Moat – Monodist

Moat

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

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.

Mobbish

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

Mobcap

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

Mobile

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.

Mobility

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.

Moble

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

Moccason

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.

Mocha-Stone

MO'CHA-STONE, noun Dendritic agate; a mineral in the interior of which appear brown, reddish brown, blackish or green delineations of shrubs destitute of leaves. These in some cases may have been produced by the filtration of the oxyds of iron and manganese; but in other cases they appear to be vegetable fibers, sometimes retaining their natural form and color, and sometimes coated by oxyd of iron.

Mock

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-Lead

MOCK'-LEAD

MOCK'ABLE, adjective Exposed to derision. [Little used.]

Mockage

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

Mocked

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

Mocker

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

Mockery

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.

Mockeson

MOCK'ESON, noun The name of a serpent.

Mocking

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

MOCK'ING, noun Derision; insult.

Mocking-Bird

MOCK'ING-BIRD, noun The mocking thrush of America; a bird of the genus Turdus.

Mocking-Stock

MOCK'ING-STOCK, noun A butt of sport.

Mockingly

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

Mockle

MOCKLE. [See Mickle.]

Mockore

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.

Modal

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.

Modality

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

Mode

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

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.

Modeled

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

Modeler

MOD'ELER, noun A planner; a contriver.

Modeling

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

Moderate

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.

Moderated

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

Moderately

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

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

Each nymph but moderately fair.

Moderation

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.

Moderator

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.

Moderatorship

MODERA'TORSHIP, noun The office of a moderator.

Moderns

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

Modest

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.

Modestly

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.

Modesty

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.

Modesty-Piece

MOD'ESTY-PIECE, noun A narrow lace worn by females over the bosom.

Modicum

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

Modifiable

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

Modification

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.

Modifier

MOD'IFIER, noun He or that which modifies.

Modify

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.

Modifying

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

Modillion

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.

Modish

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

Modishly

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

Modishness

MO'DISHNESS, noun The state of being fashionable.

1. Affectation of the fashion.

Modulate

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.

Modulated

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

Modulating

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

Modulation

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.

Modulator

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

Module

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.]

Modus

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.

Modwall

MOD'WALL, noun A bird.

Moe

MOE, adjective More. [Not used.]

Mogul

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

Mohair

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.

Mohair-Shell

MO'HAIR-SHELL, noun In conchology, a peculiar species of Voluta, of a closely and finely reticulated texture, resembling on the surface mohair, or a close web of the silkworm.

MOHAM'MEDAN, adjective Pertaining to Mohammed or Mahomet.

MOHAM'MEDAN, noun A follower of Mohammed, the founder of the religion of Arabia and Persia.

Mohammedan

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 ]

Mohammedanism

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

Mohammedanize

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

Mohawk

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.

Mohock

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.

Moidore

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

Moiety

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

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

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

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

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

Moistener

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

Moistening

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

Moistful

MOIST'FUL, adjective Full of moisture.

Moistness

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

Moisture

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.

Moisty

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

Mokes

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

Moky

MO'KY, adjective Muggy; dark; murky.

Molar

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

Molasses

MOLASSES, an incorrect orthography of melasses.

Mold

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.

Mold-Warp

MOLD-WARP, noun A mole; a small animal of the genus Talpa, that moves under ground and turns up the mold or surface of the earth.

Moldable

MOLDABLE, adjective That may be molded or formed.

Molded

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

1. Covered with mold.

Molder

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

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

Moldiness

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

Molding

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

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

Mole

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.]

Mole-Bat

MO'LE-BAT, noun A fish.

Mole-Cast

MO'LE-C'AST, noun A little elevation of earth made by a mole.

Mole-Catcher

MO'LE-CATCHER, noun One whose employment is to catch moles.

Mole-Cricket

MO'LE-CRICKET, noun An insect of the genus Gryllus.

Mole-Eyed

MO'LE-EYED, adjective Having very small eyes; blind.

Mole-Hill

MO'LE-HILL, noun A little hillock or elevation of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence proverbially, a very small hill, or other small thing, compared with a larger.

--Having leaped over such mountains, lie down before a mole-hill

Mole-Track

MO'LE-TRACK, noun The course of a mole under ground.

Mole-Warp

MO'LE-WARP, noun A mole. [See Mole and mold-warp.]

Molecule

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

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

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy.

