moon-fern, s.

moon-fern

Bot.: The same as MOONWORT (q. v.). moon-fish, s.

Ichthy.: Ephippus gigas, a fish of the family Squamipennes. It has a great club-shaped enlargement of the first interspinal of the dorsal and anal fins, and a similar inflation of the crest of the cranium.

moon-flower, 8.

Bot.: (1) Chrysanthemum segetum; (2) Ipomœa bona-no.c.

moon-knife, s. A crescent-shaped knife, employed by skinners.

moon-like, a. Capricious, changeable, fickle. (Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, iv. 3.)

moon-lit, a. Lit up or illuminated by the moon. moon-madness, s. Lunacy.

moon-man, s. A thief or highwayman who fol lows his vocation chiefly by moonlight. (Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., i. 2.)

moon-milk, s. [LAC LUNE.]

moon-month, s. A lunar month. [MONTH.] moon-penny, s.

Bot.: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. moon-raker, s.

1. Lit.: The light reflected by the moon. 2. Fig. The same as MOONSHINE, 8., II. 3. "Yon cask holds moonlight run when moon was none." Scott: Poacher. B. As adjective:

1. Illuminated by the light of the moon; pertain ing to moonligh; done by moonlight. (Wordsworth: Idiot Boy.)

2. A silly fellow.

Foolish people are sometimes called moon-rakers, from a legend that a farmer's wife once tried to rake the moon from a river, under the delusion that it was a cream cheese. (Brewer.) Another version is, that some countrymen raking for kegs of smuggled spirits which had been sunk in a pond, on being questioned by a revenue-officer, told him they were trying to rake that great cheese (the reflection of the moon) out of the water.

moon-raking, s. Wool-gathering.

"My wits were gone moon-raking."-Blackmore: Lorna Doone, ch. xvii.

moon-sail, s. [MOON-RAKER.]

2. To expose to the rays of the moon.

"The whole population will be in the streets . . . mooning themselves."-Kingsley: Life, ii. 175.

B. Intrans.: To wander or loaf idly about as if moonstruck.

"Spend their time in mooning up in that island of theirs."-Black: Princess of Thule, ch. xxvii. moôn-beam, s. [Eng. moon, and beam.] A beam of light reflected from and by the moon.

"That night, upon the rocks and bay,
The midnight moonbeam slumbering lay."
Scott: Marmion, vi. 11.

moôn -dɔwn, s. [Eng. moon, and down.] The setting, or time of setting, of the moon. moôned, a. [Eng. moon; ed.]

1. Resembling the moon, especially in being horned.

2. Bearing a moon or crescent as a symbol. 8. Identified with the moon.

2. Of or pertaining to moonlighting (q. v.). "The range of the Moonlight terror seems to be wider and wider."-Saturday Review, April 1, 1882, p. 381. moôn -light-er (gh silent), s. [Eng. moonlight; Hist. (pl.): The name given to a body of men in Ireland, who commenced about 1880 to enforce the decrees of secret societies by deeds of violence. Their action was chiefly confined to the western counties, and their raids were made at night, whence their name. Their threatening notices were signed "Captain Moonlight."

"Taking moonlighters under his direct protection."Saturday Review, Sept. 30, 1882, p. 424.

moôn-light Ing (gh silent), 8. [English moonlighting. The acts or practices of moonlighters. [MOONLIGHTER.]

"The prisoners, with two other men, were arrested on a charge of moonlighting in county Clare."-London Daily Chronicle.

*moôn ́-ling, s. [Eng. moon; suff. -ling. [A simpleton, a fool, an idiot."

"I have a husband, and a two-legged one,
But such a moonling!”

Ben Jonson: The Devil is an Ass, i. 3.

*moôn-loved, adj. [English moon, and loved.] Beloved by the moon. (Milton: Nativity, 236.) moôn -rişe, s. [Eng. moon, and rise.] The rising of the moon. (Formed on the analogy of sunrise.) "So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night." A. C. Swinburne: Tristram of Lyonesse, iii. moôn-set, 8. [Eng. moon, and set.] The setting of the moon.

moôn-shee, mûn'-shî, s. [Hind. & Arab.] A teacher of Hindustani or other language, especially of a Mussulman. [PUNDIT.]

moôn -shine, s. & a. [Eng. moon, and shine.]
A. As substantive:

I. Lit.: The light of the moon; moonlight.
"Till candles, and starlight, and moonshine be out."
Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
II. Figuratively:

1. Show without substance or reality; that which is illusory or not likely to come to anything; unsubstantial. (Applied to expeditions, plans, projects, and opinions.) *2. Á month.

"I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother."
Shakesp.: Lear, i. 2.

3. Smuggled spirits. "Moonshine signifies smuggled spirits, which were placed in holes or pits and removed at night."-Notes and Queries, May 24, 1884, p. 401.

B. As adj.: Illuminated by the shining of the

moon.

"It was a fair moonshine night."-Clarendon. moôn-shin-ĕr, s. [Eng. moonshin(e); -er.] A term applied in the Southern and Western States to makers of illicit whisky, and sometimes, but very rarely, to smugglers of whisky that has been legiti mately manufactured. (Bartlett.)

