MOAN, verb transitive To lament; to deplore; to bewail with an audible voice.

Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan

My dear Columbo dead and gone.

MOAN, verb intransitive To grieve; to make lamentations.

Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.

MOAN, noun Lamentation; audible expression of sorrow; grief expressed in words or cried.

Sullen moans,

Hollow groans.

MOANED, participle passive Lamented; deplored.

MOANFUL, adjective Sorrowful; expressing sorrow.

MOANFULLY, adverb With lamentation.

MOANING, participle present tense Lamenting; bewailing.

MOAT, noun In fortification, a ditch or deep trench round the rampart of a castle or other fortified place. It is sometimes filled with water.

MOAT, verb transitive To surround with a ditch for defense; as a moated castle.

MOB, noun [from Latin mobilis, movable, variable.]

1. A crowd or promiscuous multitude of people, rude, tumultuous and disorderly.

2. A disorderly assembly.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob

3. A huddled dress.

MOB, verb transitive To attack in a disorderly crowd; to harass tumultuously.

1. To wrap up in a cowl or vail.

MOB'BISH, adjective Like a mob; tumultuous; mean; vulgar.

MOB'CAP, noun A plain cap or head-dress for females.

MO'BILE, adjective Movable. [Not used.]

MO'BILE, noun [Latin mobilis.] The mob; the populace.

Primum mobile in the ancient astronomy, a ninth heaven or sphere, supposed to be beyond the fixed stars, and to be the first mover of all the lower spheres.

MOBIL'ITY, noun [Latin mobilitas, from moveo, to move.]

1. Susceptibility of motion; capacity of being moved.

2. Aptitude to motion; activity; readiness to move.

3. In cant language, the populace.

4. Fickleness; inconstancy.

MOB'LE, verb transitive To wrap the head in a hood.

MOC'CASON, noun A shoe or cover for the feet, made of deer-skin or other soft leather, without a sole, and ornamented on the upper side; the customary shoe worn by the native Indians.

MOCK, verb transitive

1. Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry.

2. To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule; to treat with scorn or contempt.

As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, saying, go up, thou bald head. 2 Kings 2:23. Mark 10:34.

3. To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation.

Thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Judges 16:10.

4. To fool; to tantalize; to play on in contempt.

He will not

MOCK us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

MOCK, verb intransitive To make sport in contempt or in jest, or to speak jestingly.

When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job 11:3.

MOCK, noun Ridicule; derision; sneer; an act manifesting contempt.

Fools make a mock at sin. Proverbs 14:9.

What shall be the portion of those who make a mock at every thing sacred?

1. Imitation; mimicry. [Little used.]

MOCK, adjective False, counterfeit; assumed; imitating reality, but not real.

That superior greatness and mock majesty--

MOCK'AGE, noun Mockery. [Not used.]

MOCK'ED, participle passive Imitated or mimicked in derision; laughed at; ridiculed; defeated; illuded.

MOCK'ER, noun One that mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

MOCK'ERY, noun The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.

1. Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things.

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like mockery upon devotion, than any solemn application of the mind to God.

2. Sport; subject of laughter.

Of the holy place they made a mockery

3. Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.

It is as the air, invulnerable,

And our vain blows malicious mockery

4. Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show.

And bear about the mockery of woe

To midnight dances.

MOCK'ESON, noun The name of a serpent.

MOCK'ING, participle present tense Imitating in contempt; mimicking; ridiculing by mimicry; treating with sneers and scorn; defeating; deluding.

MOCK'ING, noun Derision; insult.

MOCK'INGLY, adverb By way of derision; in contempt.

MOCKLE. [See Mickle.]

MOCK'ORE, noun A sulphuret of zink, the same as blend, which see.

MOCK'-ORANGE, noun A plant of the genus Philadelphus.

MOCK'-PRIVET, noun A plant of the genus Phillyrea.

MO'DAL, adjective [See Mode.] Consisting in mode only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality; as the modal diversity of the faculties of the soul.

MODAL'ITY, noun The quality of being modal, or being in form only.

MODE, noun [Latin modus, metior. The primary sense of mode is measure hence form. Measure is from extending, the extent, hence a limit, and hence the derivative sense of restraining. See Meet and Measure.]

1. Manner of existing or being; manner; method; form; fashion; custom; way; as the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing; modes of receiving or entertaining company.

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may be easily found.

It is applicable to particular acts, or to a series of acts, or to the common usage of a city of nation. One man has a particular mode of walking; another has a singular mode of dressing his hair. We find it necessary to conform in some measure to the usual modes of dress.

2. Gradation; degree.

What modes of sight between each wide extreme!

3. State; quality.

4. In metaphysics, the dependence or affection of a substance. Such complex ideas as contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies or affections of substances, Locke calls modes. Of these he makes two kinds; simple modes, which are only variations or different combinations of the same idea, as a dozen, which consists of so many units added together; and mixed modes, which are compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, as beauty, which is compounded of color and figure.

A mode is that which cannot subsist in and of itself, but is esteemed as belonging to and subsisting by the help of some substance, which for that reason is called its subject.

5. In music, a regular disposition of the air and accompaniments relative to certain principal sounds, on which a piece of music is formed, and which are called the essential sounds of the mode

6. In grammar, a particular manner of conjugating verbs to express manner of action or being, as affirmation, command, condition and the like; usually and not very properly written mood. Mood is a word of different signification. [See Mood.]

7. A kind of silk.

MODEL, noun mod'l. [Latin modulus, from modus.]

1. A pattern of something to be made; any thing of a particular form, shape or construction, intended for imitation; primarily, a small pattern; a form in miniature of something to be made on a larger scale; as the model of a building; the model of a fort.

2. A mold; something intended to give shape to castings.

3. Pattern; example; as, to form a government on the model of the British or American constitution.

4. Standard; that by which a thing is to be measured.

He that despairs, measures Providence by his own contracted model

5. In painting and sculpture, that which is to be copied or imitated; as the naked human form.

6. A pattern; any thing to be imitated. Take Cicero, lord Chatham or Burke, as a model of eloquence; take Washington as a model of prudence, integrity and patriotism; above all, let Christ be the model of our benevolence, humility, obedience and patience.

7. A copy; representation; something made in imitation of real life; as anatomical models, representing the parts of the body. General Pfiffer constructed a model of the mountainous parts of Switzerland.

MOD'EL, verb transitive To plan or form in a particular manner; to shape; to imitate in planning or forming; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.

MOD'ELED, participle passive Formed according to a model; planned; shaped; formed.

MOD'ELER, noun A planner; a contriver.

MOD'ELING, participle present tense Forming according to a model; planning; forming; shaping.

MOD'ERATE, adjective [Latin moderatus, from moderor, to limit, from modus, a limit.]

1. Literally, limited; restrained; hence, temperate; observing reasonable bounds in indulgence; as moderate in eating or drinking, or in other gratifications.

2. Limited in quantity; not excessive or expensive. He keeps a moderate table.

3. Restrained in passion, ardor or temper; not violent; as moderate men of both parties.

4. Not extreme in opinion; as a moderate Calvinist or Lutheran.

5. Placed between extremes; holding the mean or middle place; as reformation of a moderate kind.

6. Temperate; not extreme, violent or rigorous; as moderate weather; a moderate winter; moderate heat; a moderate breeze of wind.

7. Of a middle rate; as men of moderate abilities.

8. Not swift; as a moderate walk.

MOD'ERATE, verb transitive To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence; to lessen; to allay; to repress; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.

1. To temper; to make temperate; to qualify.

By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.

MOD'ERATE, verb intransitive To become less violent, severe, rigorous or intense. The cold or winter usually moderates in March; the heat of summer moderates in September.

MOD'ERATED, participle passive Reduced in violence, rigor or intensity; allayed; lessened; tempered; qualified.

MOD'ERATELY, adverb Temperately; mildly; without violence.

1. In a middle degree; ; not excessively; as water moderately warm.

Each nymph but moderately fair.

MODERA'TION, noun [Latin moderatio.] The state of being moderate, or of keeping a due mean between extremes or excess of violence. The General's moderation after victory was more honorable than the victory itself.

In moderation placing all my glory,

While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory.

1. Restraint of violent passions or indulgence of appetite. Eat and drink with moderation; indulge with moderation in pleasures and exercise.

2. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear prosperity or adversity with moderation

3. Frugality in expenses.

MODERA'TOR, noun He or that which moderates or restrains. Contemplation is an excellent moderator of the passions.

1. The person who presides over a meeting or assembly of people to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings and declare the vote; as the moderator of a town meeting or of a society.

MODERA'TORSHIP, noun The office of a moderator.

MOD'ERNS, noun Those who have lived in times recently past, or are now living; opposed to the ancients.

MOD'EST, adjective [Latin modestus, from modus, a limit.]

1. Properly, restrained by a sense of propriety; hence, not forward or bold; not presumptuous or arrogant; not boastful; as a modest youth; a modest man.

2. Not bold or forward; as a modest maid. The word may be thus used without reference to chastity.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

3. Not loose; not lewd.

Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife.

4. Moderate; not excessive or extreme; not extravagant; as a modest request; modest joy; a modest computation.

MOD'ESTLY, adverb Not boldly; not arrogantly or presumptuously; with due respect. He modestly expressed his opinions.

1. Not loosely or wantonly; decently; as, to be modestly attired; to behave modestly

2. Not excessively; not extravagantly.

MOD'ESTY, noun [Latin modestia.] That lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance. This temper when natural, springs in some measure from timidity, and in young and inexperienced persons, is allied to bashfulness and diffidence. In persons who have seen the world, and lost their natural timidity, modesty springs no less from principle than from feeling, and is manifested by retiring, unobtrusive manners, assuming less to itself than others are willing to yield, and conceding to others all due honor and respect, or even more than they expect or require.

2. modesty as an act or series of acts, consists in humble, unobtrusive deportment, as opposed to extreme boldness, forwardness, arrogance, presumption, audacity or impudence. Thus we say, the petitioner urged his claims with modesty; the speaker addressed the audience with modesty

3. Moderation; decency.

4. In females, modesty has the like character as in males; but the word is used also as synonymous with chastity, or purity of manners. In this sense, modesty results from purity of mind, or from the fear of disgrace and ignominy fortified by education and principle. Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of their honor.

MOD'ICUM, noun [Latin] A little; a small quantity.

MOD'IFIABLE, adjective [from modify.] That may be modified or diversified by various forms and differences; as modifiable matter.

MODIFICA'TION, noun [from modify.] The act of modifying, or giving to any thing new forms, or differences of external qualities or modes.

If these powers of cogitation, volition and sensation are not inherent in matter as such, nor acquirable to matter by any motion or modification of it--

1. Particular form or manner; as the various modifications of light or sound. The treaty, in several of its modifications, was held to be objectionable.

2. Moderated; tempered; qualified in exceptionable parts.

MOD'IFIER, noun He or that which modifies.

MOD'IFY, verb transitive [Latin modificor; modus, limit, manner, and facio, to make.]

1. To change the form or external qualities of a thing; to shape; to give a new form of being to; as, to modify matter, light or sound.

2. To vary; to give a new form to any thing; as, to modify the terms of a contract. A prefix modifies the sense of a verb.

3. To moderate; to qualify; to reduce in extent or degree.

Of his grace

He modifies his first severe decree.

MOD'IFY, verb intransitive To extenuate.

MOD'IFYING, participle present tense Changing the external qualities; giving a new form to; moderating.

MODILLION, noun modil'yun. [Latin modiolus, from modus.]

In architecture, an ornament in the cornice of the Ionic, Corinthian and composite columns; a sort of bracket serving to support the projecture of the larmier or drip; a dental.

MO'DISH, adjective [from mode.] According to the mode or customary manner; fashionable; as a modish dress; a modish feast.

