (1702), p. 23. mol-11-ĕn-ĕ'-şi-a, s. [Mod. Latin, from Greek mole in to go, and nesosan island.]

Ichthy.: A genus of mud-eating Cyprinodonts from tropical America, closely allied to Poecilia (q.v.), but with a larger dorsal fin, of twelve or more rays. Five species are known. The males are beautifully colored, and their dorsal fin much enlarged. In Mollienesia hellerii, the lower caudal rays of the mature male are prolonged into a sword-shaped, generally black and yellow, appendage.

mŏl'-li-ent, a. [Lat. molliens, pr. par. of mollio to soften; mollis-soft.] Softening, easing, assuaging, emollient.

mŏl ́-11-ent-1ỷ, adv. [Eng. mollient; -ly.] In an assuaging or easing manner; so as to assuage or

ease.

mol-11-fi-a-ble, a. [Eng. mollify; -able.] Capable of being mollified or softened.

mŏl-li-fi-că -tion, s. [Fr., from Lat. mollificatus, pa. par. of mollifico to mollify (q. v.); Sp. molificacion; Ital. mollificazione.]

1. The act of mollifying or softening. "For induration or mollification, it is to be inquired what will make metals harder and harder."-Bacon: Physiological Remains.

2. Pacification, mitigation, appeasing.

"I am to hull here a little longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady."-Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, i. 5. mŏl'-li-fi-er, s. [Eng. mollify; -er.]

1. One who or that which mollifies. "The root hath a tender, dainty heat; which, when it cometh above ground to the sun and air, vanisheth; for it is a great mollifier.”—Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 863.

2. One who pacifies, mitigates, or appeases. mol-li-fy, *mol-e-fy, *mol-i-fy, v. t. & i. [Fr. mollifier, from Lat. mollifico, from mollis=soft, and facio to make; Sp. molificar; Ital, mollificare.] A. Transitive:

*1. To soften; to make soft or tender. 2. To soften, ease, or assuage, as pain. mollified with ointment."-Isaiah i. 6. "They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither

3. To pacify, to appease, to soothe, to quiet. "Chiron mollified his cruel mind

With art." Dryden: Ovid; Art of Love, i. 4. To qualify, to temper; to lessen anything harsh or burdensome; to tone down; to moderate. *5. To make pleasant.

"The vocal flute

Crowns his delight, and mollifies the scene." Shenstone: The Ruined Abbey. *B. Intrans.: To become soft. mŏl'-11-nět, s. [Fr. moulinet.] A mill of small

size.

moll-ite, s. [Named after C. E. von Moll; suff. ite (Min.).]

Min.: The same as LAZULITE (q. v.). mol-llt-i-eş (t as sh), s. [Latin=movableness, pliable, soft.] flexibility, pliability, softness; from mollis=tender, Path.: Softening; as Mollities ossium=softening of the bones. [SOFTENING.]

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