Morisonian

4. A dancer of a Morris-dance.

"I have seen him

Caper upright like a wild Morisco."

Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II., iii. 1. 5. The style of architecture or ornamentation known also as Moresque or Arabesque. B. As adj.: Moresque. Mor-I-so-ni-an, a. & s. [See def.]

A. As adj. Of or belonging to the sect founded by the Rev. James Morison.

B. As subst.: A follower of the Rev. James Morison, founder of the Evangelical Union (q. v.).

-ism.]

Mor-i-so-ni-an-ism, s. [English Morisonian; Eccles. & Church Hist.: The tenets of the MoriBonians or members of the Evangelical Union (q. v.). *mor-kin, s. [Etym. doubtful. Perhaps from Icel. morkina-putrid, morkna to be putrid; cf. morling, mortling.] An animal that has died from disease or accident.

"Could he not sacrifice Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies ?" Bp. Hall: Satires, bk. iii., sat. 4. mor-ling, mort-ling, s. [Fr. mort-dead; Eng. dimin. suff. -ling.]

1. A sheep or other animal that has died from disease.

2. Wool plucked from a dead sheep.

mor-maer (ae as a), s. [Gael. mor=great, and maer a steward.] The same as MAERMOR (q. v.). *mor-mal, *mar-mole, s. & a. [Fr. mortmal, from Low Lat. malum mortuum-an old or deadly sore.]

A. As subst.: A cancer, a gangrone, a bad sore. "On his shinne a mormal hadde ho." Chaucer: C. T., 388.

B. As adj.: Dangerous, bad, grievous. *mor-mo, s. [Gr. mormo, mormon a bugbear, a monster used by nurses to frighten children.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A bugbear. 2. Entom.:

A genus of Moths, tribe Noctuina. Mormo maura is a dark gray moth with blackish bands, which often flies into houses on summer evenings.

mor-mol-y-çě, s. [Gr. mormolykeion=a bugbear, a hobgoblin.]

Entom.: A genus of Carabidae (q. v.), from the Malayan peninsula and the adjacent islands, with three, or perhaps four, species. The best known is Mormolyce phyllodes, which has the side borders of the wing-cases greatly expanded and abnormally prolonged in a curve. It probably preys on larve and pupae of insects infesting the boleti with which damp bark is generally covered.

mor-mon (1).s. [MORMO.]

Ornith.: A genus of Alcide, sub-family Alcina. The bill is short and very high, the culmen strongly arched, the lip hooked, the wings and tail very short, the former fitted for flight. Mormon frater. cula is the Common Puffin.

Mor-mon (2), 8. [Named from a mythic person: age, Mormon, who, according to Joseph Smith, led a Jewish immigration into this country in early times.]

Ecclesiology, Church and Civil History (pl.): The popular name for the members of a religious body calling themselves "The Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints," or more briefly, the Latter-day Saints. Their founder was Joseph Smith, a farmer's son, born in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, Dec. 25, 1805. He asserted that on Sept. 21, 1823, as he was praying, a supernatural light shone in his room, and an angel appearing made revelations to him, and next day gave him certain engraved plates, with an instrument called the Urim and Thummim (cf. Exod. xxviii. 30; Lev. viii. 8), by the aid of which he translated them, publishing the result in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. On this, the Rev. Mr. Spalding, a Presbyterian preacher, declared that, having some time before written a work of fiction which no publisher could be induced to print, his rejected "copy" had been lost or stolen, and had reappeared as the angelically revealed Book of Mormon. To silence Spalding, both the faithful and the unbelievers clamored for a sight of the plates. After eight of the former had obtained a look at them, Smith asserted that he had handed them over to the custody of an angel, and they were seen no more. On April 6, 1830, the first Mormon church was founded in the town of Manchester, in Ontario County, New York. Others followed in quick succession. Persecution driving the Mormons from place to place, in 1839 they settled in Illinois, commenced to build a city. This was called Nauvoo, and was adorned with a fine temple. On June 24, 1844, Smith was arrested and imprisoned in Carthage jail on a charge of treason and sedition; and on the 27th he and his brother Hyram were shot dead by a mob which broke into the jail. Brigham Young was appointed to succeed

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him as prophet and revelator. In 1847 he removed with many Mormons to a secluded valley called that of the Salt Lake, afterward ceded to the United States. The industry of the Mormons soon made it like a garden; but when it was found to be exactly on the route to the Californian gold-diggings it ceased to be secluded, and it is now peopled by more Gentiles than Mormons. On Oct. 17, 1874, Brigham Young was convicted by the United States Court of polygamy and imprisoned end on Jan. 26, 1877, John D. Lee, a Mormon bishop, was e of a caravan of immigrants twenty years before. cuted for participation in a cold-blooded massacre Mor-mon-işm, s. [Eng. Mormon; -ism.] Eccles. & Church Hist.: The tenets or practice of the Mormons (q. v.). They believe in the Bible and the Trinity, the atonement, baptism by immersion, the Book of Mormon. They hold the doctrine of the Second Advent, and the restoration of Israel; they deny original sin. They recognize Joseph Smith and his successors as prophets and revelators; they claim for some of their number miraculous gifts, and considered polygamy lawful prior to an edict from the head of the church against it. Mor-mon-ite, s. [Eng. Mormon; ite.] A Mormon (q. v.).

mor-mo-peş, 8. pl. [MORMOPS.]

Zool.: A group of Emballonurine Bats, family Phyllostomidae (q. v.). It was erected by Peters, and is co-extensive with Dobson's sub-family Lobo

stominæ.

Mormops.

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moronobeæ

A. As substantive:

twelve o'clock at night and extending to twelve I. Lit.: The first part of the day, beginning at noon. Thus we speak of one, two, three, &c.. o'clock in the morning. In a more limited sense, morning is used for the time extending from sunrise to breakfast, and among people of fashion and business men for the whole time up to the hour of dining. The dawn; the morn.

"The morning, we know, is commonly said to be a friend to the Muses."-South: Sermons, vol. iv., ser. 8. II. Figuratively:

1. The early part; the first part; as, the morning of life, 2. A morning dram or draught. (Scotch.) the early part of the day; as, morning dew, morning B. As adj.: Of or pertaining to the morning or service, &c.

morning-gift, s. A translation of the German morgengabe the gift given by a husband to his wife on the morning after the marriage-day. morning-glory, s.