They have molested the church with needless opposition.

Molestation

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

Molested

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

Molester

MOLEST'ER, noun One that disturbs.

Molestful

MOLEST'FUL, adjective Troublesome.

Molesting

MOLEST'ING, participle present tense Disturbing; troubling.

Molien

MO'LIEN, noun A flowering tree of China.

Moliminous

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

Molinist

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

Mollient

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

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

Mollifiable

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

Mollification

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

1. Mitigation; an appeasing.

Mollified

MOL'LIFIED, participle passive Softened; appeased.

Mollifier

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

1. He that softens, mitigates or pacifies.

Mollify

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.

Mollusca

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.

Molluscan

MOLLUS'CAN

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

Molluscous

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

Molossus

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

Molt

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

MOLTEN, participle passive of melt. Melted.

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

Molting

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.

Moly

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

Molybden

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.

Molybdena

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.

Molybdenous

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

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

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

Moment

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.

Momental

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

Momentally

MOMENT'ALLY, adverb For a moment.

Momentaneous

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

Momentany

MOMENTANEOUS, MOMENTANY not used. [See Momentary.]

Momentarily

MO'MENTARILY, adverb Every moment.

Momentary

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.

Momently

MO'MENTLY, adverb For a moment.

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

Momentous

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

Momentum

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.

Mommery

MOM'MERY

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

Momot

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

Monachal

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

Pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

Monachism

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

Monad

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

1. An ultimate atom, or simple unextended point.

2. An indivisible thing.

Monadelph

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

Monadelphian

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

Monadic

MONAD'IC

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

Monadical

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

Monander

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

In botany, a plant having one stamen only.

Monandrian

MONAN'DRIAN, adjective Having one stamen only.

Monarch

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.

Monarchal

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--

Monarchess

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

Monarchic

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

1. Pertaining to monarchy.

Monarchical

MONARCH'ICAL, a. Vested in a single ruler; as monarchical government or power. 1. Pertaining to monarchy.

Monarchist

MON'ARCHIST, noun An advocate of monarchy.

Monarchize

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.

Monarchy

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.

Monastery

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.

Monastic

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.

Monastical

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.

Monastically

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

Monasticism

MONAS'TICISM, noun Monastic life.

Monday

MONDAY, noun The second day of the week.

Monde

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

Monecian

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

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.

Money-Bag

MONEY-BAG, noun A bag or purse for holding money.

Money-Box

MONEY-BOX, noun A box or till to hold money.

Money-Broker

MONEY-BROKER, noun A broker who deals in money.

Money-Changer

MONEY-CHANGER, noun A broker who deals in money or exchanges.

Money-Lender

MONEY-LENDER, noun One who lends money.

Money-Matter

MONEY-MATTER, noun An account consisting of charges of money; an account between debtor and creditor.

Money-Scrivener

MONEY-SCRIVENER, noun A person who raises money for others.

Money-Spinner

MONEY-SPINNER, noun A small spider.

Money-Wort

MONEY-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Lysimachia.

Moneyage

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

Moneyed

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

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

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

Moneyless

MONEYLESS, adjective Destitute of money; pennyless.

Moneys-Worth

MONEY'S-WORTH, noun Something that will bring money.

1. Full value; the worth of a thing in money.

Monger

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

Mongrel

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

MONGREL, noun An animal of a mixed breed.

Moniliform

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

Like a necklace.

Moniment

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

1. An inscription; something to preserve memory.

2. A mark; an image; a superscription.

Monish

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

Monisher

MON'ISHER, noun An admonisher, which see.

Monishment

MON'ISHMENT, noun Admonition.

Monition

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.

Monitive

MON'ITIVE, adjective Admonitory; conveying admonition.

Monitor

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

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.

Monitory

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

Losses, miscarriages and disappointments are monitory and instructive.

MON'ITORY, noun Admonition; warning.

Monitress

MON'ITRESS, noun A female monitor.

Monk

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

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

Monkey

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

MONKHOOD, noun The character of a monk.

Monkish

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.

Monoceros

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

Monochord

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

Monochromatic

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

Monocotyle

MON'OCOTYLE

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

Monocotyledon

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

Monocotyledonous

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

Monocular

MONOC'ULAR

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

Monocule

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

Monoculous

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

Having one eye only.

Monodactylous

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

Monodist

MONODIST, noun One who writes a monody.