MO'DISHLY, adverb Fashionably; in the customary mode.

MO'DISHNESS, noun The state of being fashionable.

1. Affectation of the fashion.

MOD'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin modulor, from modus, limit, measure.]

1. To form sound to a certain key, or to a certain proportion.

2. To very or inflect sound in a natural, customary or musical manner. Thus the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.

Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many.

MOD'ULATED, participle passive Formed to a certain key; varied; inflected.

MOD'ULATING, participle present tense Forming to a certain proportion; varying; inflecting.

MODULA'TION, noun [Latin modulatio.]

1. The act of forming any thing to a certain proportion; as the different proportion and modulation of matter.

2. The act of inflecting the voice in reading or speaking; a rising or falling of the voice.

3. In music, the art of composing melody or harmony agreeable to the laws prescribed by any particular key, or of changing the key, or of passing from one key to another.

Modulation is the manner of ascertaining and managing the modes; or more generally, the art of conducting the harmony and air through several modes in a manner agreeable to the ear and conformed to rules.

4. Sound modulated; melody.

MOD'ULATOR, noun He or that which modulates. The tongue is a principal modulator of the human voice.

MOD'ULE, noun [Latin modulus.] A model or representation.

1. In architecture, a certain measure or size taken at pleasure for regulating the proportion of columns, and the symmetry or disposition of the whole building. The usual module of a column is its semidiameter at the base. This is divided into parts or minutes.

MOD'ULE, verb transitive To model; to shape; to modulate. [Little used.]

MO'DUS, noun [Latin] A compensation for tithes; an equivalent in money or other certain thing, given to a parson or vicar by the owners of land in lieu of tithes. The whole phrase is modus decimandi; but modus alone is commonly used.

MOD'WALL, noun A bird.

MOE, adjective More. [Not used.]

MOGUL', noun The name of a prince or emperor of the nation in Asia called Moguls or Monguls.

MO'HAIR, noun The hair of a kind of goat in Turkey, of which are made camlets, which are sometimes called by the same name.

MOHAM'MEDAN. This word and the name of the Arabian prophet, so called, are written in many different ways. The best authorized and most correct orthography seems to be Mohammed, mohammedan [See mohammedan ]

MOHAM'MEDANISM, noun The religion or doctrines and precepts of Mohammed, contained in a book called the Koran or Alkoran.

MOHAM'MEDANIZE, verb transitive To render conformable to the modes or principles of the Mohammedans.

MO'HAWK

MO'HOCK, noun The appellation given to certain ruffians who infested the streets of London; so called from the nation of Indians of that name in America.

MO'HOCK, n. The appellation given to certain ruffians who infested the streets of London; so called from the nation of Indians of that name in America.

MOI'DORE, noun A gold coin of Portugal, valued at $6, or f1.7s sterling.

MOI'ETY, noun [Latin medietas.] The half; one of two equal parts; as a moiety of an estate, of goods or of profits; the moiety of a jury or of a nation.

MOIL, verb transitive To daub; to make dirty. [Little used.]

1. To weary. [See the next word.]

MOIL, verb intransitive [Gr. labor, combat; to strive, to fight; Latin molior, and miles.] To labor; to toil; to work with painful efforts.

Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

MOIL, noun A spot. [Not in use.]

MOIST, adjective [Latin madeo.]

1. Moderately wet; damp; as a moist atmosphere or air.

Exhalation dusk and moist

2. Containing water or other liquid in a perceptible degree.

MOISTEN, verb transitive mois'n. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.

A pipe a little moistened on the inside.

His bones are moistened with marrow. Job 21:24.

MOIST, as a verb, is obsolete.

MOISTENED, participle passive mois'nd. Made wet in a small degree.

MOISTENER, noun mois'ner. He or that which moistens.

MOISTENING, participle present tense mois'ning. Wetting moderately.

MOIST'FUL, adjective Full of moisture.

MOIST'NESS, noun Dampness; a small degree of wetness.

MOIST'URE, noun A moderate degree of wetness.

Set such plants as require much moisture on sandy, dry grounds.

1. A small quantity of any liquid; as the moisture of the body.

MOIST'Y, adjective Drizzling. [Not in use.]

MOKES, of a net, the meshes. [Not in use.]

MO'KY, adjective Muggy; dark; murky.

MO'LAR, adjective [Latin molaris.] Having power to grind; grinding; as the molar teeth.

MOLASSES, an incorrect orthography of melasses.

MOLD, noun [Latin mollis.]

1. Fine soft earth, or earth easily pulverized, such as constitutes soil; as black mold

A mortal substance of terrestrial mold

2. A substance like down which forms on bodies which lie long in warm and damp air. The microscope exhibits this substance as consisting of small plants.

3. Matter of which any thing is formed.

Nature formed me of her softest mold

MOLD, noun

1. The matrix in which any thing is cast and receives its form. Molds are of various kinds. Molds for casting cannon and various vessels, are composed of some species of earth, particularly clay. Molds for other purposes consist of a cavity in some species of metal, cut or formed to the shape designed, or are otherwise formed, each for its particular use.

2. Cast; form; as a writer of vulgar mold

3. The suture or contexture of the skull.

4. In ship-building, a thin flexible piece of timber, used as a pattern by which to form the curves of the timbers and compassing pieces.

5. Among gold beaters, a number of pieces of vellum or a like substance, laid over one another, between which the leaves of gold and silver are laid for beating.

MOLD, verb transitive To cause to contract mold

1. To cover with mold or soil.

MOLD, verb intransitive To contract mold; to become moldy.

MOLD, verb transitive To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model.

He forgeth and moldeth metals.

Did I request them, Maker, from my clay

To mold me man?

1. To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

MOLDABLE, adjective That may be molded or formed.

MOLDED, participle passive Formed into a particular shape; kneaded.

1. Covered with mold.

MOLDER, noun He who molds or forms into shape.

MOLDER, verb intransitive

1. To turn to dust by natural decay; to crumble; to perish; to waste away by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water. In this manner, animal and vegetable substances molder and so also do stones and shells.

When statues molder and when arches fall.

2. To be diminished; to waste away gradually.

If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing.

MOLDER, verb transitive To turn to dust; to crumble; to waste.

Some felt the silent stroke of moldering age.

MOLDERING, participle present tense Turning to dust; crumbling; wasting away.

MOLDINESS, noun [from moldy.] The state of being moldy.

MOLDING, participle present tense [from mold.] Forming into shape; kneading.

MOLDING, noun Any thing cast in a mold, or which appears to be so; hence, in architecture, a projecture beyond the wall, column, wainscot, etc. an assemblage of which forms a cornice, a door-case, or other decoration.

MOLDY, adjective [from mold.] Overgrown with mold.

MOLE, noun

1. A spot, mark or small permanent protuberance on the human body, from which usually issue one or more hairs.

2. [Latin mola.] A mass of fleshy matter of a spherical figure, generated in the uterus.

MOLE, noun [Latin moles.]

1. A mound or massive work formed of large stones laid in the sea by means of coffer dams, extended either in a right line or an arch of a circle before a port, which it serves to defend from the violent impulse of the waves; thus protecting ships in a harbor. The word is sometimes used for the harbor itself.

2. Among the Romans, a kind of mausoleum, built like a round tower on a square base, insulated, encompassed with columns and covered with a dome.

MOLE, noun A small animal of the genus Talpa, which in search of worms or other insects, forms a road just under the surface of the ground, raising the soil into a little ridge; from which circumstance it is called a mold-warp, or mold-turner. The mole has very small eyes.

Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

MOLE, verb transitive To clear of mole-hills. [Local.]

MO'LECULE, noun A very minute particle of matter. Molecules are elementary, constituent, or integrant. The latter result from the union of the elementary.

MOLEST', verb transitive [Latin molestus, troublesome, molo. See Mill.]

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy.

They have molested the church with needless opposition.

MOLESTA'TION, noun Disturbance; annoyance; uneasiness given. [It usually expresses less than vexation.]

MOLEST'ED, participle passive Disturbed; troubled; annoyed.

MOLEST'ER, noun One that disturbs.

MOLEST'FUL, adjective Troublesome.

MOLEST'ING, participle present tense Disturbing; troubling.

MO'LIEN, noun A flowering tree of China.

MOLIM'INOUS, adjective [from Latin molimen.] Very important. [Not used.]

MO'LINIST, noun A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit, in respect to grace; an opposer of the Jansenists.

MOL'LIENT, adjective [Latin molliens, mollio. See Mellow.]

Softening; assuaging; lessening. [See Emollient, which is generally used.]

MOL'LIFIABLE, adjective [from mollify.] That may be softened.

MOLLIFICA'TION, noun The act of mollifying or softening.

1. Mitigation; an appeasing.

MOL'LIFIED, participle passive Softened; appeased.

MOL'LIFIER, noun That which softens, appeases or mitigates.

1. He that softens, mitigates or pacifies.

MOL'LIFY, verb transitive [Latin mollio.] To soften; to make soft or tender. Isaiah 1:1.

1. To assuage, as pain or irritation.

2. To appease; to pacify; to calm or quiet.

3. To qualify; to reduce in harshness or asperity.

MOLLUS'CA, noun [from Latin mollis, soft.] In zoology, a division or class of animals whose bodies are soft, without an internal skeleton, or articulated covering. Some of them breathe by lungs, others by gills; some live on land, others in water. Some of them are naked; others testaceous or provided with shells. Many of them are furnished with feelers or tentacula.

MOLLUS'CAN

MOLLUS'COUS, adjective Pertaining to the mollusca, or partaking of their properties. [Molluscous is used, but is less analogical than molluscan ]

MOLLUS'COUS, a. Pertaining to the mollusca, or partaking of their properties. [Molluscous is used, but is less analogical than molluscan.]

MOLOS'SUS, noun [Gr.] In Greek and Latin verse, a foot of three long syllables.

MOLT, verb intransitive To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, etc.; as an animal. Fowls molt by losing their feathers, beasts by losing their hair, serpents by casting their skins, and deer their horns. The molting of the hawk is called mewing.

MOLTEN, participle passive of melt. Melted.

1. adjective Made of melted metal; as a molten image.

MOLTING, participle present tense Casting or shedding a natural covering, as hair, feathers, skin or horns.

MOLTING, noun The act or operation by which certain animals, annually or at certain times, cast off or lose their hair, feathers, skins, horns, etc.

MO'LY, noun [Latin from Gr.] Wild garlic, a plant having a bulbous root.

MOLYB'DEN

MOLYB'DENA, noun [Gr. a mass of lead.] An ore of molybdenum, a scarce mineral of a peculiar form, and sometimes confounded with plumbago, from which however it is distinguished by its more shining, scaly appearance, and a more greasy feel.

MOLYB'DENA, n. [Gr. a mass of lead.] An ore of molybdenum, a scarce mineral of a peculiar form, and sometimes confounded with plumbago, from which however it is distinguished by its more shining, scaly appearance, and a more greasy feel.

MOLYB'DENOUS, adjective Pertaining to molybden, or obtained from it. The molybdenous acid is the deutoxyd of molybdenum.

MOLYB'DENUM, noun A metal which has not been reduced into masses of any magnitude, but has been obtained only in small separate globules, in a blackish, brilliant mass. These are brittle and extremely infusible.

The most common natural compound of this metal is a sulphuret.

MOME, noun A dull, silent person; a stupid fellow; a stock; a post.

MO'MENT, noun [Latin momentum. This word is contracted from motamentum, or some other word, the radical verb of which signified to move, rush, drive or fall suddenly, which sense gives that of force. The sense of an instant of time is from falling or rushing, which accords well with that of meet.]

1. The most minute and indivisible part of time; an instant.

In a moment in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Corinthians 15:52.

2. Force; impulsive power.

--Touch with lightest moment of impulse,

His free will.

Little used; but hence,

3. Importance in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value.

It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment to us than the others.