Bot.: Various species of Ipora and Pharbitis, convolvulaceous genera.

morning-gown, s. A gown worn in the morning. amazed to find that persons of quality were up so early." "Seeing a great many in rich morning-gowns, he was Addison.

the sun rises. (Cf. Ger. morgenland.)
morning-land, 8. The east, as the point where

"Where through the sands of morning-land
The camel bears his spice."

Macaulay: Prophecy of Capys, xxxi. morning-star, 8.

1. Astron.: The planet Venus when it is visible in the morning.

"The morning-star that guides The starry flock."

Milton: P. L., v.

2. Old Arm.: A weapon used in ancient times. It consisted of a ball with spikes, united by a chain to a staff. Called also Holy-water Sprinkler.

Morning Star of the Reformation: John Wycliffe (A. D. 1324-1384).

*morning-stead, *morning-sted, 8. Morning. (Sylvester: Maiden's Blush, 1,176.)

morning-tide, s.

1. Lit.: Morning-time; the morning; the early part of the day.

2. Fig.: The morning; the early or first part. after Morne or Mourne, co. Antrim; suff. -ite morn-ite, mourn'-ite (u silent), s. [Named (Min.).]

Min. The same as LABRADORITE (q. v.). *morn'-ly, adv. [Eng. morn; -ly.] In the morning. (Sylvester: Babylon, 327.)

mör-ō, s. [Lat. morus-a mulberry,] Med.: A small abscess resembling a mulberry. pertaining to Morocco or its inhabitants. Mo-roc'-can, a. [Eng. Morocc(o); -an.] Of or

mo-roc-cō, s. [Named from Morocco, in North Africa, whither the Saracens, on their expulsion from Spain, carried with them their art of prepar with sumach and dyed. Used for bookbinding, ing leather; Fr. maroquin.] A fancy leather tanned ladies' shoes, upholstering furniture, cushions, &c. True morocco leather is prepared from goat-skins, but sheep-skins are extensively used in the preparation of an inferior quality. The coast of Barbary yet yields a large supply of goat-skins for the manufacturers of France and England. For some centuries the principal supply was from the Levaut, which still yields a large quantity of goatskins and morocco leather.

*mör-o-log-ic-al-ly, adv. [As if from an Eng. morological, with suff. -ly.] In the way of morology.

"Morologically speaking, the production is no richer or sillier."-Lord Strangford: Letters and Papers, p. 164. foolish, and logos-speech.] Foolish talk; folly, *mo-rol'-o-gy, 8. [Greek morologia, from moros

nonsense.

Bot.: The typical genus of the tribo Moronobe (9. v.). Moronobea coccinea is said by some to furnish Hog gum (q. v.). mor-on-o-be-a, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. moronob (ea); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ec.] Bot.: A tribe of Clusiaceae. pine, pit, sire, sir,

marine; go, pot,

moronolite

mō-rð-nō'-līte, s. [Gr. mōron=the mulberry, and lithos=a stone.]

Min.: A variety of the mineral species Jarosite (q. v.), occurring in concretionary or mulberry-like forms, and containing somewhat less alkali. Found at Monroe, Orange County, New York.

mor-o-pod -I-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. moropus; Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ido.]

Palæont.: A family of Edentata, found in the Miocene of the North American Pacific coast.

mör -ð-pŭs, 8. [Gr. mōros=dull, sluggish, and pous a foot.

Palæont.: The typical genus of the family Moropodide (q. v.). It consists of two species of gigantic Edentata.

mör-ở-sâu-rus, s. [Gr. moros=dull, sluggish, and sauros, saura a lizard.]

Palæont.: A genus of Deinosauria, sub-order Sauropoda. Found in the Jurassic rocks of North America.

mo-rōse', a. [Lat. morosus self-willed, obstinate, peevish, from mos (genit. moris) = habit, manner, self-will, moroseness; Fr. morose; Ital. & Sp. moroso.]

1. Peevish, sullen, austere; sour in temper; surly, ill-humored.

"The forementioned cattle will not fail to proclaim him a morose, ill-conditioned, ill-natured person.' -South: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 3.

2. Characterized by peevishness or sullenness. "His learning produced not a morose self-complacency, but a lovely affability."-Horne: Works, vol. iv., dis. 26. *3. Morbidly brooding over and indulging in evil, and especially in impure thoughts.

morose-delectation, s.

have

.

morrow.

moroxylic-acid, s.

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shape, form; from the shapes or forms which appear to persons in their sleep; morphoō to fashion, to shape.]

Gr. Myth.: The god of sleep and of dreams. mor-phew (ew as u), s. [Fr. morphée; Ital. morfea=leprosy.] A scurt on the face; any scaly eruption.

"In taking away the morphew in the neck."-Ben Jonson: Discoveries.

*mor-phew (ew as ù), v. t. [MORPHEW, s.] To cover with morphew.

"Whose band-leese bonnet, vailes his o'ergrown chin And sullen rags bewray his morphew'd skin." Bp. Hall: Satires, bk. iv., sat. 5. mor-phi-a, s. [MORPHINE.] mor-phi-a-mã -ni-a, s. [English morphia, and mania.] An uncontrollable passion for taking morphia or opium as an anodyne.

"The extent to which morphiamania prevails in our

midst."-Pall Mall Gazette.

mor-phi-a-mā'-ni-ǎc, s.

[Eng. morphia, and maniac.] One addicted to taking morphia or opium.

"A habitual drunkard is less under the thraldom of alcohol than the morphiamaniac under that of morphia."

-Pall Mall Gazette.

mor-phi-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat, morph(o); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.]

Entom. In some classifications a family of Butterflies, characteristic of the Malayan and Moluccan districts, and of tropical America, with a few species extending to the Himalayas on the west and to Polynesia on the east. Ten genera, with 106 species. (Wallace.)

mor-phi-næ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. morph(o); Lat. pl. adj. suff. -inc.]