"In a few months Polk County, which had always furnished considerable illicit whisky, became the headquarters of the moonshiners throughout East Tennessee, and raid followed raid until there was scarcely a cave on

bou, boy;

bloody fight between the moonshiners and the revenue men."-Chicago Tribune, July 8, 1894.

moôn'-shi-ny, adj. [English moonshin(e); •y.] Illuminated by the light of the moon; moonlight. moon -show-er, s. [Eng. moon, and shower.] A term applied in New England to a shower from a cloud which does not obscure the moon's rays.

çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

moor

moôn-siff, mân'-siff, s. [Hind. munsif.] ▲ nativo Indian judge.

moôn-stone, s. [Eng. moon, and stone.]

Min. A variety of orthoclase (q. v.), yielding moon-like white reflections. The best specimens, which are used in jewelry, are found in Ceylon. "Its own curved prow of wrought moonstone." Shelley: Revolt of Islam, i. 29. moôn -struck, moôn -stricken, a. [English moon, and struck, stricken.] Struck by the moon, which by some has been fancifully supposed to be capable of inspiring madness or frenzy; fanciful, sentimental. "As moonstruck bards complain."

Byron: Childe Harold, i. 72. moon-wort, s. [Eng. moon, and wort (q. v.).] Bot.: (1) Rumex lunaria; (2) Botrychium lunaria, and the genus Botrychium (q. v.).

moôn -, *moôn -eỷ, a. & s. [Eng. moon; -y.] A. As adjective:

I. Literally:

1. Pertaining to the moon.

2. Having a moon or a crescent-shaped body for a standard.

"Her moony horns were on her forehead placed." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses iz 3. Shaped like a moon. "O'er his broad back his moony shield he threw." Pope: Homer's Iliad xi. 672 I. Figuratively:

1. Intoxicated, tipsy.

2. Bewildered, silly; as, an infatuated lover. B. As subst.: A noodle, a simpleton. moôp, v. i. [Prob. the same as MUMP (q. v.).) To nibble as a sheep. (Scotch.)

"But aye keep mind to moop an' mell
Wi' sheep of credit like thysel'!"

Burns: Death of Poor Matlie, Moôr (1), s. [O. Fr. more; Dut.moor; Ger. mohr Fr. maure, from Gr. mauros-dark.] A native of the northern coast of Africa, the Mauretania of the Romans, including Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, &c.

"How the Moors and Christian slaves were joined You have not yet unfolded.” Moor-monkey, s.

Dryden: Don Sebastian, v. L

Zool.: Macacus maurus, from Borneo. It is about eighteen inches in length, and of an oily black color, whence its specific name, of which the popular name is a translation.

moôr (2), 8. [Manx.] An officer in the Isle of Man who summons the court for the several districts or spreadings. (Wharton.)

moôr (3). 8. [A. S. mór=a moor; cogn. with Icel mor; O. Dut. maer mire, dirt; Dan. mor; O. H. Ger. muor; Ger. moor.]

or peaty, and overgrown with heath. 1. A tract of land consisting of light soil, marshy

"On the moist moors their jarring voices bent." Spenser: Muiopotmos. 2. A tract of land on which the game is strictly preserved.

exist. ph = L -ble, -dle, &c.

moorage

B. Intrans.: To be confined or secured (as a ship) by cables and anchors or chains.

"Seek the harbour where the vessels moor."
Pope: Homer's Odyssey iii. 536.

moôr-age (age as Ig), s. [Eng. moor, v.; -age.]

A place for mooring.

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moose-deer, s. The same as Moose (q. v.). moose-wood, s.

Botany:

1. Dirca palustris; called also Leather-wood. [DIRCA.] 2. Acer striatum, found in America. moôr-bănd, s. [MOORPAN.] moose-yard, s. A name given to spaces in the moôr cock, moôr -fowl, s. American forests, occupied in the winter by herds [Eng. moor, and cock, fowl. The red grouse, Lagopus scoticus. The of from fifteen to twenty moose-deer, which subsist upon the mosses on the trees, or by browsing the tender branches of moose-wood. [DIRCA.]

female is called a moorhen.

*Moôr-er-y, s. [English Moor (1), s.; -ery.] A Moorish quarter or district.

"They arose and entered the Moorery."-Southey: Chronicle of the Cid, p. 336.

Moôr-ess, subst. [Moor (1), s.; -ess.] A female Moor; a Moorish woman (Campbell: Epistle, from Algiers, to Horace Smith.)

moôr greave, s. [Eng. moor, and *greave=a steward. An overseer of moors or moorlands. (Ogilvie.)

moôr -hen, s. [Eng. moor, and hen.]

.1. The female of the moorcock (q. v.).

2. The gallinule, or water hen, Fulica chloropus.

moôr -ing, pr. par., a. & s. [MOOR, v.]

moôt, *moote, *mote, v. t. & i. [A. S. mótian-to cite or summon to an assembly, from mót an assembly; cogn. with Icel. mót; M. H. Ger. muoz, móz.]

A. Transitive:

I. Ordinary Language:

1. To debate, to argue, to discuss. 2. To raise for discussion.

"Many of the questions which had been mooted in connection with the tenure of land."-London Daily Telegraph.

II. Law: To argue or plead, by way of exercise, on a supposed case.

B. Intrans.: To argue or plead; specif., to argue

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the or plead by way of exercise upon a supposed case. verb.)

C. As substantive:

1. The act of securing or confining a ship by cables and anchors, chains, &c.

"There is much want of room for the safe and convenient mooring of vessels."-Burke: On a Regicide Peuce,

let. 3.