MOMENT'AL, adjective Important. [Not in use.]

MOMENT'ALLY, adverb For a moment.

MOMENTANEOUS, MOMENTANY, not used. [See Momentary.]

MOMENTANEOUS, MOMENTANY not used. [See Momentary.]

MO'MENTARILY, adverb Every moment.

MO'MENTARY, adjective Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as a momentary pang.

Momentary as a sound,

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream.

MO'MENTLY, adverb For a moment.

1. In a moment; every moment. We momently expect the arrival of the mail.

MOMENT'OUS, adjective Important; weighty; of consequence. Let no false step be made in the momentous concerns of the soul.

MOMENT'UM, noun [Latin] In mechanics, impetus; the quantity of motion in a moving body. This is always equal to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity.

MOM'MERY

MO'MOT, noun The name of a genus of birds in S. America, whose beak and tongue resemble the toucan's.

MO'MOT, n. The name of a genus of birds in S. America, whose beak and tongue resemble the toucan's.

MON'ACHAL, adjective [Latin monachus; Gr. a monk.]

Pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

MON'ACHISM, noun The state of monks; a monastic life.

MON'AD, noun [Gr. unity, from sole.]

1. An ultimate atom, or simple unextended point.

2. An indivisible thing.

MON'ADELPH, noun [Gr. sole, and brother.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are united in one body by the filaments.

MONADELPH'IAN, adjective Having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

MONAD'IC

MONAD'ICAL, adjective Having the nature or character of a monad.

MONAD'ICAL, a. Having the nature or character of a monad.

MONAN'DER, noun [Gr. one, and a male.]

In botany, a plant having one stamen only.

MONAN'DRIAN, adjective Having one stamen only.

MON'ARCH, noun [Gr. sole, and a chief.]

1. The prince or ruler of a nation, who exercises all the powers of government without control, or who is vested with absolute sovereign power; an emperor, king or prince invested with

an unlimited power. This is the strict sense of the word.

2. A king or prince, the supreme magistrate of a nation, whose powers are in some respects limited by the constitution of the government. Thus we call the king of Great Britain a monarch although he can make no law without the consent of parliament.

3. He or that which is superior to others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest; a lion the monarch of wild beasts.

4. One that presides; president; as Bacchus, monarch of the vine.

MON'ARCH, adjective Supreme; ruling; as a monarch savage.

MONARCH'AL, adjective Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovereign; regal; imperial.

Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised

Above his fellows, with monarchial pride--

MON'ARCHESS, noun A female monarch; an empress.

MONARCH'IC, adjective Vested in a single ruler; as monarchical government or power.

1. Pertaining to monarchy.

MONARCH'ICAL, a. Vested in a single ruler; as monarchical government or power.

MON'ARCHIST, noun An advocate of monarchy.

MON'ARCHIZE, verb intransitive

1. To play the king; to act the monarch.

2. To convert to a monarchy.

MON'ARCHIZE, verb transitive To rule; to govern.

MON'ARCHY, noun [Gr. See Monarch.]

1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. Such a state is usually called an empire or a kingdom; and we usually give this denomination to a large state only. But the same name is sometimes given to a kingdom or state in which the power of the king or supreme magistrate is limited by a constitution, or by fundamental laws. Such is the British monarchy Hence we speak of absolute or despotic monarchies, and of limited monarchies.

A free government has a great advantage over a simple monarchy

2. A kingdom; an empire.

MON'ASTERY, noun [Low Latin monasterium; Gr. from sole, separate.]

A house of religious retirement, or of seclusion from ordinary temporal concerns, whether an abbey, a priory or a nunnery. The word is usually applied to the houses of monks, mendicant friars and nuns.

MONAS'TIC

MONAS'TICAL, adjective [Low Latin monasticus; Gr. sole, separate.]

Pertaining to monasteries, monks and nuns; recluse; secluded from the temporal concerns of life and devoted to religion; as a monastic life; monastic orders.

MONAS'TIC, noun A monk.

MONAS'TICAL, a. [Low L. monasticus; Gr. sole, separate.]

Pertaining to monasteries, monks and nuns; recluse; secluded from the temporal concerns of life and devoted to religion; as a monastic life; monastic orders.

MONAS'TICALLY, adverb Reclusely; in a retired manner; in the manner of monks.

MONAS'TICISM, noun Monastic life.

MONDAY, noun The second day of the week.

MONDE, noun The world; also, a glove, an ensign of authority.

MONE'CIAN, noun [Gr. sole and house.] In botany, one of that class of plants, whose male and female flowers are on the same plant.

MONE'CIAN, adjective Pertaining to the class of plants above described.

MONEY, noun plural moneys.

1. Coin; stamped metal; any piece of metal, usually gold, silver or copper, stamped by public authority, and used as the medium of commerce. We sometimes give the name of money to other coined metals, and to any other material which rude nations use a medium of trade. But among modern commercial nations, gold, silver and copper are the only metals used for this purpose. Gold and silver, containing great value in small compass, and being therefore of easy conveyance, and being also durable and little liable to diminution by use, are the most convenient metals for coin or money which is the representative of commodities of all kinds, of lands, and of every thing that is capable of being transferred in commerce.

2. Bank notes or bills of credit issued by authority, and exchangeable for coin or redeemable, are also called money; as such notes in modern times represent coin, and are used as a substitute for it. If a man pays in hand for goods in bank notes which are current, he is said to pay in ready money

3. Wealth; affluence.

MONEY can neither open new avenues to pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish.

MONEYAGE, noun Anciently, in England, a general land tax levied by the two first Norman kings, a shilling on each hearth.

MONEYED, adjective Rich in money; having money; able to command money; used often in opposition to such as have their wealth in real estate.

Invite moneyed men to lend to the merchants.

1. Consisting in money; as moneyed capital.

MONEYER, noun A banker; one who deals in money.

1. A coiner of money. [Little used in either sense.]

MONEYLESS, adjective Destitute of money; pennyless.

MONGER, noun A trader; a dealer; now used only or chiefly in composition; as a fish-monger, iron-monger, news-monger, cheese-monger.

MONGREL, adjective [See Mingle.] Of a mixed breed; of different kinds.

MONGREL, noun An animal of a mixed breed.

MONIL'IFORM, adjective [Latin monile, a necklace, and form.]

Like a necklace.

MON'IMENT, noun [Latin monimemtum, from moneo, to admonish.]

1. An inscription; something to preserve memory.

2. A mark; an image; a superscription.

MON'ISH, verb transitive To admonish; to warn. [Not used.] [See Admonish.]

MON'ISHER, noun An admonisher, which see.

MON'ISHMENT, noun Admonition.

MONI'TION, noun [Latin monitio.]

1. Warning; instruction given by way of caution; as the monitions of a friend.

2. Information; indication.

We have no visible monitions of other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness.

MON'ITIVE, adjective Admonitory; conveying admonition.

MON'ITOR, noun [Latin] One who warns of faults or informs of duty; one who gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

You need not be a monitor to the king.

1. In schools, a person authorized to look to the scholars in the absence of the instructor, or to notice the absence of faults of the scholars; or to instruct a division of class.

MONITORIAL, adjective

1. Relating to a monitor.

2. Performed by monitors or a monitor; as monitorial instruction.

3. Conducted by or under the instruction of monitors, or subordinate teachers; as monitorial schools.

MON'ITORY, adjective Giving admonition; warning; instructing by way of caution.

Losses, miscarriages and disappointments are monitory and instructive.

MON'ITORY, noun Admonition; warning.

MON'ITRESS, noun A female monitor.

MONK, noun [Latin monachus.] A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion. Monks usually live in monasteries, on entering which they take a vow to observe certain rules. Some however live as hermits in solitude, and others have lived a strolling life without any fixed residence.

MONKERY, noun The life of monks; the monastic life.

MONKEY, noun The popular name of the ape and baboon. But in zoology, monkey is more properly the name of those animals of the genus Simia, which have long tails. Ray distributes animals of this kind into three classes; apes which have no tails; monkeys with long tails; and baboons with short tails.

1. A name of contempt or of slight kindness.

MONKHOOD, noun The character of a monk.

MONKISH, adjective Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

MONK'S HEAD, noun A plant of the genus Leontodon.

MONK'S HOOD, noun A plant of the genus Aconitum.

MONK'S RHUBARB, noun A plant of the genus Rumex, a species of dock.

MONOC'EROS, noun [Gr. sole and horn.] The unicorn.

MON'OCHORD, noun [Gr. sole, only, and chord.] A musical instrument of one string. As its name imports, it had originally but one string; but it is generally constructed with two, by means of which the musician is better enabled to try the proportions of sounds and intervals, and judge of the harmony of two tempered notes.

In the proper sense of the word, a trumpet marine is considered a monochord

MONOCHROMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. sole, and color.] Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.

MON'OCOTYLE

MONOCOTYL'EDON, noun [Gr. sole, and a hollow.] In botany, a plant with only one cotyledon or seed-lobe.

MONOCOTYL'EDON, n. [Gr. sole, and a hollow.] In botany, a plant with only one cotyledon or seed-lobe.

MONOCOTYLED'ONOUS, adjective Having only one seed-lobe or seminal leaf.

MONOC'ULAR

MON'OCULE, noun [supra.] An insect with one eye.

MON'OCULE, n. [supra.] An insect with one eye.

MONOC'ULOUS, adjective [Gr. sole, and Latin oculus, eye.]

Having one eye only.

MONODACTYLOUS, adjective [Gr.] Having one toe only, as an animal.

MONODIST, noun One who writes a monody.

MON'ODON, noun [Gr. having one tooth or shoot.] The unicorn fish, or sea-unicorn, which has a remarkable horn projecting from its head. [This horn is really a tusk, of which there are two, but only one of them is usually developed.]

It is called also the monoceros, or horned narwhal. Its usual size is form sixteen to twenty feet.

MON'ODY, noun [Gr. sole, and song.]

A song or poem sung by one person only.

MON'OGAM, noun [Gr. sole, and marriage.] In botany, a plant that has a simple flower, though the anthers are united.

MONOGAM'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the order of plants that have a simple flower.

MONOG'AMIST, noun [supra.] One who disallows second marriages.

MONOG'AMOUS, adjective Having one wife only and not permitted to marry a second.

MONOG'AMY, noun [supra.] The marriage of one wife only, or the state of such as are restrained to a single wife.

MON'OGRAM, noun [Gr. sole and letter.] A character or cypher composed of one, two or more letters interwoven, being an abbreviation of a name; used on seals, etc.

MON'OGRAMMAL, adjective Sketching in the manner of a monogram.

MON'OGRAPH, noun [Gr. sole, and to describe.] An account or description of a single thing or class of things; as a monograph of violets in botany; a monograph of an Egyptian mummy.

MONOGRAPH'IC

MONOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Drawn in lines without colors.

1. Pertaining to a monograph.

MONOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Drawn in lines without colors.

MONOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. sole, and to describe.] A description drawn in lines without colors.

MON'OGYN, noun [Gr. sole, and a female.] In botany, a plant having only one style or stigma.

MONOGYN'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the order monogynia; having only one style or stigma.

MONOLOGUE, noun mon'olog. [Gr. sole, and speech.]

1. A soliloquy; a speech uttered by a person alone.

2. A poem, song or scene composed for a single performer.

MONOM'ACHY, noun [Gr. sole, and combat.] A duel; a single combat.

MON'OME, noun [Gr. sole, and name.] In algebra, a quantity that has one name only.

MONO'MIAL, noun In algebra, a quantity expressed by one name or letter.

MONOP'ATHY, noun [Gr. sole, and suffering.] Solitary suffering or sensibility.

MONOPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. only, and flower-leaf.] In botany, having only one petal, or a one-petaled corol; as a monopetalous corol or flower.