Entom.: In some classifications a sub-family of Nymphalidae (q. v.), but sometimes elevated to the rank of a family. [MORPHIDE.]

mor'-phîne, mor-phi-a, s. [MORPHEUS.] Chemistry: C17H19NO3. Morphinum. The most important of the opium bases, discovered by Sertürner in 1816. It is obtained by decomposing an aqueous extract of opium by chloride of barium, and allowing the chloride of morphia to crystallize out. The crystals, which contain codeine, are dissolved, and the morphine is then precipitated by ammonia, and finally purified by recrystallization. It crystallizes from alcohol in colorless, lustrous, trimetric prisms, soluble in 500 parts of boiling water, easily soluble in alcohol, but insoluble in ether and chloroform. Morphine is also solule in caustic alkalies, but scarcely at all in ammonia. Solutions of morphia are colored blue with ferric chloride; and iodic acid is reduced by morphine and its salts, free iodine being liberated. By the aid of starch solution this reaction affords a highly delicate test for its detection. Morphine forms well-defined salts with mineral and organic acids. The most characteristic and best defined salt is the hydrochloride, which crystallizes in slender, colorless needles, arranged in stellated groups, soluble in 20 parts of cold water, and in its own weight at the boiling heat.

mor-phō, s. [Gr. Morphō, an epithet of Venus, as the bestower of beauty.]

Entom.: Tho typical genus of the family Morphide or the sub-family Morphine. Forty species are described from the Neotropical region and the Brazilian and Central American sub-regions. The male of Morpho cypris is probably the most brilliant but terfly known; it is of dazzling sky-blue, with a white band across the center of the wings, which have an expanse of five inches; the female is often orange or tawny. Some of the species fly near the ground, but the largest and most gayly-colored fly at a great height. The scales from the wings of Morpho menelaus aro sometimes used as test-objects for the microscope.

mor-pho-log-ic-ạl, mòr-phŏ-lŏg ́-Ic, a. [Eng. morpholog(y); -ical, ic.] Of or pertaining to morphology.

mor-pho-log-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. morphological; ly.] In a morphological manner; with reference to the principles, rules, or facts of morphology.

"In classifying languages morphologically."-Max Müller: Selected Essays, i. 33.

mor-phol -o-gist, s. [Eng. morphology: ist. One who is versed in morphology; one who writes upon morphology.

mor-phol -o-gỷ, s. [Gr. morphe=form, shape, and logos a word, a discourse; Fr. morphologie.] 1. Nat. Science: That branch of science which treats of the laws, form, and arrangement of the structures of animals and plants, treating of their varieties, homologies and metamorphoses; the science of form.

Darwin defined it as "The law of form or structure, independent of function." and considered

morris-pike

2. Philol.: (See extract.)

mor-phō-sis, s. [Gr.]

mor'-riçe, s. [MORRIS.]

*mor'-riç-er, s. [Eng. morric(e); -er.] A morrisdancer.

"There morricers, with bell at heel, And blade in hand, their mazes wheel." Scott: Lady of the Lake, v. 22. *mor-rim-al, a. [MORMAL.]

*mor'-ris (1), *mor'-riçe, s. [Spelled morrishe dance by Holland and his contemporaries, as having been introduced into England from the Morriscoes, or Moors of Spain; Sp. morisco-Moor ish.] [MORISCO.]

1. A dance borrowed or imitated from the Moors, usually performed by a single person, with castanets or rattles in the hands; a morisco.

2. A rustic dance performed in spring and summer time. There are many records extant to prove the universal popularity of this dance, both in the parish accounts of several dates and in the writings of poets of various periods. Douce, in his illustrations to Shakespeare, supposes that the morrisdance derives its name from the Moors, amongwhom it originated, and that it is the same that. gave rise to the fandango.

"As a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May.. day."-Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 2.

3. The same as Nine men's morris [¶].

* Nine men's morris, Nine men's merils: A kind of game in which a figure of squares, one within the other, was made on the ground by cutting out the turf, and two persons took nine stones, which they placed by turns in the angles and then moved alThe player who succeeded in placing three of his stones, or men, in a ternately, as in checkers. straight line, removed any of his adversary's from any point he pleased, and the game ended by one of It was also played the players losing all his men. on a table with counters. "The nine men's morris is filled up with mud." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. * morris-dance, *morrice-dance, * morrisdaunce, s. [MORRIS (1), 2.]

* morris-dancer, *morrice-dancer, 8. who dances a morris-dance.

One

"[The] merry morrice-dancers come." Scott: Lady of the Lake, v. 20.. morris-pike, s. (properly Moorish-pike). A simple weapon borrowed from the Moors, carried by infantry, and consisting of a spear-head at the sum mit of a pole.

"The guards their morrice-pikes advanced."
Scott: Marmion. 1. 10.
expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f..
-ble, -dle, &c. bel,
shŭs.
del.

morris

mõr'-ris (2), 8. [ANGLESEY MORRIS.]

*mor-ris, *mõr ́-riçe, v. t. & i. [MORRIS. 8.] A. Trans.: To dance.

B. Intrans.: To decamp, to make off.

mor'-row, *morwe, *morewe, *morow, *morowe, s. Mid. Eng. morwe=morwen, from A. S. morgen morning. Morrow and morn are thus doublets. For the change of final we to ow, cf. arrow (Mid. Eng. arwe), sparrow (Mid. Eng. sparwe), sorrow (Mid. Eng. sorwe), &c.]

1. Morning, morn.

"She looks for night, and then she longs for morrow." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,571.

2. The day next after the present, or next after any specified day.

"He should warne the wronger to appear
The morrow next at court, it to defend."
Spenser Mother Hubberd's Tal

(1) Good-morrow: Good morning.

"Give you good-morrow." Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2. (2) To-morrow (A. S. tó-morgene): The morrow; next day.

"The coward, and the fool, condemned to lose A useless life in waiting for to-morrow." Johnson: Irene, iii. 2. *mor'-row-lig, s. [Eng. morrow; -ing.] Procrastination.

"Put thee off with morrowing."

morse."

Breton: Mother's Blessing, 66. morse (1), *morsse, s. [From Russ. morj=a walrus; Norw. rosmar.] The walrus (q. v.). "High-cheeked, lank-haired, toothed whiter than the Browning: Sordello, iii. morse (2), s. [Lat. morsus a bite; mordeo=to bite.] The clasp or fastening of a cope, frequently made of the precious metals, enameled and set with jewels, and sometimes containing representations of the sacred mysteries.

morse, a. [See def.]