2. A sailor's bend for a cable or hawser to a bol. lard, post, or ring, for a ship or a flying bridge. 3. A submarine holdfast in the ground.

4. (Pl.): The place where a ship is moored.

"Swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war."
Longfellow: Landlord's Tale.

5. (Pl.): That by which a ship is moored or secured, as anchors, chains, &c.

mooring-block, s.

moôt (1), s. [Etym. doubtful.] Shipbuilding:

1. A gauge ring for determining the size of treenails.

2. A piece of hard wood, hooped with iron at both ends, used in block-making.

moôt (2), s. & a. [MOOт, v.]

A. As subst.: A discussion, a debate; specif., in law, a debate or discussion by way of exercise upon a supposed case.

"A moot was held last night in the hall of Gray's Inn on the following question."-London Times.

B. As adj.: Pertaining to a debatable question; open to discussion or argument; not certain; as, a moot point, a moot case.

*moot-book, s. A book of hypothetical cases for

Naut.: A sort of cast-iron anchor, used for moor- mooting. ing ships to.

mooring-place, s.

Naut.: A place where a boat is or may be moored; a place for mooring boats.

"Ere the boat attained

Her mooring-place."-Wordsworth: Excursion, ix. mooring-swivel, s.

Naut.: A chain over the bow, having the strength of the two cables to which it is swiveled. It enables a ship to ride from two anchors and swing without fouling.

*moôr-Ish (1), a. [English moor (3), s.; -ish.] Fenny, boggy, marshy; of the nature of a moor. "Moorish fumes and marshes ever green." Spenser: Ruins of Time.

1 Moôr-Ish (2), a. [Eng. Moor (1), s.; -ish.] Pertaining to the Moors or Saracens.

¶ Moorish Architecture: [MOHAMMEDAN ARCHITECTURE.]

moôr-land, 8. [English moor (3), s., and land.] Waste, barren land; moor.

"Autumn bade the imperial moorlands change Their purples." moộr-păn, moôr-bănd,s. [English moor, and pan, band.J

A. C. Swinburne: Tristram of Lyonesse, viii.

Geol., &c.: A band of bog-clay and iron ore at some depth beneath the surface, and constituting a stratum impervious to water.

moôr-stōne, s. [Eng. moor, and stone.]

Petrol.: A kind of Cornish granite used as a building stone.

"The third stratum is of great rocks of moorstone and sandy earth."-Woodward: On Fossils. moôr-uk, s. [Native name.]

"Plowden's queries, or a moot-book of choice cases, useful for young students of the common law several times printed."-Wood: Athenæ Oxon. moot-court, s. A court held by the students of law schools in which all due forms of practice are observed, the object being to familiarize them with legal procedure.

moot-man, 8. A man who argued a supposed case in a fictitious or moot-court.

*moôt (3), *moote, s. [MOTE (1), 8.] *moot-hall, *moot-house, *mot-halle, *motehalle, *moot-halle, s. A hall of meeting, a judg. ment-hall.

"Thei leden Jhesu to Cayfas, into the moot-halle."-Wy

cliffe: John xviii. 28. *moot-hill, s. A hill on which public meetings were held.

*moot-horn, s. The horn or blast which summoned to a moot or court.

*moot-house, s. The same as MOOT-HALL (q. v.). *moôt-a-ble, mot-a-ble, a. [Eng. moot, v.; -able. Able to be mooted; fit to be mooted or discussed; debatable.

"Much after the manner of a motable case."-Sir T. More: Works, p. 944.

moôt -çhiě, s. [Native name.] (See etym. and compound.)

mootchie-wood, s. A soft wood obtained from Erythrina indica.

moôt -ěd, a. [MOLTED.]

Her.: Torn up by the roots; eradicated. moôt-er, s. [Eng. moot, v.; -er.] One who moots; one who argues a moot case; a moot-man. mop (1), *map, s. [Either from O. Fr. mappe Ornith: Casuarius bennettii, found in the island (Lat. mappa)=a napkin, or Wel. mop, mopa-a mop; Gael. moibeal a besom, a mop; Ir. moipal a mop.] 1. A bundle of rags, coarse yarn, thrum, &c., secured to a long handle, and used for scrubbing. thinly spread with a mop, would presently congeal.""The water, that was employed to wash them, being

mopus

mop-handle, s. A handle or long stick having a clamp for a mop-rag on the end.

mop-head, s. The head of a mop.

mop-nail, s. A flat-headed nail, used in securing a bunch of junk or rope-ends to a handle in making a mop such as sailors use.

mop-stick, s.

Music: A vertical damper-rod at the end of the key in the old piano-forte movement, single action. When the key was depressed, the mop-stick was raised and the damper therewith. As the key rose, the damper fell back onto the string.

*mop (2), s. [Dut.] A grimace, a wry face. "What mops and mows it makes! high! how it frisketh!" Beaum. & Flet.: Pilgrim, iv. 2.

mop (1), v. t. [Mop (1), 8.] 1. To rub or dry with a mop.

2. To rub roughly for the purpose of drying. *mop (2), v. i. [A variant of mock (q. v.).] [Mop (2), s. To make wry faces or grimaces. [MOPE, v.] "Flibbertigibbet, [prince] of mopping and mowing."― Shakesp.: Lear, iv. 1.

mõpe, *moope, v. i. [Dutch moppen = to pout; hence the same word as mop (2).] To be stupid, dull, or dispirited; to be spiritless or gloomy; to be without life or animation.