MON'OPHTHONG, noun [Gr. sole, and sound.] A simple vowel-sound.

MONOPHTHON'GAL, adjective Consisting of a simple vowel-sound.

MONOPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. sole, and leaf.] Having one leaf only.

MONOPH'YSITE, noun [Gr. only, and nature.] One who maintains that Jesus Christ had but one nature, or that the human and divine nature were so united as to form one nature only.

MONOP'OLIST

MONOP'OLIZE, verb transitive [Gr. sole, and to sell.]

1. To purchase or obtain possession of the whole of any commodity or goods in market with the view of selling them at advanced prices, and of having the power of commanding the prices; as, to monopolize sugar or tea.

2. To engross or obtain by any means the exclusive right of trading to any place, and the sole power of vending any commodity or goods in a particular place or country; as, to monopolize the India or Levant trade.

3. To obtain the whole; as, to monopolize advantages.

MONOP'OLIZE, v.t. [Gr. sole, and to sell.]

MONOP'OLIZER, noun One that monopolizes; a person who engrosses a commodity by purchasing the whole of that article in market for the purpose of selling it at an advanced price; or one who has a license or privilege granted by authority, for the sole buying or selling of any commodity. The man who retains in his hands his own produce or manufacture, is not a monopolist within the meaning of the laws for preventing monopolies.

MONOP'OLY, noun [Latin monopolium.] The sole power of vending any species of goods, obtained either by engrossing the articles in market by purchase, or by a license from the government confirming this privilege. Thus the East India Company in Great Britain has a monopoly of the trade to the East Indies, granted to them by charter. Monopolies by individuals obtained by engrossing, are an offense prohibited by law. But a man has by natural right the exclusive power of vending his own produce or manufactures, and to retain that exclusive right is not a monopoly within the meaning of law.

MONOP'TOTE, noun [Gr. only, and case.] A noun having only one oblique case.

MONOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. only, and seed.] Having one seed only.

MON'OSTICH, noun [Gr. only, and verse.] A composition consisting of one verse only.

MONOSTROPH'IC, adjective [Gr. having one strophe.] Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.

MONOSYLLAB'IC, adjective [See Monosyllable.]

1. Consisting of one syllable; as a monosyllabic word.

2. Consisting of words of one syllable; as a monosyllabic verse.

MONOSYL'LABLE, noun [Gr. only, and a syllable.]

A word of one syllable.

MONOSYL'LABLED, adjective Formed into one syllable.

MON'OTHEISM, noun [Gr. only, and God.] The doctrine or belief of the existence of one God only.

MONOTH'ELITE, noun [Gr. one, and will.] One who holds that Christ had but one will.

MON'OTONE, noun [See Monotony.] In rhetoric, a sameness of sound, or the utterance of successive syllables on one unvaried key, without inflection or cadence.

MONOTON'IC, adjective Monotonous. [Little used.]

MONOT'ONOUS, adjective Continued in the same tone without inflection or cadence; unvaried in tone.

MONOT'ONOUSLY, adverb With one uniform tone; without inflection of voice.

MONOT'ONY, noun [Gr. sole, and sound.]

1. Uniformity of tone or sound; want of inflections of voice in speaking; want of cadence or modulation.

2. Uniformity; sameness.

At sea, every thing that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention.

MONSIEUR, noun Sir; Mr.

MONSOON', noun A periodical wind, blowing six months from the same quarter or point of the compass, then changing and blowing the same time from the opposite quarter. The monsoons prevail in the East Indies, and are called also trade winds. But we usually give the denomination of trade winds to those which blow the whole year from the same point, as the winds within the tropics on the Atlantic.

MON'STER, noun [Latin monstrum, from monstro, to show. So we say in English, a sight. See Muster.]

1. An animal produced with a shape or with parts that are not natural, as when the body is ill formed or distorted, or the limbs too few or too many, or when any part is extravagantly out of proportion, either through defect or excess.

2. Any unnatural production; something greatly deformed. Monsters are common in the vegetable kingdom.

3. A person so wicked as to appear horrible; one unnaturally wicked or mischievous. So a parricide is called a monster

MON'STER, verb transitive To make monstrous. [Not used.]

MONSTROS'ITY, noun The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature.

We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast.

1. An unnatural production; that which is monstrous.

Fabri arranges distortions, gibbosities, tumors, etc. in the class of morbific monstrosities.

A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species.

MON'STROUS, adjective [Latin monstrosus.] Unnatural in form; out of the common course of nature; as a monstrous birth or production.

1. Strange; very wonderful; generally expressive of dislike.

2. Enormous; huge; extraordinary; as a monstrous highth; a monstrous tree or mountain.

3. Shocking to the sight or other senses; hateful.

MON'STROUS, adverb Exceedingly; very much; as monstrous hard; monstrous thick.

And will be monstrous witty on the poor.

[This use is colloquial and vulgar.]

MON'STROUSLY, adverb In a manner out of the common order of nature; hence, shockingly; terribly; hideously; horribly; as a man monstrously wicked.

1. To a great degree; enormously; extravagantly.

Who with his wife is monstrously in love.

MON'STROUSNESS, noun The state of being monstrous.

1. Enormity; irregular nature or behavior.

MONTAN'IC, adjective [Latin montanus, from mons, mountain.] Pertaining to mountains; consisting in mountains.

MON'TANISM, noun The tenets of Montanus.

MON'TANIST, noun A follower of the heresiarch Montanus, a Phrygian by birth, who pretended he was inspired by the Holy Spirit and instructed in several points not revealed to the apostles. His sect sprung up in the second century.

MONTANIST'IC, adjective Pertaining to the heresy of Montanus.

MON'TANIZE, verb intransitive To follow the opinions of Montanus.

MONT'ANT, noun A term in fencing.

MONTE'RO, noun A horseman's cap.

MONTETH', noun A vessel in which glasses are washed; so called from the name of the inventor.

MONTH, noun [Latin mensis; Gr. a month from the moon.] A space or period of time constituting a division of the year. month originally signified the time of one revolution of the moon, a lunation, or the period from one change or conjunction of the moon with the sun to another, a period of 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 5 seconds. This is the periodical month or as we generally call it, the lunar month In this sense we still use the word month But we also apply the term to the space of time in which the sun passes through one sign, or a twelfth part of the zodiac. This period contains 30 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, 5 seconds, and it called a solar month In the year, there are twelve solar months, and thirteen lunar months.

In popular language, four weeks are called a month being nearly the length of the lunar month A calendar month differs in some degree from a solar month; consisting of twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty or thirty one days, as the months stand in calendars or almanacs.

MONTHLY, adjective Continued a month or performed in a month; as the monthly revolution of the moon.

1. Done or happening once a month, or every month; as the monthly concert of prayer; a monthly visit.

MONTHLY, adverb Once a month; in every month. The moon changes monthly

1. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [Not used.]

MONTM'ARTRITE, noun A mineral of a yellowish color, occurring massive, and found at Montmartre, near Paris. It is soft, but resists the weather. It is a compound of the sulphate and carbonate of lime.

MONTOIR, noun In horsemanship, a stone used for aiding to mount a horse.

MON'UMENT, noun [Latin monumentum, from moneo, to admonish or remind.]

1. Any thing by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated; a building, stone or other thing placed or erected to remind men of the person who raised it, or of a person deceased, or of any remarkable event; as a mausoleum, a pillar, a pyramid, a triumphal arch, a tombstone and the like. A pillar of 200 feet in highth, composed of Portland stone, was erected in London as a monument to preserve the memory of the great conflagration in 1666. A monument is erected on Bunker Hill to commemorate the battle of June 17, 1775.

2. A stone or a heap of stones or other durable thing, intended to mark the bounds of states, towns or distinct possessions, and preserve the memory of divisional lines.

3. A thing that reminds or gives notice.

MONUMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to a monument; as a monumental inscription.

1. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.

Of pine or monumental oak.

A work outlasting monumental brass.

2. Belonging to a tomb; as a monumental rest.

MOOD, noun [Latin modus. See Mode.]

1. The form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, and their quality, as affirmative or negative.

2. Style of music.

3. The variation of a verb to express manner of action or being. [See Mode.]

In the foregoing senses, and in all cases, this word when derived from the Latin modus, ought to be written mode, it being a distinct word from the following.

MOOD, noun [Latin animus.]

1. Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as a melancholy mood; an angry mood; a suppliant mood

2. Anger; heat of temper.

[In this sense little used, unless qualified by an adjective.]

MOOD'ILY, adverb [from moody.] Sadly.

MOOD'INESS, noun Anger; peevishness.

MOOD'Y, adjective Angry; peevish; fretful; out of humor.

Every peevish moody malcontent.

1. Mental; intellectual; as moody food.

2. Sad; pensive.

3. Violent; furious.

MOON, noun

1. The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from the earth is 60 1/2 semidiameters of the earth, or 240, 000 miles. Its revolution round the earth in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, constitutes the lunar month.

2. A month. This is the sense in which rude nations use the name of the moon; as seven moons.

Half-moon, in fortification, a figure resembling a crescent.

MOON'-BEAM, noun A ray of light from the moon

MOON'-CALF, noun A monster; a false conception.

1. A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.

2. A dolt; a stupid fellow.

MOON'ED, adjective Taken for the moon.

MOON'ET, noun A little moon.

MOON'-EYE, noun An eye affected by the moon.

MOON'-EYED, adjective Having eyes affected by the revolutions of the moon.

1. Dim-eyed; purblind.

MOON'-FISH, noun A fish whose tail is shaped like a half-moon.

MOON'ISH, adjective Like the moon; variable.

MOON'LESS, adjective Not favored with moonlight.

MOON'LIGHT, noun The light afforded by the moon.

MOON'LIGHT, adjective Illuminated by the moon; as moonlight revels.

MOON'LING, noun A simpleton.

MOON'LOVED, adjective Loved when the moon shines.

MOON'-SAD, noun A plant of the genus Menispermum, having a rosaceous flower.

MOON'SHINE, noun The light of the moon.

1. In burlesque, a month.

A matter of moonshine a matter of no consequence or of indifference.

MOON'SHINE

MOON'SHINY, adjective Illuminated by the moon; as a fair moonshine night.

I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

MOON'STONE, noun A variety of adularia, of a white color, or a yellowish or greenish white, somewhat iridescent, found in blunt amorphous masses, or crystallized in truncated rhomboidal prisms, or in rectangular tables, or in hexahedral prisms beveled at both ends. The surface is often sulcated.

MOON'STRUCK, adjective Affected by the influence of the moon; lunatic; as moonstruck madness.

MOON'Y, adjective Lunated; having a crescent for a standard; in resemblance of the moon; as the moony troops or moony host of the sultans of Turkey.

MOOR, noun

1. A tract of land overrun with heath.

2. A marsh; a fen; a tract of wet low ground, or ground covered with stagnant water.

MOOR, noun [Gr. dark, obscure.] A native of the northern coast of Africa, called by the Romans from the color of the people, Mauritania, the country of dark-complexioned people. The same country is now called Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, etc.

MOOR, verb transitive [Latin moror.] To confine or secure a ship in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by chains. A ship is never said to be moored, when she rides by a single anchor.

MOOR, verb intransitive To be confined by cables or chains.

On oozy ground his galleys moor

MOOR'COCK

MOOR'ED, participle passive Made fast in a station by cables or chains.

MOOR'ED, pp. Made fast in a station by cables or chains.

MOOR'FOWL

MOOR'HEN, noun A fowl of the genus Tetrao, found in moors; red-game; gor-cock.

MOOR'HEN, n. A fowl of the genus Tetrao, found in moors; red-game; gor-cock.

MOOR'ING, participle present tense Confining to a station by cables or chains.

MOOR'ING, noun In seamen's language, moorings are the anchors, chains and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbor to confine a ship.