Teleg. A term applied to the telegraphic alphabet, invented by Professor Morse, of Massachusetts, It is composed of a series of dots and dashes, and is intended to be used in combination with the indicator (q. v.); but though adapted for being instrumentally recorded on paper, it is usually read by sound, the receiving telegraphist writing down the words as they are transmitted. The letters are indicated by various combinations of the dots and dashes; thus, a dot and a dash (.-) represent A; a single dot (.), E; a dot and three dashes (.———), J; a dash and three dots (-- . . .), B, &c.

mor-sel, *mor-cell, *mor-sell, *mor-selle, mos-sel, s. [Q. Fr. morsel, morcel (Fr. morceau), a dimin. from Lat. morsum a bit; neut. sing. of morsus, pa. par. of mordeo-to bite; 'Ital. morsello.] 1. A mouthful, a bite; a small piece of food. "The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit

and lose thy sweet words."-Proverbs xxiii. 8.
2. A small meal.

"On these herbs, and fruits, and flowers, Feed first; on each beast next, and fish, and fowl, No homely morsels.” Milton: P. L., x. 605. 8. A small quantity; a fragment, a piece. "Of the morsels of native and pure gold, he had seen some weighed many pounds."-Boyle.

4. Applied to a person.

"How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress ?"-Shakesp.. Measure for Measure, iii. 2.

mor-sing, a. [Perhaps from Fr. mors=a bit; a bite; Lat. morsus.] (See the compound.)

morsing-horn, s. A flask for holding powder for priming.

*mor-si-ta-tion, s. [Lat. morsus, pa. par. of mordeo-to bite.] The act of biting or gnawing.

mor'-süre, s. [Fr., from lat. morsurus, fut. part. of mordeo-to bite; Sp. & Ital. morsure.] The ect of biting.

mort (1), 8. [French-death, from Lat. mortem, accus. of mors-death.]

1. A note sounded on the horn at the death of the deer.

"And then to sigh as 'twere

The mort o' the deer."

Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, 1.2 2. The skin of a sheep or lamb which has died from disease or accident. [MORLING.]

"Makes the leather of them of morts or tan'd sheeps

skins."-Greene. Quip for an Upstart Courtier. *mort-cloth, s. The pall carried at a funeral; funeral hangings.

"The vast Champ-de-Mars wholly hung round with black mort-cloth."-Carlyle: French Revol., pt. ii., bk. ii.,

oh. vi.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

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mort-d'ancestor, s. [French-death of an an

cestor.]

Eng. Law: A writ of assize, by which a demandant recovers possession of an estate from which he has been ousted, on the death of his ancestor. mort-de-chien, s. [Fr.=dog's death.]

Med.: A name for spasmodic cholera. It is sup posed to be a corruption of mordezym, the Indian name for the disease.

mortar-mill

Ben Jonson.

mor-tal, *mor-teil, a., s. & adv. [O. Fr. mortal (Fr. mortel), from Lat. mortalis, from mors (genit. mortis)=death; Sp. mortal; Ital. mortale.] A. As adjective:

1. Deadly; producing or causing death; fatal. "The fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world."-Milton: P. L., i. 2 2. Bringing death; final.

"Or in the natal, or the mortal hour." Pope: Essay on Man, i. 288. 3. Subject to death; destined to die; not immor tal.

"The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command
Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt die;

From that day mortal." Milton: P. L., viii. 331. 4. Causing death if injured; vital; essential to life; as, a mortal place in the body. 5. Incurring or liable to the penalty of death; not venial. [MORTAL-SIN.]

6. Human; pertaining to mortals or men; within the compass of human capacity.

"I have learned by the perfected report they have more in them than mortal knowledge.”—Shakesp.: Macbeth, i. 5. 7. Extreme, violent, very strong, excessive, immoderate.

8. Applied to long, wearisome, or tiresome periods of time. (Colloquial.)

B. As subst.: Man; a human being; a being sub ject to death. "Think, mortal, what it is to die."

Parnell: Night Piece; On Death.

"Adrian the Emperor mortally envied posts and painters."-Bacon: Essays; Of Envy.

quality or state of being mortal; mortality. mor'-tal-ness, s. [Eng. mortal: -ness.] The

"The mortalnesse of their wounds wasted them all."-Savile: Tacitus; Historie, p. 46.

mor-tar, mor'-ter, s. [A. S. mortere, from Lat mortarium a mortar; Fr. mortier.]

1. A vessel, generally in the form of a bell or conical frustum, in which substances are pounded by a pestle. When large, they are made of cast iron; a smaller size is made of bronze, and those for more delicate pharmaceutical operations are of marble, pottery, porphyry, or agate. They are used in connection with a pestle, which in the larger mortars is of iron, and in the smaller is of pore lain or agate. A mortar should be able to resist scratching by steel, quartz. or flint, should not be stained if sulphate of copper or muriate of iron be left in it for twenty-four hours, and should not be abraded by the ruboing down of an ounce of sharp sand to a fine powder. The pestle suould possess the same character.

"In Greece they have a cast by themselves to temper and beat in morters, the mortar made of lime and sand.” P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xxxvi., ch. xxiii.

2. A calcareous cement. It differs in its charac teristics according to the nature, proportions, or treatment of its constituents. The proportions vary from 1% to 4 or 5 of sand to 1 of lime. Hy draulic mortar is made from certain limestones which include in their composition so large a proportion of iron and clay as to enable them to form cements which have the property of hardening under water, and are called hydraulic limestones.

Roman Theol.: A sin defined by Gury as a "serious transgression of the divine law, dissolving the bond of union between God and the soul, and incurring the punishment of eternal death." To render a sin mortal three conditions are required: (1) That the matter should be weighty, either in itself or on account of the circumstances attending it; (2) full advertence to the malice of the act; and (3) full consent of the will.

mor-tǎl-I-ty, subst. [Fr. mortalité, from Lat. mortalitas, from mortalis=mortal (q. v.); Sp. mortalidad; Ital. mortalità.]

1. The quality of being mortal; subjection to the necessity of dying.

"Bodies are fed with things of mortal kind,
And so are subject to mortality.

Davies: Immortality of the Soul, s. 31. 2. Human beings; mortals, man, humanity; the human race. "Thy scales, Mortality! are just To all that pass away." Byron: Ode to Napoleon. 3. Death. "I beg mortality, Rather than life preserved with infamy." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 5. 4. Human life; life.

"There's nothing serious in mortality." Shakesp.: Macbeth, ii. 8. 5. The number of deaths in proportion to the population; the frequency of death; loss of human life. "The mean rate of mortality prevailing in the preceding decade."-London Morning Post. *6. Deadliness.