"It directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister, alone, there to mope and moan away his life."-Horne: Works, vol. v., dis. 23.

mōpe, s. [MOPE, v.] A stupid, spiritless person; a drone.

"They will be scoffing, insulting over their inferiours, till they have made by their humouring or gulling, er stulto insanum: a mope, or a noddy.”—Burton: Anal. Melancholy, p. 149.

mope-eyed, *mop-eyed, a. Blind of one eye; purblind, short-sighted.

"What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her." Beaum. & Flet.: Pilgrim, iii. 3. moped, a. [MOPE, v.] Stupid, dull, mopish. "He is bewitched, or moped, or his brains melted." Beaum, & Flet.: Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 6. mõpe -ful, a. [English mope; -ful(l).] Stupid, mopish.

mōp -ing, pr. par. or a. [Mope, v.] mop-Ing-ly, adv. [English moping; -ly.] In a moping manner.

"She sits drearily stitching, absently reading, mopingly thinking."-Rhoda Broughton: Second Thoughts, ch. viii.

mōp'-Ish, a. [Eng. mop(e); -ish.] Moping, dull, spiritless, stupid.

mop-ish ly, adv. [English mopish; -ly.] In a mopish manner; mopingly.

"Here one mopishly stupid, and so fixed to his posture, as if he were a breathing statue."-Bp. Hall: Spirituale Bedleem, sol. 29.

mop-Ish-ness, s. [Eng. mopish; -ness.] The quality of being mopishi.

Mop -lahs, s. pl. [Native name given to the sect or tribo in Malabar.] (See extract.)

"The Moplah fanatics, mentioned in the Indian tele gram published in the Times of to-day, are Mussulmans of Arab origin, and have proved themselves troublesome fanatics for centuries. They were always hostile to the Portuguese, and have on several occasions proved themselves inimical to the English. The rising has probably occured at Paniany, where the high priest of the Moplahs still resides. He claims descent from Ali and Fatima. The Moplahs are consequently a sect of Shiahs."—London Times.

mop'-pět, s. [Eng. mop (1), s.; dimin. suff. -et.] 1. A rag-doll or puppet made of rags. 2. A fond term for a girl.

"A globe in one hand, and a scepter in t'other? A very pretty moppet!" Dryden: Spanish Friar, i. L 3. A woolly variety of dog. 4. A grimace. mop-se-a, s. [Lat. Mopsus, the name of a shepherd mentioned in the fifth eclogue of Virgil.]

Zool. A deep-sea genus of Alcyonaria, family Gorgonidae. The sclerobasis consists of alternate calcareous and horny segments, from the latter of which the branching takes place. Fossil in the Eocene.

mop-sey, s. [Eng. mop (1), s.; -sey.]

1. The same as MOPPET (q. v.). 2. An untidy woman.

mop-si-cal, a. [Prob. from mope.] Purblind, mope-eyed, stupid.

mō -pus (1), s. [MOPE, s.] A mope, a drone, a dreamer.

"I'm grown a mere mopus; no company comes But a rabble of tenants." Swift: Miscellanies. mō-pus (2), 8. [Etymology doubtful.] Money. (Slang.) Used in the plural form mopusses. pine, pit, sïre, sir,

camel, her, thêre;

marîne; gō, pot,

moration

*mo-rå'-tion, s. [Lat. moratio, from moratus, pa. par. of moror to delay.) The act of delaying, staying, or lingering; delay.

"For therein [the Northern Hemisphere, and in the apogeum his moration is slower."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. vi., ch. x.

mor-a-tör -1-ŭm, s. [Lat. neut. sing. of morator. ius causing delay; moror to delay.] Legal title to delay making a payment which has become due. "The merchants of Belgrade, taking advantage of the warlike rumors, have asked for a moratorium."-London

Times.

Mŏ-rā -vi-an, a. & s. [See def.]
A. As adjective:

1. Pertaining to Moravia.

2. Pertaining to the church of the Moravians. "Now in the tents of grace of the meek Moravian Missions." Longfellow: Evangeline, ii. 4.

B. As substantive:

1. Ord. Lang.: A native of Moravia. 2 Ecclesiol. & Church Hist. (pl.): A religious sect, called at first Bohemians, and constituting a branch of the Hussites, who, when the Calixtines came to terms with the Council of Basle, in 1433, refused to subscribe the articles of agreement, and constituted themselves into a distinct body. Their tenets wore evangelical. In 1522 they made advances to Luther, who partially recognized them, but they ultimately adopted Calvinistic views as to the Lord's Supper. Their discipline was very strict. They supervised the conduct of their members in their private or secular affairs, as well as in their ecclesiastical relations. They refused to bear arms. Driven by persecution, they scattered abroad, and for a time their chief settlement was at Fulnek in Moravia, whence they were called Moravian Brethren, or Moravians. On May 26, 1700, was born Nicolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, son of the chamberlain and state minister of Augustus II., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. From early life the son was devoted to religion, his piety being of the mystic type. Having met with a Moravian refugee, who told him of the persecutions to which his sect was exposed in Austria, Count Zinzendorf offered him and his co-religionists an asylum on his estate. The man, whose name was Davi, accepted the offer, and in 1722 settled with three other men, at a place called by Zinzendorf Herrnhut (the Lord's guard). Under his foster ing care, the sect greatly increased in strength, and were often called, from their place of settlement, Herrnhutters. Till his death, on May 9, 1760, he traveled, largely spreading their views. Small Moravian churches arose on the Continent, in England, in Ireland, and in America. Though they have never been numerous, yet in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the beginning of this, they acquired great reputation from having a larger proportion of their membership engaged in foreign missions than any Christian denomination since apostolic times. Cowper, Dr. Chalmers, and others wrote of them with high admiration. Called also

the United Brethren.