MOOR'ISH, adjective Marshy; fenny; watery.

Along the moorish fens.

1. Pertaining to the Moors in Africa.

MOOR'LAND, noun A marsh or tract of low water ground.

1. Land rising into moderate hills, foul, cold and full of bogs, as in Staffordshire, England.

MOOR'STONE, noun A species of granite.

MOOR'Y, adjective Marshy; fenny; boggy; watery.

As when thick mists arise from moory vales.

MOOSE, noun moos. [a native Indian name.]

An animal of the genus Cervus, and the largest of the deer kind, growing sometimes to the highth of 17 hands, and weighing 1200 pounds. This animal has palmated horns, with a short thick neck, and an upright mane of a light brown color. The eyes are small, the ears a foot long, very broad and slouching; the upper lip is square, hangs over the lower one, and has a deep sulcus in the middle so as to appear bifid. This animal inhabits cold northern climates, being found in the American forests of Canada and New England, and in the corresponding latitudes of Europe and Asia. It is the elk of Europe.

MOOT, verb transitive [Latin contra.] To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT, verb intransitive To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

MOOT

MOOT'ED, participle passive Debated; disputed; controverted.

MOOT'ER, noun A disputer of a mooted case.

MOOT'ING, participle present tense Disputing; debating for exercise.

MOOT'ING, noun The exercise of disputing.

MOP, noun [Latin mappa.] A piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums or coarse yarn fastened to a handle and used for cleaning floors.

1. A wry mouth. [Not used.]

MOP, verb transitive To rub or wipe with a mop

MOP, verb intransitive To make a wry mouth. [Not used.]

MOPE, verb intransitive [I have not found this word, unless in the D. moppen, to pout.]

To be very stupid; to be very dull; to drowse; to be spiritless or gloomy.

Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy.

--Or but a sickly part of one true sense

Could not so mope

MOPE, verb transitive To make stupid or spiritless.

MOPE, noun A stupid or low spirited person; a drone.

MO'PED, participle passive Made stupid.

A young, low spirited, moped creature.

MO'PING, participle present tense Affected with dullness; spiritless; gloomy.

MO'PISH, adjective Dull; spiritless; stupid; dejected.

MO'PISHNESS, noun Dejection; dullness; stupidity.

MOP'PET

MOP'SEY, noun [from mop; Latin mappa.] A rag-baby; a puppet made of cloth; a fondling name of a little girl.

MOP'SEY, n. [from mop; L. mappa.] A rag-baby; a puppet made of cloth; a fondling name of a little girl.

MO'PUS, noun A mope; a drone.

MOR'AL, adjective [Latin moralis, from mos, moris, manner.]

1. Relating to the practice, manners or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, and with reference to right and wrong. The word moral is applicable to actions that are good or evil, virtuous or vicious, and has reference to the law of God as the standard by which their character is to be determined. The word however may be applied to actions which affect only, or primarily and principally, a person's own happiness.

Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.

Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.

2. Subject to the moral law and capable of moral actions; bound to perform social duties; as a moral agent or being.

3. Supported by the evidence of reason or probability; founded on experience of the ordinary course of things; as moral certainty, distinguished from physical or mathematical certainty or demonstration.

Physical and mathematical certainty may be stiled infallible, and moral certainty may be properly stiled indubitable.

Things of a moral nature may be proved by moral arguments.

4. Conformed to rules of right, or to the divine law respecting social duties; virtuous; just; as when we say, a particular action is not moral

5. Conformed to law and right in exterior deportment; as, he leads a good moral life.

6. Reasoning or instructing with regard to vice and virtue.

While thou, a moral fool, sitt'st still and cri'st.

7. In general, moral denotes something which respects the conduct of men and their relations as social beings whose actions have a bearing on each others's rights and happiness, and are therefore right or wrong, virtuous or vicious; as moral character; moral views; moral knowledge; moral sentiments; moral maxims; moral approbation; moral doubts; moral justice; moral virtue; moral obligations, etc. Or moral denotes something which respects the intellectual powers of man, as distinct form his physical powers. Thus we speak of moral evidence, moral arguments, moral persuasion, moral certainty, moral force; which operate on the mind.

Moral law, the law of God which prescribes the moral or social duties, and prohibits the transgression of them.

Moral sense, an innate or natural sense of right and wrong; an instinctive perception of what is right or wrong in moral conduct, which approves some actions and disapproves others, independent of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law. But the existence of any such moral sense is very much doubted.

Moral philosophy, the science of manners and duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a social being, of the duties which result form his social relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.

MOR'AL, noun Morality; the doctrine or practice of the duties of life. [Not much used.]

1. The doctrine inculcated by a fiction; the accommodation of a fable to form the morals.

The moral is the first business of the poet.

MOR'AL, verb intransitive To moralize. [Not in use.]

MOR'ALER, noun A moralizer. [Not in use.]

MOR'ALIST, noun

1. One who teaches the duties of life, or a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.

2. One who practices moral duties; a mere moral person.

MORAL'ITY, noun The doctrine or system of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

The system of morality to be gathered from the writings of ancient sages, falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

1. The practice of the moral duties; virtue. We often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the divine law, or to the principles of rectitude. This conformity implies that the act must be performed by a free agent, and from a motive of obedience to the divine will. This is the strict theological and scriptural sense of morality But we often apply the word to actions which accord with justice and human laws, without reference to the motives form which they proceed.

MORALIZA'TION, noun Moral reflections, or the act of making moral reflections.

1. Explanation in a moral sense.

MOR'ALIZE, verb transitive

1. To apply to a moral purpose, or to explain in a moral sense.

This fable is moralized in a common proverb.

Did he not moralize this spectacle?

2. To furnish with manners or examples.

3. To render moral or virtuous; to correct the morals of.

It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.

[This sense, though the most strictly etymological, is rare, or to make moral reflections.

MOR'ALIZE, verb intransitive To speak or write on moral subjects, or to make moral reflections.

MOR'ALIZED, participle passive Applied to a moral purpose, or explained in a moral sense.

1. Rendered moral or less corrupt.

MOR'ALIZER, noun One who moralizes.

MOR'ALIZING, participle present tense Applying to a moral purpose, or explaining in a moral sense.

1. Making moral reflections in words or writing.

MOR'ALIZING, noun The application of facts to a moral purpose, or the making of moral reflections.

His moralizings are always pleasant, and he does not spare, where he thinks it useful to moralize.

MOR'ALLY, adverb In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.

By good, morally so called, bonum honestum ought chiefly to be understood.

1. Virtuously; honestly; according to moral rules in external department. He resolves to live morally

2. According to the rules of the divine law. An action is not in strictness morally good, which does not proceed from good motives, or a principle of love and obedience to the divine law and to the lawgiver. Charity bestowed to gratify pride, or justice done by compulsion, cannot be morally good in the sight of God.

3. According to the evidence of human reason or of probabilities, founded on facts or experience; according to the usual course of things and human judgment.

It is morally impossible for a hypocrite to keep himself long on his guard.

From the nature of things, I am morally certain that a mind free from passion and prejudice is more fit to pass a true judgment than one biased by affection and interest.

MOR'ALS, noun plural The practice of the duties of life; as a man of correct morals

1. Conduct; behavior; course of life, in regard to good and evil.

Some, as corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, have been solicitous to have their children virtuously and piously educated.

What can laws do without morals?

COMMORANCE, MORANCY, noun A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; abode; habitation.

Commorancy consists in usually lying there.

MORASS', noun A marsh; a fen; a tract of low moist ground.

MORASS'Y, adjective Marshy; fenny.

MORA'VIAN, adjective Pertaining to Moravia.

MORA'VIAN, noun One of a religious sect, called the United Brethren.

MOR'BID, adjective [Latin morbidus, form morbus, a disease, from the root of morior, to die.] Diseased; sickly; not sound and healthful; as morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility.

MOR'BIDNESS, noun A state of being diseased, sickly or unsound.

MORBIF'IC

MORBIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin morbus, disease, and facio, to make.

Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as morbific matter.

MORBIF'ICAL, a. [L. morbus, disease, and facio, to make.

Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as morbific matter.

MORBIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin morbilli, measles, a medical term from morbus.]

Pertaining to the measles; measly; partaking of the nature of measles, or resembling the eruptions of that disease.

MORBO'SE, adjective [Latin morbosus.] Proceeding from disease; unsound; unhealthy; as a morbose tumor or excrescence in plants.

MORBOS'ITY, noun A diseased state.

MORDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mordax, infra.] Biting; given to biting.

MORDA'CIOUSLY, adverb In a biting manner; sarcastically.

MORDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mordacitas, from mordeo, to bite.]

The quality of biting.

MOR'DANT, noun A substance which has a chimical affinity for coloring matter and serves to fix colors; such as alum.

MOR'DICANCY, noun A biting quality; corrosiveness.

MOR'DICANT, adjective [Latin mordeo, to bite.] Biting; acrid; as the mordicant quality of a body.

MORDICA'TION, noun [from Latin mordeo, to bite.] The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.

Another cause is the mordication of the orifices, especially of the mesentery veins.

MORE, adjective [Latin magis; mare for mager; but this is conjecture.]

1. Greater in quality, degree or amount; in a general sense; as more land; more water; more courage; more virtue; more power or wisdom; more love; more praise; more light. It is applicable to every thing, material or immaterial.

2. Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; as more men; more virtues; more years.

The children of Israel are more than we. Exodus 1:9.

3. Greater.

The more part knew not why they had come together. Acts 19:32.

4. Added to some former number; additional.

But Montague demands one labor more

MORE, adverb To a greater degree.

Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. Genesis 37:3.

1. It is used with the.

They hated him yet the more Genesis 37:3.

2. It is used to modify an adjective and form the comparative degree, having the same force and effect as the termination er, in monosyllables; as more wise; more illustrious; more contemptible; more durable. It may be used before all adjectives which admit of comparison, and must be used before polysyllables.

3. A second or another time; again. I expected to hear of him mo more

The dove returned not to him again any more Genesis 8:12.

No more not continuing; existing no longer; gone; deceased or destroyed. Cassius is no more Troy is no more

No more is used in commands, in an elliptical form of address. No more! that is, say no more; let me hear no more In this use however, more when the sentence is complete, is a noun or substitute for a noun.

Much more in a greater degree or with more readiness; more abundantly.

MORE and more with continual increase.

Amon trespassed more and more 2 Chronicles 33:8.

MORE, a noun or substitute for a noun. A greater quantity, amount or number.

They gathered some more some less. Exodus 1:96.

They were more who died by hail-stones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. Joshua 10:11.

God do so to thee and more also. 1 Samuel 3:17.

There were more than forty who had made this conspiracy. Acts 23:13.

1. Greater thing; other thing; something further. Here we rest; we can do no more He conquered his enemies; he did more he conquered himself.

MORE, verb transitive To make more

MOREE'N, noun A stuff used for curtains, etc.

MOREL', noun Garden nightshade, a plant of the genus Solanum.

1. A kind of cherry.

MORELAND. [See Moorland.]

MO'RENESS, noun Greatness.

MOREO'VER, adverb [more and over.] Beyond what has been said; further; besides; also; likewise.

Moreover, by them is thy servant warned. Psalms 19:11.

MORESK'

MORESQUE, adjective Done after the manner of the Moors.

MORESK', noun A species of painting or carving done after the Moorish manner, consisting of grotesque pieces and compartments promiscuously interspersed.

MORESQUE, a. Done after the manner of the Moors.

MOR'GLAY, noun [Latin mors, death.] A deadly weapon.

MOR'GRAY, noun A Mediterranean fish of a pale reddish gray color, spotted with brown and white. It is called also the rough hound-fish. It weighs about twenty ounces and is well tasted.

MORICE. [See Morisco.]

MORIGERA'TION, noun [See Morigerous.] Obsequiousness; obedience.