"Killing in relapse of mortality." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 3. T (1) Bills of mortality: [BILL (3), s. V.] (2) Law of mortality: That law, founded upon averages based upon the returns of mortality for a number of years, which determines the proportion of the number of persons who die in any assigned period of life or interval of age, out of the number who enter upon life in the same interval.

(3) Tables of mortality: Tables showing the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, and the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.

father; wẽ, wět, hëre,

and often in the same from eight to twenty-five per cent.

"They and brick for stone, and slime for mortar."— Genesis xi. 3.

3. Short pieces of ordnance used to force shell; at high angles, generally 45°, the charge varying with the range required. They are distinguished by the diameter of the bore, such as 13-in., 10-in., and -in which are the commonest forms of smooth-bore mortars. They are made of cast-iron or bronze; but, recently, rifled mortars, resembling short bow itzers, have been tried, and these are of wroughtiron or steel. The bronze mortars are usually of small caliber, and are called "Royals" or "Čoehorns," with 51⁄2 in. and 4 in. caliber. They are employed in the advanced trenches because of their portability. All mortars have the trunnions at the breech of the piece, and are mounted in a rigid bed of wood or iron so that they always fire at the same angle of elevation, and have little or no recoil. They are extensively employed in the bom bardment of towns or forts, as the projectiles reach the interior of such places well, have great penetrative power because of the height to which they are thrown, and hold large bursting charges which afford a great volume of flame. Smooth-bore mortars are very inaccurate in their fire, as the projectile travels somewhat slowly, and is much affected by wind. The German rifled mortars give excellent results at 2.200 yards range. 4. A kind of small chamber lamp.

"By that morter, which_that I see brenne." Chaucer: Troilus & Cressida, bk. In.

5. A short, thick candle.

6. The same as MORTAR-BOARD (q. v.). mortar-bed, s.

1. The frame on which a mortar rests for firing. 2. The bed or pool in which mortar for plastering or mason work is mixed.

mortar-board, s. A slang term for the trencher or square academic cap worn at some universities and schools.

combing materials into mortar. mortar-engine, s. A machine for grinding and *mortar-man, s. A mason. mortar-mill, s.

1. A mill in which the sand, lime, and mortar are compounded by rakes attached to the arms of a re volving wheel that moves round in a circular bed.

camel, hêr, thêre;

pine, plt, sïre, sîr,

marîne; gỏ, pốt,

mortar-piece

2. A mill consisting of two heavy drums running o a circular trough that turns on a vertical axis. The materials for the mortar are placed in the trough, and ground to fineness under the edges of the drums, as under the runners of a Chilian mill. *mortar-piece, subst. The same as MORTAR, 3 (q. v.).

"They raised a strong battery, and planted upon it a mortar-piece that cast stones and granadoes of sixteen inches diameter."-Baker: Charles I. (an. 1648).

mortar-vessel, s. A small vessel having a relatively wide beam for carrying a heavy mortar amidships. Formerly the vessel used was a ketch; hence, bomb-ketch.

mortar-wagon, subst. A vehicle to transport a mortar and its bed.

mor-tar, v. t. [MORTAR, 8.] To fasten or close

with mortar.

"Electricity cannot be mortared, ended like London monument."-Emerson: English Traits, ch. xiii. mort-gage (t silent), *mor-gage, s. [0. Fr. mortgage, mortgaige, from mort dead (Latin mortuus), and gage a pledge.] Law: The conveyance of property as security for the payment of a debt or performance of a promise, and on the condition that if the debt be duly paid or the promise fulfilled the conveyance shall be void. The term is applied: (1) To the act of making such a conveyance; (2) to the deed by which such conveyance is made; (3) to the rights thereby conferred on the mortgagee. He who makes the mortgage is the mortgager; he for whose benefit it is made is the mortgagee. Whatever may be sold may be mortgaged. Mortgages may therefore cover chattels or real estate. Mortgages must be in writing, either in one single instrument containing the whole case, or in two, one containing the conveyance, the other the condition of the conveyance, this last document being the defeasance. A deposit of titledeeds, with a verbal agreement, creates an equitable mortgage in some states which recognize this proceeding as a mode of securing a debt. The different States regulate the time in which mortgages are to be recorded, in order to protect innocent purchasers, but an unrecorded mortgage is good as against the mortgagor, or any purchaser knowing of its existence at the time of his purchase. In those states which recognize chattel mortgages (or mortgages of personal property), a record of the same within a specified time is required, to render them valid as against other claimants.

mortgage-deed, s. The deed by which a mortgage is effected on property.

mort -gage (t silent), v. t. [MORTGAGE, 8.] I. Literally:

1. To grant (as land or other property) as security for the payment of money lent, or contracted to be lent, on condition that if the money so lent be repaid according to the conditions of the mortgage, then the grant shall be void.

2. To pledge, to give as security; to make liable. "Sometimes it has made this assignment or mortgage for a short period of time only, a year, or a few years, for example."-Smith: Wealth of Nations, bk. v., oh. iii. II. Fig. To put to pledge, to bind, to make liable or subject.

"Mortgaging their lives to covetise, Through wastefull pride and wanton riotise." Spenser: F. Q., L. v. 46. mort-ga-gee' (t silent), s. [Eng. mortgag(e); ee.] A person to whom an estate is mortgaged. "An act may pass for public registries of land, by which all purchasers or mortgagees may be secured of all monies they lay out." -Temple: Miscellanies.

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2. The act or practice of subduing the passions and appetites by abstinence, penance, or self-inflicted pain.

3. An act of austerity; abstinence, penance. "Whatever mortification John practised himself, it does not appear that he prescribed anything to others."-Por tous: Lectures, vol. i., lect. 8.

4. Humiliation, disappointment, vexation, cha grin; the state of being mortified or vexed by disappointments or vexation.

5. That which mortifies or causes disappointment, chagrin, or vexation. II. Technically:

mortpay

II. Pathol. & Physiol. (Of a portion of the body): To lose vitality; to decay, and, unless the morbid process can be arrested, to die. [MORTIFICATION, 11,2.]

"Like the application of remedies to an insensible or mortified part."-Goldsmith: On Polite Learning, ch. viii. mor -ti-fy-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [MORTIFY.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective:

1. Becoming mortified or gangrened.

2. Humiliating, vexing; causing chagrin and vexation. "It is indeed a reflection somewhat mortifying to the *1. Chem. & Metall.: The destruction of active author."-Goldsmith: On Polite Learning, ch. x. properties.