Mŏ-rå -vi-an-Işm, s. [English Moravian; -ism.] The tenets or practice of the Moravian Brethren. mor'-bid, a. [Fr. morbide, from Lat. morbidus= sickly, from morbus disease; Ital. & Sp. morbido.] I. Ordinary Language:

1. Diseased; not healthy, not sound; sickly, unhealthy.

"Of morbid hue his features, sunk and sad." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 79.

2. Pertaining or relating to disease; as, morbid anatomy.

*II. Painting: A term used of corpulence very strongly expressed. (Bailey.)

mor-bid-ĕzz'-ą (zz as ts), s. [Ital.] Paint.: A term applied to the coloring of the flesh, to express the peculiar delicacy and softness

seen in nature.

mor-bid-1-ty, 8. [Eng. morbid; -ity.] The quality or state of being morbid; disease, unhealthi

ness.

mor'-bid-ly, adv. [Eng. morbid; - ly.] In a morbid manner; in a way to indicate the existence of physical or mental disease.

“As morbidly jealous of all superior authority, and as fond of haranguing, as he had been four years before."— Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii.

mor-bid ness, subst. [Eng. morbidness.] The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

mor-bif-ic, *mor-bif'-I-cal, a. [Fr. morbifique, from Lat. morbus disease, and facio to make, to cause.] Causing disease; producing a diseased or sickly state.

"The vessels whereby the morbifical matter is derived unto this membrane."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iv., ch. iii.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

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mor-bil -II-form, mor-bil-1-form, adj. [Mod. Latin morbilli=measles, and Latin forma form, shape.] Pathology: Resembling measles; an epithet descriptive of (1) the mulberry-typhus rash [TYPHUS]; (2) a similar eruption in smallpox. (Tanner: Pract. of Med., i. 247, ii. 662.)

Lat. morbilli-the measles; dimin. from Lat. mormor bil-lous, adj. [Fr. morbilleux, from Low bus disease.] Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of or resembling the measles; measly.

mor-bōse, a. [Lat. morbosus, from morbus disease. Proceeding from disease; morbid, diseased, unhealthy.

"Malphighi, under galls, comprehends all preternatural and morbose tumors and excrescences of plants." -Ray: On the Creation, pt. i.

mor-bos-i-ty, s. [MORBOSE.] The quality or state of being morbose or diseased.

"Some sight was designed, if we except the casual impediments or morbosities in individuals."-Browne: Vulgar Erı ors, bk. iii., ch. xviii.

as

mor-bus, s. [Lat.] Disease; as, Morbus brightii, Bright's disease; Morbus cæruleus, the same Cyanosis; Cholera morbus, the cholera (q. v.). mor-çeau (eau as ō), s. [Fr.] A small piece, a morsel, a bit; specif., in music, applied to a short piece or composition of an unpretending character. mor-chěl ́-lạ, s. [From Ger. morchel=the morel.] sub-order Elvellacei. They have a pileiform recep Bot. Morel; a genus of ascomycetons Fungi, tacle, with a ribbed and lacunose hymenium on the upper side, bearing asci. Morchella esculenta is the Morel (q. v.). M. semilibera, found in Cashmere and elsewhere, is eaten in India.

mor-dā -çi-a, s. [Lat. mordax (genit. mordacis) biting; mordeo-to bite.] Ichthy.: A genus of cyclostomatous fishes, family Petromyzontida (q. v.). Dorsal fins two, the posterior continuous with the caudal. Maxillary dentition in two triangular groups, each with three conical acute cusps; two pairs of serrated lingual teeth. One species known, Mordacia mordax, from the coasts of Chili and Tasmania. It is sometimes provided with a gular sac, the physiological function of which is unknown. (Günther.)

mor-da-cious, a. [Lat. mordax (genit. morda cis)=biting; mordeo-to bite.] 1. Biting, sharp, acrid.

"Not only sensibly hot, but mordacious and burning." -Evelyn: Terra, p. 30.

2. Sarcastic.

mor-da-cious-ly, adv. [Eng. mordacious; -ly.] 1. In a biting or burning manner; acridly, bitingly. 2. Sarcastically.

mor-dăç -I-tỷ, s. [Fr. mordacité; from Latin mordacitatem; accus. of mordacitas, from mordax (genit. mordacis)=biting.]. The quality of being sharp, biting, or acrid; acridity.

"The young seedling leaves and roots, raised on the monthly hot-bed, almost the whole year round, affording a very grateful mordacity."-Evelyn: Acetaria.

mor-dant, *mor-daunt, *mour-dant, a. & s. [Fr., from Lat. mordeo-to bite.] B. As adjective:

*1. Biting, gnawing.