MORIG'EROUS, adjective [Latin morigerus; mos, moris, manner, and gero, to carry.] Obedient; obsequious. [Little used.]

MOR'IL, noun A mushroom of the size of a walnut, abounding with little holes.

MORIL'LIFORM, adjective Having the form of the moril, a mushroom.

MOR'ILLON, noun A fowl of the genus Anas.

MOR'INEL, noun A bird, called also dotteril.

MORIN'GA, noun A plant.

MOR'ION, noun Armor for the head; a helmet or casque to defend the head.

MORIS'CO

MO'RISK, noun [from Moor.] A dance, or a dancer of the morris or moorish dance. [See Morris.]

MO'RISK, n. [from Moor.] A dance, or a dancer of the morris or moorish dance. [See Morris.]

MOR'KIN, noun [Latin mortuus, dead, and kin, kind.]

Among hunters, a beast that has died by sickness or mischance.

MOR'LAND

MO'RELAND, noun Moorland, which see.

MOR'LING noun Wool plucked from a dead sheep.

MOR'MO, noun A bugbear; false terror.

MORN, noun The first part of the day; the morning; a word used chiefly in poetry.

And blooming peach shall ever bless thy morn

MORN'ING, noun

1. The first part of the day, beginning at twelve o'clock at night and extending to twelve at noon. Thus we say, a star rises at one o'clock in the morning In a more limited sense, morning is the time beginning an hour or two before sunrise, or at break of day, and extending to the hour of breakfast and of beginning the labors of the day. Among men of business in large cities, the morning extends to the hour of dining.

2. The first or early part.

In the morning of life, devote yourself to the service of the Most High.

MORN'ING, adjective Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as morning dew; morning light; morning service.

She looks as clear

As morning roses newly washed with dew.

MOROC'CO, noun A fine kind of leather; leather dressed in a particular manner; said to be borrowed from the Moors.

MORO'SE, adjective [Latin morosus. morose then is from the root of Latin moror, to delay, stop, hinder, whence commoror, to dwell; Eng. demur.]

Of a sour temper; severe; sullen and austere.

Some have deserved censure for a morose and affected taciturnity; others have made speeches though they had nothing to say.

MORO'SELY, adverb Sourly; with sullen austerity.

MORO'SENESS, noun Sourness of temper; sullenness. moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity or ill humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.

Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness

MOROS'ITY, noun Moroseness. [Not used.]

MOROX'YLIC, adjective moroxylic acid is obtained from a saline exsudation from the morrus alba or white mulberry.

MOR'PHEW, noun A scurf on the face.

MOR'PHEW, verb transitive To cover with scurf.

MOR'PHIA, noun A vegetable alkali extracted from opium, of which it constitutes the narcotic principle.

MOR'RICE

MOR'RIS

MOR'RIS-DANCE, noun A moorish dance; a dance in imitation of the Moors, as sarabands, chacons, etc. usually performed with castanets, tambours, etc. by young men in their shirts, with bells at their feet and ribbons of various colors tied round their arms and flung across their shoulders.

Nine men's morrice a kind or play with nine holes in the ground.

MOR'RIS

MOR'ROW, noun

1. The day next after the present.

Till this stormy night is gone,

And th' eternal morrow dawn.

This word is often preceded by on or to.

The Lord did that thing on the morrow Exodus 9:5.

To morrow shall this sign be. Exodus 8:23.

So we say, to night, to day. To morrow is equivalent to on the morrow

2. The next day subsequent to any day specified.

But if the sacrifice of his offering shall be a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten. Leviticus 7:16.

Good morrow a term of salutation; good morning.

MORSE, noun mors. In zoology, the sea-horse, or walrus, an animal of the genus Trichechus, which sometimes grows to the length of 18 feet. This animal has a round head, small mouth and eyes, thick lips, a short neck, and a body thick in the middle and tapering towards the tail. His skin is wrinkled, with short hairs thinly dispersed. His legs are short and loosely articulated, and he has five toes on each foot connected by webs. Teeth of this animal have been found which weighed thirty pounds. These animals are gregarious, but shy and very fierce when attacked. They inhabit the shores of Spitzbergen, Hudson's bay and other places in high northern latitudes.

MOR'SEL, noun [from Latin morsus, a bite, form mordeo.]

1. A bite; a mouthful; a small piece of food.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion.

2. A piece; a meal; something to be eaten.

On these herbs and fruits and flowers

Feed first, on each beast next and fish and fowl,

No homely morsels.

3. A small quantity of something not eatable. [Improper.]

MOR'SURE, noun The act of biting.

MORT, noun A tune sounded at the death of game.

1. A salmon in his third year.

MOR'TAL, adjective [Latin mortalis, from mors, death, or morior, to die, that is, to fall.]

1. Subject to death; destined to die. Man is mortal

2. Deadly; destructive to life; causing death, or that must cause death; as a mortal wound; mortal poison.

The fruit

Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

Brought death into the world, and all our woe--

3. Bringing death; terminating life.

Safe in the hand of one disposing power,

Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

4. Deadly in malice or purpose; as a mortal foe. In colloquial language, a mortal foe is an inveterate foe.

5. Exposing to certain death; incurring the penalty of death; condemned to be punished with death; not venial; as a mortal sin.

6. Human; belonging to man who is mortal; as mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.

The voice of God

To mortal ear is dreadful.

7. Extreme; violent. [Not elegant.]

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright--

MOR'TAL, noun Man; a being subject to death; a human being.

Warn poor mortals left behind.

It is often used in ludicrous and colloquial language.

I can behold no mortal now.

MORTAL'ITY, noun [Latin mortalitas.] Subjection to death or the necessity of dying.

When I saw her die,

I then did think on your mortality

1. Death.

Gladly would I meet

Mortality, my sentence.

2. Frequency of death; actual death of great numbers of men or beasts; as a time of great mortality

3. Human nature.

Take these tears, mortality's relief.

4. Power of destruction.

Mortality and mercy in Vienna,

Live in thy tongue and heart.

MOR'TALIZE, verb transitive To make mortal.

MOR'TALLY, adverb Irrecoverably; in a manner that must cause death; as mortally wounded.

1. Extremely.

Adrian mortally envied poets, painters and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.

MOR'TAR, noun [Latin mortarium.]

1. A vessel of wood or metal in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or bruised with a pestle.

2. A short piece of ordnance, thick and wide, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc.; so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.

MOR'TAR, noun A mixture of lime and sand with water, used as a cement for uniting stones and bricks in walls. If the lime is slaked and the materials mixed with lime water, the cement will be much stronger.

Mort d'ancestor. In 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.

MOR'TER, noun A lamp or light.

MORTGAGE, noun mor'gage.

1. Literally, a dead pledge; the grant of an estate in fee as security for the payment of money, and on the condition that if the money shall be paid according to the contract, the grant shall be void, and the mortgagee shall re-convey the estate to the mortgager. Formerly the condition was, that if the mortgager should repay the money at the day specified, he might then re-enter on the estate granted in pledge; but the modern practice is for the mortgagee, on receiving payment, to reconvey the land to the mortgager. Before the time specified for payment, that is, between the time of contract and the time limited for payment, the estate is conditional, and the mortgagee is called tenant in mortgage; but on failure of payment at the time limited, the estate becomes absolute in the mortgagee. But in this case, courts of equity interpose, and if the estate is of more value than the debt, they will on application grant a reasonable time for the mortgager to redeem the estate. This is called the equity of redemption.

2. The state of being pledged; as lands given in mortgage

3. A pledge of goods or chattels by a debtor to a creditor, as security for the debt.

MORTGAGE, verb transitive mor'gage. To grant an estate in fee as security for money lent or contracted to be paid at a certain time, on condition that if the debt shall be discharged according to the contract, the grant shall be void, otherwise to remain in full force. It is customary to give a mortgage for securing the repayment of money lent, or the payment of the purchase money of an estate, or for any other debt.

1. To pledge; to make liable to the payment of any debt or expenditure.

Already a portion of the entire capital of the nation is mortgaged for the support of drunkards.

MORTGAGED, participle passive mor'gaged. Conveyed in fee as security for the payment of money.

MORTGAGEE, noun morgagee'. The person to whom an estate is mortgaged.

MORTGAGER, noun mor'gager. [from mortgage. Mortgagor is an orthography that should have no countenance.]

The person who grants an estate as security for a debt, as above specified.

MORTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin mortifer; mors, death, and fero, to bring.]

Bringing or producing death; deadly; fatal; destructive.

MORTIFICA'TION, noun [See Mortify.]

1. In medicine and surgery, the death and consequent putrefaction of one part of any animal body, while the rest is alive; or the loss of heat and action in some part of a living animal, followed by a dissolution of organic texture; gangrene; sphacelus. mortification is the local or partial death of a living animal body, and if not arrested, soon extinguishes life in the whole body. We usually apply mortification to the local extinction of life and loss or organic texture in a living body. The dissolution of the whole body after death, is called putrefaction.

2. In Scripture, the act of subduing the passions and appetites by penance, abstinence or painful severities inflicted on the body. The mortification of the body by fasting has been the practice of almost all nations, and the mortification of the appetites and passions by self-denial is always a christian duty.

3. Humiliation or slight vexation; the state of being humbled or depressed by disappointment, vexation, crosses, or any thing that wounds or abases pride.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

We had the mortification to lose sight of Munich, Augsburg and Ratisbon.

4. Destruction of active qualities; applied to metals. [See Mortify; but I believe not used.]

MOR'TIFIED, participle passive Affected by sphacelus or gangrene.

1. Humbled; subdued; abased.

MOR'TIFIEDNESS, noun Humiliation; subjection of the passions.

MOR'TIFIER, noun He or that which mortifies.

MOR'TIFY, verb transitive [Latin mors, death, and facio, to make.]

1. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of some part of a living animal; to change to sphacelus or gangrene. Extreme inflammation speedily mortifies flesh.

2. To subdue or bring into subjection, as the bodily appetites by abstinence or rigorous severities.

We mortify ourselves with fish.

With fasting mortified, worn out with tears.

3. To subdue; to abase; to humble; to reduce; to restrain; as inordinate passions.

Mortify thy learned lust.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth. Colossians 3:5.

4. To humble; to depress; to affect with slight vexation.

How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought.

He is controlled by a nod, mortified by a frown, and transported with a smile.

5. To destroy active powers or essential qualities.

He mortified pearls in vinegar--

Quicksilver--mortified with turpentine.

[I believe this application is not now in use.]

MOR'TIFY, verb intransitive To lose vital heat and action and suffer the dissolution of organic texture, as flesh; to corrupt or gangrene.

1. To be subdued.

2. To practice severities and penance from religious motives.

This makes him give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast and mortify

MOR'TIFYING, participle present tense Changing from soundness to gangrene or sphacelus.

1. Subduing; humbling; restraining.

2. adjective Humiliating; tending to humble or abase.

He met with a mortifying repulse.

MORTISE, noun mor'tis. A cut or hollow place made in timber by the augur and chisel, to receive the tenon of another piece of timber.

MOR'TISE, verb transitive To cut or make a mortise in.

1. To join timbers by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

MOR'TISED, participle passive Having a mortise; joined by a mortise and tenon.

MOR'TISING, participle present tense Making a mortise; uniting by a mortise and tenon.

MORT'LING, noun Wool plucked from a dead sheep.

MORT'MAIN, noun In law, possession of lands or tenements in dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate. Alienation in mortmain is an alienation of lands or tenements to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, particularly to religious houses, by which the estate becomes perpetually inherent in the corporation and unalienable.

MORT'PAY, noun Dead pay; payment not made. [Not used.]

MOR'TRESS, noun [from mortar.] A dish of meat of various kinds beaten together. [Not used.]

MOR'TUARY, noun

1. A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

2. A burial place.

MOR'TUARY, adjective Belonging to the burial of the dead.