"Inquire what gives impediment to union or restitu tion, which is called mortification; as when quicksilver is mortified with turpentine."-Bacon.

2. Pathol. & Physiol.: The complete death of part of the body. It is generally the result of acute inflammation, but may be also an idiopathic disease. When the process of decay commences, if slight, it may terminate: (1) By resolution; (2) by adhe does, by the death of the part. To this process the sion; (3) by ulceration; or (4), as it most commonly names of mortification, gangrene, and sphacelus have been indifferently applied, but Dr. Thomson proposed to apply the term gangrene to that stage of mortification which precedes the death of a part, and sphacelus to the death itself. [GANGRENE, SPHACELUS.]

3. Scots Law:

itable purposes. (1) The disposition of lands for religious or char

(2) A term applied to lands given formerly to the church for religious purposes, or, since the Reformation, for charitable or public purposes. By the present practice, when fands are given for any charitable purpose they are usually disposed to trustees, to be held either in blanch or feu. [MORTMAIN.]

(3) A charitable fund or institution obtained from the yearly revenue of such lands.

"There is another vacancy (for a male) on this mortication."-Aberdeen Free Press, Mar. 9, 1885. *mor-ti-fie, v. t. [MORTIFY.]

C. As subst.: The same as mortification (q. v.). mor'-ti-fy-Ing-ly, adv. [Eng. mortifying; -ly.] In a mortifying manner; so as to cause mortifica

tion.

mor -tis câu-ga, phr. [Lat.=for the reason or cause of death.]

in contemplation of death, and which is not to take Scots Law: A phrase applied to a deed granted efect until after the grantor's death.

mor -tise, *mor-taise, *mor-tice, *mor-tesse, *mor-teys, *mor-ties, s. [Fr. mortaise, a word of unknown origin; cf. Sp. mortaja a mortise; Arab. murtazz-fixed in the mark (said of an arrow).] Joinery: A cavity bored and cut in timber or other material to receive a tenon. It is the usual mode of joining the timbers of a frame, whether of a house or a machine. Mortises in a hub are said to be dodging when they dodge in and out alter nately, in order to stiffen the wheel, which by spreading the bases of the spokes are then said to be staggered, and the wheel is a staggered wheel.

"What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them, Can hold the mortise?" Shakesp.: Othello, ii. 1. door, instead of being placed thereon. mortise-bolt, s. A bolt let into a mortise in a

mortise-chisel, s. A stout chisel driven by a mallet, and used to make mortises in framing. The smaller varieties have tangs, and the larger, sockets.

mortise-gauge, s. A scribing-gauge with two sharp adjustable points, which may be set to the distance for the mortise or tenon from the working

mor-ti-fied, *mor-ti-fyed, pa. par. or a. [MOR- edge, and also the width of the mortise and size of

TIFY.]

*mor-ti-fied-ness, s. [Eng. mortified; -ness.] The quality or stato of being mortified; subjection of the passions and appetitos; mortification. "No way suitable to that Christian simplicity, mortiRedness which those times required."-Bp. Tay lor: Artificial Handsomeness, p. 114. mor'-ti-fi-er, s. [Eng. mortify; er.] One who or that which mortifles.

mor -ti-fy, *mor-ti-fie, v. t. & i. [Fr. mortifier, from Lat. mortifico to cause death: mors (gonit. mortis) = death, and facio= to make, to cause.] A. Transitive:

I. Ordinary Language:

1. To destroy the vital functions of. [II. 2.] *2. To destroy the active powers of; to dull, to deaden.

"Sothly the good werkes that he did before that he fell in dedly sinne, ben all mortified."-Chaucer: Persones Tale.

*3. To render apathetic or insensible.

"Strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms Pins." Shakesp.: Lear, ii. 3. 4. To subdue, restrain, or bring into subjection by abstinence, penance, or austere living; to subduo by ascetic discipline, and regimen. "Neither pride nor lust . nor any other vice, was ever mortified by corporal disciplines."-South: Sermons,

Law: A mortgager (q. v.). mor-ther, s. [MAUTHER.] *mor-tiçe, s. [MORTISE.]

mor-tif -ĕr-oŭs, a. [Lat. mortifer, from mors (gonit. mortis) = death; fero to bring, and Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] Bringing or producing death; fatal, mortal, deadly.

"But whatever it is in any other country, 'tis certainly mortiferous in ours."-Evelyn: Acetaria.

mor-tif-i-ca-tion, s. [Fr., from mortifier = to mortify (q. v.); Sp. mortificacion; Ital. mortificaBione.J

1. Ordinary Language:

1. The act of mortifying; the condition or state of becoming mortified. [II. 2.]

"My griefs ferment and rage,
Rankle and fester, and gangrene,
To black mortification.'
Milton: Samson Agonistes, 622.
çell,

boll, boy; pout, jowl; cat,

5. To humiliate, to vex, to disappoint, to chagrin. "Compton, cruelly mortified, refused to bear any part in the ceremony."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii. II. Technically:

tenon.

mortise-joint, s. A joint made by a mortise and

tenon.

mortise-lock, s.

Locksmith.: A lock adapted to be inserted into a mortise in the edge of the door, so as only to expose the selvage or edge-plate.

the holes in door-stiles to hide the locks. It has a Mortise-lock chisel: A joiner's chisel for making peculiar shape, in order to pull out the wood.

mortise-wheel, s. A wheel having holes to receive wooden teeth, either on the edge or face, as the case may be. Such a tooth is specifically known as a cog.

mor-tise, *mor-tize, v. t. [MORTISE, 8.] I. Literally:

1. To cut a mortise in.

2. To join with a mortise or tenon. II. Fig.: To join or unite firmly.

*1. Chem. & Metall.: To destroy the active pow. of which appellation Sir Edward Coke offers many con ers or qualities of.

"This quicksilver I wol mortifle.”

Chaucer: C. T., 16,594. 2. Scots Law: To dispose of by way of mortifica tion. [MORTIFICATION, II. 3.]

B. Intransitive:

I. Ordinary Language:

"All purchases made by corporate bodies being said to be purchases in mortmain, in mortuâ munu; for the reason jectures; but there is one which seems more probable than any that he has given us, viz., that these purchases being usually made by ecclesiastical bodies, the members of law, land therefore, holden by them, might with great which (being professed) were reckoned dead persons in propriety be said to be held in mortuâ manu.”—Black stone: Comment., bk. i., ch. 18.