2. Sarcastic, biting, sharp.

3. Having the quality of fixing colors. B. As substantive:

*I. Ord. Lang.: The tongue of a buckle. "The mourdant wrought in noble gise." Romaunt of the Rose. II. Technically:

1. Chem. (pl.): A term applied in dyeing to certain metallic oxides and salts used for fixing colors on fabrics such as cotton and linen, for which they have little or no affinity. Mordants are usually ap plied to, or printed on the fabric before the color is added, but they are sometimes combined with it, in which case the color is termed a lake. Salts of tin and alumina are commonly employed for bright, and oxide of iron for dark colors.

2. Gilding: A sticky substance to cause gold-leaf to adhere to an object.

mor-dant, v. t. [MORDANT, a.]. To fix the color in by means of a mordant; to supply or imbue with a mordant.

mordant manner; after the manner of a mordant. mordant-ly, adv. [Eng. mordant; -ly.] In a *mor-daunt, s. [MORDANT.]

mor-děl -la, s. [Lat. mordeo=to bite. (Agassiz.)] Entom.: The typical genus of the family Mordel lida. Antennae of the same thickness throughout, slightly serrated in the males. The extremity ends in an ovipositor. The species are very active, flying with great velocity.

morel

mor-děl-11-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. mordell(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide.]

Entom.: A family of Coleoptera, tribe Heterom era. The species are generally small, gibbous, or humped, their longitudinal section exhibiting the segment of a circle. In some the elytra are attenuated and abbreviated.

where first found; suff. -ite (Min.).] mor-děn ite, s. [From Morden, Nova Scotia,

in more or less hemispherical groups of diverging Min.: A mineral of the Zeolite group, occurring fibers. Hardness, 5; specific gravity, 2-08; luster, silky; color, white, sometimes pinkish. Composition: Silica, 66 92; alumina, 12·66; lime, 4·59; soda, 251; water, 13:29=100.

mor-děn'-tê, s. [Ital.]

Music: A beat, a turn, a passing shake. *mor-di-can-çy, s. [Eng. mordican(t); -cy.] The quality of being mordicant; a biting quality or nature.

*mor'-di-cant, a. [Lat. mordicans; pr. par. of mordico-to bite, to sting; mordeo-to bite; Fr. mordicant.] Biting, sharp, acrid.

fmor-di-că -tion, s. [Lat. mordicatio, from mor dicatus, pa. par. of. mordico-to bite.] The act of corroding; corrosion.

"Without any mordication or acrimony."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 692.

*mor-di-ca-tive, a. [Lat. mordicatus, pa. par. of mordico-to bite.] Biting, sharp. -möre, suff. [-MOR.]

[A. S. má=more, mára=greater, larger; cogn, with möre, *mo, *moe, *moo, *moore, a., adv. & s. Ger. mehr-more; Goth. mais; Lat. magis=more; Gr. megas great; Icel. meiri = greater; Goth. maiza.]

A. As adjective:

greater quantity; in greater degree. (Used with 1. Greater in quantity, extent, degree, &c.; in singular nouns.)

"And because the haven was not commodious to winter

in, the more part advised to depart thence also."-Acts xxvii. 12.

2. Greater in number; in greater numbers. (Used with plural nouns.) 3. Additional; in addition to a former number or quantity. "Two or three lords and ladies more."-Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 2.

B. As adverb:

1. In or to a greater degree, extent, or quantity. "None that I more love than myself."-Shakesp.: Tem pest, i. 1.

More is used with adjectives and adverbs to form the comparative degree, and is equivalent in force and meaning to the comparative suffix -er. More is generally used with all adjectives and adverbs of more than two syllables, but it is also sometimes used with those of one or two syllables. Double comparatives, such as more mightier, more braver, &c., occur in writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century,

2. In addition, further, besides, again. (Qualified by such words as any, no, once, twice, never, &c.)

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"And, to the desert led, Was to be seen no more."

Corper: Olney Hymns, XL

(1) To be no more: To bo dead.

"Cassius is no more."

Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, v. 3

(2) More and more: With continued increase. C. As substantive:

1. A greater quantity, amount, number, or degree. "[They] gathered some more, some less."-Erodus xvį, ditional quantity. 2. Something further or in addition; an ad.

*3. Persons of rank, position, or importance; the great.

"The more and less came in with cap and knee." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., iii. & *möre (1), v. t. [MORE, a.] To make more or greater. *möre (2), v. t. [MORE (2), s.] To root up. möre (1), s. [MOOR (1), 8.]

moreland

pitted all over, with raised anastomosing lines between the depressions. It grows in orchards, woods, and forests, especially, according to the common German belief, where fires have taken place. It has an agreeable smell and taste. It is used when fresh stewed or stuffed with forcemeat, or when dry as an ingredient in some sauces.

2. (Of the two forms): Solanum nigrum. Called also Petty Morel, the Great Morel being Atropa belladonna.

möre ́-land, s. [MOORLAND.]

mô-rē ́-11-ą, s. [Etym. doubtful.]

Zool.: A genus of snakes, family Pythonida. Morelia argus and M. variegata are the Diamond and Carpet snakes of Australia, perhaps only varieties of the same species.

mo-relle, s. [MOREL (2).]

mo-rěl'-lō, mŏr'-el, s. [Ital. dark-colored.] A kind of cherry, with a dark red or black skin; the flesh is a deep purplish red, tender, juicy, and acid.

mor-ĕn'-dō, adv. [Ital.]

Music: Dying away. A direction that the sounds of voices or instruments are to be gradually softened, and the pace slackened.