MOSA'IC, adjective s as z. [Latin musivum.]

1. mosaic work is an assemblage of little pieces of glass, marble, precious stones, etc. of various colors, cut square and cemented on a ground of stucco, in such a manner as to imitate the colors and gradations of painting.

2. [from Moses.] Pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites; as the mosaic law, rites or institutions.

MOS'CHATEL, noun [Latin muscus, musk.] A plant of the genus Adoxa, hollow root or inglorious. There is one species only, whose leaves and flowers smell like musk; and hence it is sometimes called musk-crowfoot.

MOSK, noun A Mohammedan temple or place of religious worship. Mosks are square building, generally constructed of stone. Before the chief gate is a square court paved with white marble, and surrounded with a low gallery whose roof is supported by pillars of marble. In this gallery the worshipers wash themselves before they enter the mosk

MOSS, noun [Latin muscus.] The mosses are one of the seven families or classes into which all vegetables are divided by Linne in the Philosophia Botanica. In Ray's method, the mosses form the third class, and in Tournefort's, they constitute a single genus. In the sexual system, they are the second order of the class cryptogamia, which contains all the plants in which the parts of the flower and fruit are wanting or not conspicuous.

The mosses, musci, form a natural order of small plants, with leafy stems and narrow simple leaves. Their flowers are generally monecian or diecian, and their seeds are contained in a capsule covered with a calyptra or hood.

The term moss is also applied to many other small plants, particularly lichens, species of which are called tree-moss, rock-moss, coral-moss, etc. The fir-moss and club-moss are of the genus Lycopodium.

1. A bog; a place where peat is found.

MOSS, verb transitive To cover with moss by natural growth.

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

MOSS'-CLAD, adjective Clad or covered with moss

MOSS'ED, participle passive Overgrown with moss.

MOSS'INESS, noun [from mossy.] The state of being overgrown with moss.

MOSS'-TROOPER, noun [moss and trooper.] A robber; a bandit.

MOSS'Y, adjective Overgrown with moss; abounding with moss.

Old trees are more mossy than young.

1. Shaded or covered with moss, or bordered with moss; as mossy brooks; mossy fountains.

MOST, adjective superlative of more.

1. Consisting of the greatest number. That scheme of life is to be preferred, which presents a prospect of the most advantages with the fewest inconveniences.

MOST men will proclaim every one his own goodness. Proverbs 20:6.

2. consisting of the greatest quantity; greatest; as the most part of the land or the mountain.

MOST, adverb In the greatest or highest degree. Pursue that course of life which will most tend to produce private happiness and public usefulness. Contemplations on the works of God expand the mind and tend to produce most sublime views of his power and wisdom.

As most is used to express the superlative degree, it is used before any adjective; as most vile, most wicked, most illustrious.

MOST, noun [used as a substitute for a noun, when the noun is omitted or understood.]

1. The greatest number or part.

Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matthew 11:20.

[This use seems to have resulted form the omission of part, or some similar word, and most in this case signifies greatest, that is, the greatest part.]

2. The most the greatest value, amount or advantage, or the utmost in extent, degree or effect.

A covetous man makes the most of what he has, and can get.

At the most the greatest degree or quantity; the utmost extent. Stock brings six per cent. interest at the most often less.

MOSTHWAT, adverb For the most part.

MOS'TIC, noun A painter's staff or stick on which he rests his hand in painting.

MOSTLY, adverb For the greatest part. The exports of the U. States consist mostly of cotton, rice, tobacco, flour and lumber.

MOT. [See Motto.]

MO'TACIL, noun [Latin motacilla.] A bird of the genus Motacilla or wagtail.

MOTE, in folkmote, etc. signifies a meeting.

MOTE, noun A small particle; any thing proverbially small; a spot.

Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye? Matthew 7:3.

The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there is no wind.

MOTE, for mought, might or must, obsolete.

MO'TET, noun A musical composition; an air or hymn.

MOTH, noun

1. An animal of the genus Phalaena, which breeds in yard and garments, and often does injury by eating the substance and destroying the texture. Matthew 6:19.

The name is also applied to the whole genus.

2. Figuratively, that which gradually and silently eats, consumes or wastes any thing. Idle persons are a moth to the community.

MOTH'EAT, verb transitive [moth and eat.] To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.

MOTH'EATEN, adjective Eaten by moths. Job 13:1.

MOTH'EN, adjective Full of moths. [Not in use.]

MOTHER, noun [Latin mater, mother; matrix, the womb; materia, matter, stuff, materials of which any thing is made. We observe that in some other languages, as well as in English, the same word signifies a female parent, and the thick slime formed in vinegar; and in all the languages of Europe here cited, the orthography is nearly the same as that of mud and matter. The question then occurs whether the name of a female parent originated in a word expressing matter, mold; either the soil of the earth, as the producer, or the like substance, when shaped and fitted as a mold for castings; or whether the name is connected with the opinion that the earth is the mother of all productions; whence the word mother-earth. We are informed by a fragment of Sanchoniathon, that the ancient Phenicians considered mud to be the substance from which all things were formed. See Mud. The word matter is evidently from the Ar. madda, to secrete, eject or discharge a purulent substance; and I think cannot have any direct connection with mud. But in the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, the same word madre signified mother and a mold for castings; and the northern languages, particularly the German and Danish, seem to establish the fact that the proper sense of mother is matrix. Hence mother of pearl, the matrix of pearl. If this word had its origin in the name of the earth used for the forms of castings, it would not be a singular fact; for our word mold, in this sense, I suppose to be so named from mold, fine earth. The question remains sub judice.]

1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child; correlative to son or daughter.

2. That which has produced any thing.

Alas, poor country! it cannot

Be called our mother but our grave.

So our native land is called mother country, and a plant from which a slip or cion is taken, is called the mother plant. In this use, mother may be considered as an adjective.

3. That which has preceded in time; the oldest or chief of any thing; as a mother-church.

4. Hysterical passion. [Not used.]

5. A familiar term of address or appellation of an old woman or matron.

6. An appellation given to a woman who exercises care and tenderness towards another, or gives parental advice; as when one says, ' a woman has been a mother to me.'

7. A thick slimy substance concreted in liquors, particularly in vinegar, very different from scum or common lees.

MOTHER of pearl, noun The matrix of pearl; the shell in which pearls are generated; a species of Mytilus or Mussel.

MOTHER of thyme, noun A plant of the genus Thymus.

MOTHER, adjective Native; natural; received by birth; as mother-wit.

1. Native; vernacular; received from parents or ancestors; as mother-tongue.

MOTHER, verb intransitive To concrete, as the thick matter of liquors.

MOTHER, verb transitive To adopt as a son or daughter.

MOTHERHOOD, noun The state of being a mother.

MOTHERLESS, adjective Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as motherless children.

MOTHERLY, adjective Pertaining to a mother; as motherly power or authority.

1. Becoming a mother; tender; parental; as motherly love or care.

MOTHERLY, adverb In the manner of a mother.

MOTHERY, adjective Concreted; resembling or partaking of the nature of mother; as the mothery substance in liquors.

MOTH'MULLEN, noun A plant.

MOTH'WORT, noun A plant.

MOTH'Y, adjective [from moth.] Full of moths; as an old mothy saddle.

MO'TION, noun [Latin motio. See Move.] The act or process of changing place; change of local position; the passing of a body from one place to another; change of distance between bodies; opposed to rest.

Animal motion is that which is performed by animals in consequence of volition or an act of the will; but how the will operates on the body in producing motion we cannot explain.

Mechanical motion is effected by the force or power of one body acting on another.

Perpetual motion is that which is effected or supplied by itself, without the impulse or intervention of any external cause. Hitherto it has been found impossible to invent a machine that has this principle.

1. Animal life and action.

Devoid of sense and motion

2. Manner of moving the body; port; gait; air.

Each member move and every motion guide.

3. Change of posture; action.

Watching the motion of her patron's eye.

4. Military march or movement.

5. Agitation; as the motions of the sea.

6. Internal action; excitement; as the motions of the breast.

7. Direction; tendency.

In our proper motion we ascend.

8. The effect of impulse; action proceeding from any cause, external or internal. In the growth of plants and animals, there must be a motion of the component parts, though invisible. Attraction or chimical affinity produces sensible motion of the parts of bodies. Motions of the mind ascribed to the invisible agency of the Supreme Being, are called good motions.

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.

9. Proposal made; proposition offered; particularly, a proposition made in a deliberative assembly. A motion is made for a committee; a motion for introducing a bill; a motion to adjourn.

10. A puppet-show or puppet. [Not used.]

MO'TION, verb transitive To propose. [Little used. See Move.]

MO'TIONER, noun A mover. [Not used.]

MO'TIONLESS, adjective Wanting motion; being at rest.

I grow a statue, fixed and motionless

MO'TIVE, adjective [See the Noun.] Causing motion; having power to move or tending to move; as a motive argument; motive power.

MO'TIVE, noun

1. That which incites to action; that which determines the choice, or moves the will. Thus we speak of good motives, and bad motives; strong and weak motives. The motive to continue at rest is ease or satisfaction; the motive to change is uneasiness, or the prospect of good.

2. That which may or ought to incite to action; reason; cause.

3. A mover. [Not in use.]

MOTIV'ITY, noun The power of producing motion.

MOT'LEY, adjective [Eng.mote.]

1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; as a motley coat.

2. Composed of different or various parts, characters or kinds; diversified; as a motley style.

And doubts of motley hue.

[This word primarily means spotted; but it may signify also striped.]

MO'TOR, noun [Latin from moveo, to move.]

A mover. The metals are called motors of electricity.

MO'TORY, adjective Giving motion; as motory muscles.

MOT'TO, noun Primarily, a word; but more commonly, a sentence or phrase prefixed to an essay or discourse, containing the subject of it, or added to a device.

In heraldry, the motto is carried in a scroll, alluding to the bearing or to the name of the bearer, or expressing some important idea.

MOULD, an incorrect orthography. [See Mold, and its derivatives.]

MOULT. [See Molt.]

MOUNCH

MAUNCH, verb transitive To chew.

MOUND, noun [Latin mons. See Mount.] Something raised as a defense or fortification, usually a bank of earth or stone; a bulwark; a rampart or fence.

God has thrown

That mountain as his garden mound high raised.

To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.

MOUND, verb transitive To fortify with a mound

MOUND'ED, participle passive Surrounded or defended by mounds.

The lakes high mounded

MOUND'ING, participle present tense Defending by a mound.

MOUNT, noun [Latin mons, literally a heap or an elevation.]

1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land. mount is used for an eminence or elevation of earth, indefinite in highth or size, and may be a hillock, hill or mountain. We apply it to mount Blanc, in Switzerland, to mount Tom and mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and it is applied in Scripture to the small hillocks on which sacrifice was offered as well as to mount Sinai. Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount or heap of stones raised for a witness between him and Laban. Genesis 31:21.

2. A mound; a bulwark for offense or defense.

Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jeremiah 6:6.

3. Formerly, a bank or fund of money.

MOUNT, verb intransitive

1. To rise on high; to ascend; with or without up.

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? Job 39:27.

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.

2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to be built to a great altitude.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jeremiah 51:53.

3. To get on horseback.

4. To leap upon any animal.

5. To amount; to rise in value.

Bring then these blessings to a strict account,

Make fair deductions, see to what they mount

MOUNT, verb transitive To raise aloft; to lift on high.

What power is it which mounts my love so high?

1. To ascend; to climb; to get upon an elevated place; as, to mount a throne.

2. To place one's self on horseback; as, to mount a horse.

3. To furnish with horses; as, to mount a troop. The dragoons were well mounted.

4. To put on or cover with something; to embellish with ornaments; as, to mount a sword.

5. To carry; to be furnished with; as, a ship of the line mounts seventy four guns; a fort mounts a hundred cannon.

6. To raise and place on a carriage; as, to mount a cannon.

To mount guard, to take the station and do the duty of a sentinel.