¶ Alienation in mortmain: [ALIENATION.] *mort-mål, s. [Fr. mort=dead, and mal=evil.] A bad sore; a mormal (q. v.).

"mort pay 8. [Fr. mort dead, and Eng. pay (q. v.).] pay the taking or receiving pay or wages for more soldiers than were actually serving, some being dead or discharged, or for more days than they had really served.

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

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De Sepultura.

*2. A burial place.

3. A dead-house; a place of temporary reception for the dead; a morgue.

B. As adj. [Lat. mortuarius]: Of or pertaining to a mortuary, or to the burial of the dead.

fmortuary-guinea, s. (See extract.)

"The mortuary-guinea is the parson's due at burials, for reading the service, church-yard fees, &c."-Hull: Genuine Letters, ii. 100.

mor -u-la, s. [Mod. Lat., dimin. of Lat. morum a mulberry, a blackberry.]

Biol. The globular mass of cleavage cells resulting from the repeated bisection of the parent-cell (q. v.). The cells lie as close together as the drupes of a mulberry or blackberry, so that the entire sur face of the round mass appears rugged. (Haeckel: Evolution of Man, i. 189.)

mör-us, s. [Lat., from Greek morea = the mulberry-tree; from moron-the black mulberry.] Bot.: Mulberry; the typical genus of the order Moraceae (Morads). The fruits of the several species are catable, but cause diarrhoea if taken in excess. Morus alba, the White Mulberry, is the one most frequently used in Europe for feeding silkworms. It has a sub-acid succulent fruit; M. nigra, the Black Mulberry, is also used for silkworms. The juice is a remedy for sore throat, and a good refrigerant in fever. The bark is purgative and a vermifugo. Nine kinds of mulberry tree-some of them species, others only varieties-occur in India. Morus alba, M. atropurpurea, M. cuspidata, M. indica, M. laevigata, M. serrata, M. multicaulis, M. nigra, and M. parviflora. M. serrata is valued by the Simla wood-carvers. M. indica, wild in the subHimalayas, is cultivated through India. The larva of the Assam silkworm, Bombyx textor, is fed upon its leaves. Its stem yields a gum. Its root is an thelmintic and astringent. The fruit has an agreeable, aromatic, and acid flavor; is cooling and laxative, allays thirst, and is grateful in fevers. mor-vant, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A species of sheep.

mor-věn-ite, s. [Named after Morven, Argyleshiro; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: The same as HARMOTOME (q. v.). *morwe, s. [MORROW.] *morwening, s. [MORNING.J mỏg--sâur-ňs, 8. [MOSASAURUS.] Mō-gā -Ic (1), *Mō-şā ́-ic-al (1), a. [Lat. Mosaicus.] Pertaining or relating to Moses, the Jewish loader and lawgiver.

"The Mosaic law, as it was planned by unerring wis dom, and unquestionably admirably well contrived for the great purposes for which it was intended."-Bp. Horsley: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 21.

Mosaic-law, 8.

Script.: The law as given by or through Moses. It consisted of three portions, the Moral, the Ceremonial, and the Judicial law, the last constituting the civil and criminal code of the Jews.

mō-şã -ic (2) *mō-§ā -Ick, *mō-şā -Ic-al (2), a. & s. [Fr. mosaïque mosaic work, from Low Lat. *musaicus; Gr. mousaikos, from mouseion= mosaic work; neut. sing. of mouseios=pertaining to the Muses; hence, artistic, ornamental; Lat. musæum or musivum opus mosaic work; Ital. mosaico =mosaic; Sp. mosaica obra mosaic work; Port. mosaico mosaic.] [MUSE, 8.]

A. As adjective:

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colored substances, such as marble, glass, or natural stones united by cement (mastic), and which served as floors, walls, and the ornamental coverings of columns. Roman mosaic consists of pieces of artificial enamel, in place of natural stone. The enamel is drawn out into rods of various sizes, cut into lengths, and arranged in cases something after the manner of printing type, the boxes containing each a different shade or color. Some of the ancient Egyptian beads were thus made Mosaic Work (the Roman Opus tessellatum) is of Asiatic origin, and is probably referred to in Esther, ch. i. 6, about 519 B. C. It had attained to great excollence in Greece, in the time of Alexander and his successors, when Sosos of Pergamus, the most renowned Mosaic artist of antiquity, flourished. He acquired great fame by his accurate representation of an "unswept loor after a feast." The Romans also excelled in Mosaic work, as evidenced by the innumerable specimens preserved. Byzantine Mosaics date from the 4th century after Christ. The art was revived in Italy by Tafi, Gaddi, Cimabue, and Giotto, who designed Mosaics, and introduced ury Titian and Veronese also designed subjects for a higher style in the 13th century. In the 16th centthis art. The practice of copying paintings in Mosaics came into vogue in the 17th century; and there is now a workshop in the Vatican where chemical science is employed in the production of finer kind is applied to the production of broaches, colors, and where 20,000 different tints are kept. A &c. The oldest and simplest form of mosaic work is the dice-shaped pavement, or Musivum opus, of the Romans. The Opus tesselatum was a tesselated geometrical pavement.

2. Variegated like mosaic work.

"The tonsile box Wove, in mosaic mode of many a curl, Around the figured carpet of the lawn," Mason: English Garden, bk. i. B. As substantive:

1. Lit.: Mosaic work. [A 1.] "The liquid floor inwrought with pearls divine, Where all his labors in mosaic shine.' Savage: Wanderer, v. 2. Pyro.: A pyrotechnic device cousisting of a surface with diamond-shaped compartments, formed by two series of parallel lines crossing each other. The effect is produced by placing at each intersection four jets of fire which run into the adjoining ones. The intervals between the jets must be associated with the discharge of others, so as to keep up a succession of fires in the spaces. mosaic-floor, s. A floor laid in colored woods, tiles, or marbles, systematically arranged, either symmetrically or pictorially.

mosaic-glass, s. Mosaic glass is formed by the association of various colored opaque or transparent rods of glass, so arranged that the ends may form patterns. Sections being removed, the pieces are arranged for the production of a recurring pattern, or a general combination is formed by the association of a variety of separate ornaments. mosaic-gold, s.