*möre ́-ness, s. [Eng. more, a.; -ness.] Great

ness.

mo-rë -no-şite, s. [Named after Señor Moreno; suff. -ite (Min.).].

Min.: A greenish-white to apple-green mineral, occurring as an efflorescence, but sometimes fibrous or in acicular crystals. Hardness, 2 to 2:5; specific gravity, 2004; luster, vitreous; soluble, with a motallic, astringent taste. Composition: Sulphuric acid, 285; oxide of nickel, 267; water, 448-100, which corresponds to the formula NiOSO3+7HO. Is found in association with nickel ores, of which it is an alteration product.

möre-o-ver, adv. (Eng. more, a., and over.] Besides, in addition, furthermore, over and above,

also, likewise.

möre-pörk, s. [See def.] A popular name for Podargus strigoides.

*mŏ-rěsk', a. [MORESQUE.]

möreş -net-ite, s. [Named after Moresnet, Belgium, where first found; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: A mineral of various shades of green, found associated with calamine. Characters of the purest variety; hardness, 25; fracture, conchoidal; streak, white. Composition: Silica, 3031; alumina, 1368; protoxide of iron, 027; protoxide of nickel, 1'14; protoxide of zinc, 43'41; water, 11:37

=100'18.

mo-resque' (que as k), a. & s. [Fr., from Ital. moresco, from moro; Lat. maurus a moor.] [MOOR (2), 8.]

A. As adj.: In the manner or style of the Moors; Moorish.

B. As subst.: A style of ornamentation for flat surfaces. Though named after the Moors it really was the invention of Byzantine Greeks.

*moresque-dance, s. A morris-dance (q. v.). *mor-foun-der, *mor-foun-dre, v. t. [O. Fr.] To affect with a cold.

Morgagni (as Mor-găn -yl), s. [Named from Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), Professor of Anatomy in the University of Padua.] (See compound.)

Morgagni's-humor, 8. Anat.: The outermost layers of the anterior face of the crystalline lens.

mor-gan-ǎt-ic, a. [Low Latin morganatica, from Ger. morgen=morning, an abbreviation from M. H. German morgengabe-morning-gift, the gift which, according to the old usage, a husband used to make to his wife on the morning after the marriage-night.] A torm used with reference to a matrimonial alliance between a man of royal blood (or in Germany of high nobility) and a woman of inferior rank. Such marriages are also called Lefthanded Marriages; from the fact that in the marriage ceremony the left hand is given instead of the right. The children of such a marriage are legitimate, but do not inherit the rank or possessions of their father.

mor-gan-ǎt'-Ic-al, a. [Eng. morganatic; -al.] The same as MORGANATIC (q.v.).

mor-găn-ǎt'-Ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. morganatical; ly.] In the manner of a morganatic marriage. mor-gây, s. [Wel. morgi-a dog-fish; from mor the sea, and ci=a dog.]

Ichthy. According to Yarrell, the name given in Scotland to a small spotted shark or dog-fish, Scyllium canicula (Cuv.); Couch considers it the same as Squalus canicula (Linn.), Catulus major (Willoughby & Ray.), S. catulus (Flem.), S. stellaris

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(Yarrell), and calls it the Nurse-hound, Bounce, or Cat-fish. It is four or five feet long, the head depressed, blunt, and rounded; the body lengthened behind, with the tail in the same straight line; color dusky red with numerous dark spots, the lower parts white. It seeks its proy, consisting chiefly of crustaceans, at the bottom of the water on rough and rocky ground. (Couch: British Fishes, i. 11, &c.)

mor-glay, s. [Celt, mor=great, and Eng. glaive (q. v.).] A two-handed sword; a claymore (q. v.). morgue, s. [Fr.] A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, in order that they may be recognized and claimed by their friends; a dead-house.

mör -I-a, s. [Gr. mōros=foolish.] Med.: Foolishness, fatuity.

mor -I-bŭnd, a. & s. [Lat. moribundus, from morior to die.]

A. As adj.: In a dying state; doomed to a very speedy death or dissolution.

†B. As subst. One who is apparently doomed to a very speedy death; one in a dying condition. mör-ic, a. [Lat., &c., mor(us) (q. v.); Eng. suff. -ic.] Containing or derived from Morus tinctoria. moric-acid, s.

Chemistry: C18H1409 H2O. An acid found in the aqueous extract of old fustic, Morus tinctoria. It crystallizes in needles mostly grouped in tufts, slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in alcohol and ether, the solutions having a deep yellow color. The barium salt, 3C18H13BаO9 C18H1409 H2O, is a reddish-brown powder, produced by boiling moric acid with recently precipitated baric carbonate. Morate of calcium exists ready-formed in fustic. It is deposited from its alcoholic solution in yellowish crystals, which lose their water at 100°. *mo-rig-er-āte, a. [Lat. morigeratus, pa. par. of morigeror to comply; mos (genit. moris) the temper, disposition, and gero to manage; Ital. morigerare; Sp. morigerar.] Compliant, obedient. *mo-rig-or-a-tion, a. [MORIGERATE.] Compliance, obedience.

*mo-rig-er-oŭs, a. [Lat. morigerus, from mos (genit. moris)=temper, manners, and gero-to manage.] Obedient, obsequious.

mor-il, s. [MOREL (2).]

mo-ril-11-form, a. [Fr. morille a mushroom, and Lat. forma form, shape.] Having the form or shape of a moril; resembling a moril.