MOUNT'AIN, noun [Latin adjective, montanus.] A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, but of no definite altitude. We apply mountain to the largest eminences on the globe; but sometimes the word is used for a large hill. In general, mountain denotes an elevation higher and larger than a hill; as the Altaic mountains in Asia, the Alps in Switzerland, the Andes in South America, the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, the Catskill in New York, the White mountains in New Hampshire, and the Green mountains in Vermont. The word is applied to a single elevation, or to an extended range.

MOUNT'AIN, adjective Pertaining to a mountain; found on mountains; growing or dwelling on a mountain; as mountain air; mountain pines; mountain goats.

MOUNTAINE'ER

MOUNT'AINER, adjective An inhabitant of a mountain.

1. A rustic; a freebooter; a savage.

MOUNT'AINER, a. An inhabitant of a mountain.

MOUNT'AINET, noun A small mountain; a hillock. [Not used.]

MOUNT'AINOUS, adjective Full of mountains; as the mountainous country of the Swiss.

1. Large as a mountain; huge; as a mountainous heap.

2. Inhabiting mountains. [Not used.]

MOUNT'AINOUSNESS, noun The state of being full of mountains.

MOUNT'ANT, adjective Rising on high.

MOUNT'EBANK, noun

1. One who mounts a bench or state in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies, and thus deludes the ignorant multitude. Persons of this character may be indicted and punished.

2. Any boastful and false pretender.

Nothing so impossible in nature, but mountebanks will undertake.

MOUNT'EBANK, verb transitive To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

MOUNT'EBANKERY, noun Quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

MOUNT'ED, participle passive Raised; seated on horseback; placed on a carriage; covered or embellished; furnished with guns.

MOUNT'ENAUNCE, noun Amount in space. [Not used.]

MOUNT'ER, noun One that mounts or ascends.

MOUNT'ING, participle present tense Rising; soaring; placing on horseback; ascending an eminence; embellishing.

MOUNT'INGLY, adverb By rising or ascending.

MOUNT'Y, noun The rise of a hawk.

MOURN, verb intransitive [Latin maereo.]

1. To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or by sobs, sighs or inward silent grief.

Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep. Genesis 23:2.

Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4.

2. To wear the customary habit of sorrow.

We mourn in black.

Grieve for an hour perhaps, then mourn a year.

MOURN, verb transitive To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. 'He mourn'd his rival's ill success, ' that is, he mourned for his rival's ill success.

1. To utter in a sorrowful manner.

The love lorn nightingale

Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

MOURNE, noun morn. The round end of a staff; the part of a lance to which the steel is fixed, or the ferrel. [Not used.]

MOURNER, noun One that mourns or is grieved at any loss or misfortune.

1. One that follows a funeral in the habit of mourning.

2. Something used at funerals.

The mourner eugh and builder oak were there.

MOURNFUL, adjective Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief, as a mournful bell; mournful music.

No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds.

1. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death.

2. Sorrowful; feeling grief.

The mournful fair--

Shall visit her distinguished urn.

MOURNFULLY, adverb In a manner expressive of sorrow; with sorrow. Malachi 3:14.

MOURNFULNESS, noun Sorrow; grief; state of mourning.

1. Appearance or expression of grief.

MOURNING, participle present tense Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.

MOURNING, noun The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.

1. The dress or customary habit worn by mourners.

And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.

MOURNINGLY, adverb With the appearance of sorrow.

MOUSE, noun plural mice. [Latin mus; The Latin mus forms muris in the genitive, and the root is not obvious.]

1. A small animal of the genus Mus, inhabiting houses. The name is also applied to many other species of the genus, as the field mouse meadow mouse rock mouse etc.

2. Among seamen, a knob formed on a rope by spun yarn or parceling.

MOUSE, verb intransitive . mouz. To catch mice.

MOUSE, verb transitive mouz. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse

To mouse a hook, with seamen, is to fasten a small line across the upper part to prevent unhooking.

MOUSER, noun mouz'er. One that catches mice. The cat is a good mouser

MOUTH, noun

1. The aperture in the head of an animal, between the lips, by which he utters his voice and receives food. In a more general sense, the mouth consists of the lips, the gums, the insides of the cheeks, the palate, the salival glands, the uvula and tonsils.

2. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied; as the mouth of a jar or pitcher.

3. The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake. The Mississippi and the Nile discharge their waters by several mouths.

4. The opening of a piece of ordnance at the end, by which the charge issues.

5. The aperture of a vessel in animal bodies, by which fluids or other matter is received or discharged; as the mouth of the lacteals.

6. The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well or den. Daniel 8:1.

7. The instrument of speaking; as, the story is in every body's mouth

8. A principal speaker; one that utters the common opinion.

Every coffee house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

9. Cry; voice.

The fearful dogs divide,

All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide.

10. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19:16. Isaiah 49:2. Psalms 73:9.

11. Desires; necessities. Psalms 103:5.

12. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument.

Luke 21:15.

13. Boasting; vaunting. Judges 9:38.

14. Testimony. Deuteronomy 17:6.

15. Reproaches; calumnies. Job 5:15.

To make a mouth to distort the mouth;

To make mouths, to make a wry face; hence, to deride or treat with scorn.

1. To pout; to treat disdainfully.

Down in the mouth dejected; mortified.

To have God's law in the mouth to converse much on it and delight in it. Exodus 13:9.

To draw near to God with the mouth to make an external appearance of devotion and worship, while there is no regard to him in the heart. Isaiah 29:13.

A froward mouth contradictions and disobedience. Proverbs 9:1.

A smooth mouth soft and flattering language. Proverbs 5:3.

To stop the mouth to silence or to be silent; to put to shame; to confound. Romans 3:14. lay the hand on the mouth to be struck silent with shame. Micah 7:5.

To set the mouth against the heavens, to speak arrogantly and blasphemously. Psalms 73:9.

MOUTH, verb transitive To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language.

Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more.

1. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth

2. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour.

3. To form by the mouth as a bear her cub. [Not used.]

4. To reproach; to insult.

MOUTH, verb intransitive To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant; as a mouthing actor.

I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country,

And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.

MOUTH'ED, pp. Uttered with a full, swelling, affected voice.

1. Taken into the mouth; chewed.

2. adjective Furnished with a mouth; used chiefly in composition; as well-mouthed; foul-mouthed, contumelious, reproachful or obscene; mealy-mouthed, bashful, reserved in speaking the plain truth; hard-mouthed, as a horse, not obedient to the bit, difficult to be restrained or governed by the bridle.

3. Borne down or overpowered by clamor.

MOUTH'FRIEND, noun One who professes friendship without entertaining it; a pretended friend.

MOUTH'FUL, noun As much as the mouth contains at once.

1. A quantity proverbially small; a small quantity.

MOUTH'HONOR, noun Civility expressed without sincerity.

MOUTH'ING, participle present tense Uttering with an affected swelling voice.

MOUTH'LESS, adjective Destitute of a mouth.

MOUTH'MADE, adjective Expressed without sincerity; hypocritical.

MOUTH'PIECE, noun The piece of a musical wind instrument to which the mouth is applied.

MOVABLE, adjective [from move.] That may be moved; that can or may be lifted, carried, drawn, turned or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion.

1. That may or does change from one time to another; as a movable feast.

A movable letter, in Hebrew grammar, is one that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent.

MOVABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.

MOVABLES, plural Goods, wares, commodities, furniture; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands.

MOVABLY, adverb So that it may be moved.

MOVE, verb transitive moov. [Latin moveo.]

1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The wind moves a ship; the cartman moves goods; the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.

2. To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.

3. To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.

4. To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.

Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.

But when no female arts his mind could move

She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.

5. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.

The use of images in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.

When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--Matthew 9:36.

6. To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.

7. To excite tumult or commotion.

When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them. Ruth 1:19. Matthew 21:10.

8. To influence or incite by secret agency.

God moved them to depart from him. 2 Chronicles 18:31. 2 Peter 1:21.

9. To shake; to agitate.

The kingdoms were moved. Psalms 46:5. Jeremiah 49:21.

10. To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.

11. To propose; to recommend.

They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.

12. To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17:28.

MOVE, verb intransitive To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.

On the green bank I sat and listened long,

Nor till her lay was ended could I move

1. To have action.

In him we live, and move and have our being. Acts 17:28.

2. To have the power of action.

Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you.

Genesis 9:1.

3. To walk.

He moves with manly grace.

4. To march. The army moved and took a position behind a wood.

5. To tremble; to shake.

The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Psalms 18:7.

6. To change residence. Men move with their families from one house, town or state to another.

MOVE, noun The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.

MOVED, participle passive Stirred; excited.

MOVELESS, adjective That cannot be moved; fixed.

The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower.

MOVEMENT, noun Motion; a passing, progression, shaking, turning or flowing; any change of position in a material body; as the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine.

1. The manner of moving.

2. Excitement; agitation; as the movement of the mind.

3. In music, any single strain or part having the same measure or time.

Any change of time is a change of movement

MO'VENT, adjective [Latin movens.] Moving; not quiescent. [Little used.]

MO'VENT, noun That which moves any thing. [Little used.]

MOVER, noun The person or thing that gives motion or impels to action.

1. He or that which moves.

2. A proposer; one that offers a proposition, or recommends any thing for consideration or adoption; as the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

MOVING, participle present tense Causing to move or act; impelling; instigating; persuading; influencing.

1. adjective Exciting the passions or affections; touching; pathetic; affecting; adapted to excite or affect the passions; as a moving address or discourse.

MOVING, noun Motive; impulse.

MOVINGLY, adverb In a manner to excite the passions or affect sensibility; pathetically.

His air, his voice, his looks and honest soul,

Speak all so movingly in his behalf.

MOVINGNESS, noun The power of affecting, as the passions.

MOW, noun A heap, mass or pile of hay deposited in a barn.

[We never give this name to hay piled in the field or open air. The latter is called a stack or rick.]

MOW, verb transitive To lay hay in a heap or mass in a barn, or to lay it in a suitable manner.

MOW, verb transitive preterit tense mower; participle passive mowed or mown. [The Latin has meto, and the Gr. to mow or reap. The last radical letter is not ascertained.]

1. To cut down with a scythe, as grass or other plants. We say, to mow grass.

2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

3. To cut down with speed; to cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity. We say, a discharge of grape shot mows down whole ranks of men. Hence Saturn or Time is represented with a scythe, an emblem of the general and indiscriminate destruction of the human race by death.

MOW, verb intransitive To cut grass; to practice mowing; to use the scythe. Does the man mow well?

1. To perform the business of mowing; to cut and make grass into hay; to gather the crop of grass, or other crop.

[In America, mow is not applied to the cutting of wheat or rye. When these are cut with a scythe, they are said to be cradled. Oats and barley are sometimes mowed.]

MOW, noun [from mouth.] A wry face.

MOW, verb intransitive To make mouths.

MOW'BURN, verb intransitive To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

MOWE, verb intransitive To be able; must; may.

MOWED

MOWER, noun One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.

MOWER, n. One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.

MOW'ING, participle present tense Putting into a mow.

MOWING, participle present tense Cutting down with scythe.

MOWING, noun The act of cutting with a scythe.

1. Land from which grass is cut.

MOWN, participle passive Cut with a scythe.

1. Cleared of grass with a scythe, as land.

MOX'A, noun The down of the mugwort of China; a soft lanuginous substance prepared in Japan from the young leaves of a species of Artemisia. In the eastern countries, it is used for the gout, etc. by burning it on the skin. This produces a dark colored spot, the exulceration of which is promoted by applying a little garlic.

MOYLE, noun A mule. [See Mule.]