Chem.: SnS2. Bisulphide of tin. Prepared by exposing a mixture of 12 parts of tin, 6 of mercury, 6 of sal-ammoniac, and 7 of flowers of sulphur to a low red heat. It forms brilliant gold-colored scales, and is used as a substitute for gold powder. Mosaic Ministry, s. The name given by Burke to the mongrel coalition which took office in July, 1766.

"Pitt undertook the formation of that Mosaic Ministry which Edmund Burke has so graphically described."Collier: British Empire, ch. iv., p. 399.

mosaic-tile, 8. A tile molded with different colored clays, arranged in patterns in imitation of the associated pieces of colored stones in a true mosaic. mosaic-wool, s. A form of rug or mat made from colored wool, arranged so that the ends of the wool present a definite pattern. Threads of wool of equal length are placed horizontally in a frame, close together, to form a compact mass. They are of different colors, and the colors are arranged in conformity with a pattern. The threads, being held firmly in the frame, are then cut across to form cubical masses, all the threads in each cube being kept rigidly in their places. The cube is then placed in a frame with the threads vertical, and a clean cut made across the top. The smooth sur face is then wet with a solution of rubber, and a piece of canvas firmly attached. When dry, a machine cuts off a slice of such thickness as is desired for the length of the pile. A rug or mat of a velvety finish is thus produced. Other slices can be cut off in the same way until the wool is exhausted.

[Eng. Mosaic (1); -al.]

[Eng. mosaic (2); -al.]

The

The

Mō-şā -Ic-al (1), a. same as MOSAIC (1). mō-şă -ic-al (2), a. same as MOSAIC (2), A. "The trees were to them a pavilion, and they to the trees a mosaical flower."—Sidney Arcadia, bk. i., p. 15.

moschus

mo-gă-Ic-al-19, adv. [Eng. mosaical (2); -ly.J After the manner of mosaic work.

"They (mixed in workes) mosaically grow." Stirling: Domesday; Twelfth Houre. Mosaic system; adherence to Mosaic system of Mōş ́-ā-işm, s. [English Mos(es); -ism.] The doctrines.

"Christianity, being the offspring of Mosaism, was rejected by the Jews."-Mac Muller. Science of Religion. mō-şǎn-drīte, s. [After the Swedish chemist, Mosander; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: A monoclinic mineral, occurring in long prisms in syenite, sometimes massive and fibrous. Hardness, 4; specific gravity, 293-303; luster, vitre ous to resinous, color, reddish-brown, when fresh; thin slivers translucent. Composition: A hydrated silico-titanate of cerium, lanthanum, didymium and calcium, with some soda and sesquioxide of iron. Found, associated with various other miner als, at Brevig, Norway.

mōş-a-sâu ́-ri-dæ, s. pl. [Modern Latin mosa believed by Sir Richard Owen to be Lacertilian, saur (us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ido.] Paleont.: Mosasauroids; a family of Reptiles, but arranged by Prof. Cope in a new order Python omorpha, and placed near the Ophidia. The teeth are rootless and solid throughout; they are joined to sockets, as in the crocodiles. The palate has also the jaw by a broad bony base, and not inserted in teeth. There were paddles instead of feet.

mos-a-sâu-r61d, a. & 8. [Modern Latin mosa saur(us), and Gr. eidos=form.]

A. As adj.: Belonging to or characteristic of the Mosasaurids (q. v.).

B. As substantive:

Palæont. (pl.): The Mosasaurida.

"It was early conjectured that the mosasauroids were marine and aquatic in their habits.”—Nicholson: Pais ontology, ii. 206.

mōş-a-sâu ́-rus, s. [Lat. Mosa=the river Maas or Meuse, and Gr. sauros, saura=a lizard.] Palæont.: The name given by Conybeare to a gigantic marine Saurian, called by Wagler Saurochampsa (q.v.). It is now made the type of a family, Mosasauridae (g.v.). Mosasaurus camperi was discovered in the Maestricht chalk in 1780, and was named by Sommering Lacerta gigantea. It came into possession of the French at the fall of Maes tricht (1794). Another species, M. princeps, is be lieved to have been seventy feet long.

mos-chär -1-a, subst. [Gr. moschos=musk; Lat, neut. pl. adj. suff. -aria.]

Bot.: A genus of Composites, sub-order Labiatiflora, sub-tribe Trixides. Moscharia pinnatifidə has a smell like musk.

mos-cha-tel, s. [Fr. moscatelle, from Low Lat muscatus having the smell of musk (q. v.).)

Bot.: The genus Adoxa (q. v.). Adora moschotellina is the Tuberous Moschatel. It is a small plant, with broadly triangular-ovate leaves and yellowish-green flowers.

mos -cha-tin, s. [Mod. Lat. moschat(a), fem. sing. of moschatus musky; Eng. suff, -in (Chem.).}

Chem.: CaH2NO. An aromatic nitrogenous substance contained in the iva plant, Achillen mos chata. It has a bitter taste, is insoluble in water, but slightly soluble in absolute alcohol. It melts under water at the heat of the water-bath, and sepa rates in the pulverulent form on cooling.

tmos-cha-tous, adj. [Mod. Lat. moschat (us)= musky; Eng. suff, ous.] Bot.: Having the smell of musk. (Treas. of Bot.) mos-chi-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. mosch(us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. ido.] Zool.: A family of Ruminantia, including the Chevrotains and the Musk-deer. The former now constitute the family; the latter either forms a separate genus, Moschus (q. v.), or is, as Prof. Gar rod suggests, considered as an aberrant member of the Bovidae.

suff.-ine.] Of or pertaining to the Moschida (q. v.). mos-chine, a. [Mod. Lat. mosch(us); Eng. adj. mosch-ŏş-ma, s. [Gr.moschos=musk, and osme a smell.]

Bot.: The typical genus of the family Moschosmida.

mos-choş -mi-dæ, s. pl. [Modern Latin mos chosm(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. sutf. -ida.] Bot. A family of Labiata, tribe Ocimeæ. mos-chus, s. [Gr. moschos=musk.] Zool.: A genus of Cervidae, with a single species, Moschus moschiferus, the Musk-deer (q. v.). I differs in many important structural characters from the cervine type; there are no horns in either sex, and the canines are prolonged three inches be low the chin. The presence of a gall-bladder would seem to indicate relationship with the Antilopids It is an alpine animal, inhabiting the mountains of Central Asia to China and Siberia.