Mör'-In, s. [General Arthur Jules, Director of the Conservatoire Impérial des Arts et Métiers of Paris.] (Soe compound and etym.)

Morin's apparatus, Morin's machine, s. Mech.: An apparatus or a machine to demonstrate experimentally the laws of falling bodies. A descending weight causes a cylinder to revolve around its axis with a velocity proportioned to that of the descending weight. A pencil attached to the cylinder records the result, showing that a falling body descends with velocity proportioned to the squares of the time.

mo-rin-da, s. [Altered from Lat. Morus indica Indian mulberry, because of its country and the shape of its fruit.]

Bot.: A genus of Cinchonaceae, family Guettardida. The bark of Morinda royoc is a febrifuge. M. citrifolia is sometimes called the Indian mulberry; it is wild or cultivated in India and Ceylon. The typical variety, supposed to be wild in Malacca, brown; the variety M. elliptica yields a scarlet dye, furnishes various dyes, from reddish yellow to dark and M. angustifolia a good yellow. M. tinctoria is also a dyo plant, and the green fruits are eaten by the IIindus in their curries.

mo-rin -din, s. [Mod. Lat., &c., morind(a); Eng. sutf.-in (Chem.).]

Chem.: C28H30015. A yellow coloring matter, extracted from the root of Morinda citrifolia by boiling alcohol. It forms crystals having a fine yellow color and satin luster, very soluble in boiling alcohol and water, but insoluble in ether. It is used in the East Indies as a dyeing material. When boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, morindin is converted into an impure alizarin.

mo-rin-dōne, s. [Eng., &c., morind(in); suff.

-one.]

Morisco

mòr‍-I-něl, 8. [Gr. mōros=stupid, foolish.] The dotterel, Charadrius morinellus, from its supposed stupidity.

mŏ-riǹ'-gą, subst. [From muringo, the Malabar name of the plant.]

Bot.: The typical genus of the order Moringaces (q.v.). The fruits are long, whip-like beans. The root of Moringa pterygosperma_tastes like horseradish, and hasa pungent odor. The leaves, flowers, and young seed-vessels are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. The seeds are the Ben nuts which furnish the Oil of Ben (q. v.). The plant is used by the Hindus as a stimulant and as a rubefacient. It is used by Indian calico-printers. The bark yields a coarse fiber from which mats, paper, or cordage may be prepared. M. aptera, a native of India, long naturalized in the West Indies, also yields ben-oil. The unripe fruits of M. concanensis are eaten by the natives of India in their curries. mō-rli-gå-çe-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. moring(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.]

Bot.: Moringads; an order of Hypogynous Exogens, alliance Violales. It consists of trees with doubly or triply pinnate leaves, the leaflets of which easily drop off. The stipules are thin, deciduous and curled. The flowers, which are white, are irregular, in loose panicles. Sepals, five, petaloid, the petals five, unequal, the uppermost ascending. Stamens, eight or ten, arising from the top of a fleshy disc inside the calyx, four sometimes sterile; ovary stalked, superior, one-celled, with three parietal placenta, ultimately becoming a pod-like capsule with many seeds; sometimes winged, buried in the fungous substance of the valves. Found in the East Indies and Arabia. One known genus with four species.

mo-rin -găd, s. [Mod. Lat. moring(a); Eng. suf. -ad.] Bot. (pl.): The name given by Lindley to the order Moringaceae (q. v.).

Eng. suff.-c.]' (See the compound.) mo-rin'-gic, adj. [Mod. Lat., &c., moring(a);

moringic-acid, s.

Chem.: C13H2802. A colorless oily acid, homologous with oleic-acid, obtained by the saponification of the oil of ben. It has a mawkish taste, a faint

odor, and a density of 908. It is very soluble in alcohol, solidifies at 0°, and is decomposed by heating with sulphuric acid. [MORINGA.

from native name (7).] mo-rin-gu-a, subst. [Etym. doubtful; Latinized

Body

cylindrical and scaleless; trunk much longer than Ichthy. A genus of Murænide (q.v.). tail. Pectorals none, or small; vertical tins little developed, limited to tail. Gill-openings narrow, inferior. Six species, from fresh water, brackish water, and the coasts of India to Fiji. (Günther.) mör-in-tǎn'-nic, a.

and Eng, tannic.] Derived from Morus tinctoria. [Lat. mor(us); suff. -in, [FUSTIC.]

moriatannic-acid, s.

Chem. C13H1006. One of the constituents of old fustic, Morus tinctoria, extracted from it by boil. ing water. It crystallizes in light yellow microscopic prisms, slightly soluble in cold water, very soluble in boiling water, in alcohol, and in other, but insoluble in oil of turpentine. It melts at 200°, but undergoes complete decomposition at 270, yielding carbonic anhydride, phenol, and pyrocate chin. Its ethereal solution is greenish by reflected, and brown by transmitted, light.

(a misreading of mormorion), in Pliny (H. N., mor-I-on (1), s. [From a supposed Latin morion xxxvii. 10, 63).

Min.: The same as SMOKYQUARTZ (q. v.).

mor-1-on (2), *mŏr'-I-an, morrion, from morra=the crown *mur-ri-on, s. [Fr., from Sp. of the head, moron a hillock; Ital. morione; Port. morrião.] A kind of helmet or steel headpiece, shaped like a hat, and having no beaver or visor. It was introduced into England about the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is often surmounted with a crest or comb.

Morion.