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Monodon

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.

Monody

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

A song or poem sung by one person only.

Monogam

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

Monogamian

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

Monogamist

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

Monogamous

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

Monogamy

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

Monogram

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.

Monogrammal

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

Monograph

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.

Monographic

MONOGRAPH'IC

MONOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Drawn in lines without colors.

1. Pertaining to a monograph.

Monographical

MONOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Drawn in lines without colors. 1. Pertaining to a monograph.

Monography

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

Monogyn

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

Monogynian

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

Monologue

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.

Monomachy

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

Monome

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

Monomial

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

Monopathy

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

Monopetalous

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.

Monophthong

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

Monophthongal

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

Monophyllous

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

Monophysite

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.

Monopolist

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.

Monopolize

MONOP'OLIZE, v.t. [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.

Monopolizer

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.

Monopoly

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.

Monoptote

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

Monospermous

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

Monostich

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

Monostrophic

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

Monosyllabic

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.

Monosyllable

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

A word of one syllable.

Monosyllabled

MONOSYL'LABLED, adjective Formed into one syllable.

Monotheism

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

Monothelite

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

Monotone

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.

Monotonic

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

Monotonous

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

Monotonously

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

Monotony

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

MONSIEUR, noun Sir; Mr.

Monsoon

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.

Monster

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.]

Monster-Taming

MON'STER-TAMING, adjective Taming monsters.

Monstrosity

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.

Monstrous

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.]

Monstrously

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.

Monstrousness

MON'STROUSNESS, noun The state of being monstrous.

1. Enormity; irregular nature or behavior.

Montanic

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

Montanism

MON'TANISM, noun The tenets of Montanus.

Montanist

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.

Montanistic

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

Montanize

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

Montant

MONT'ANT, noun A term in fencing.

Montero

MONTE'RO, noun A horseman's cap.

Monteth

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

Month

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

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.]

Months-Mind

MONTH'S-MIND, noun Earnest desire; strong inclination.

Montmartrite

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

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

Monument

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.

Monumental

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

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.]

Moodily

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

Moodiness

MOOD'INESS, noun Anger; peevishness.

Moody

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

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-Trefoil

MOON-TRE'FOIL, noun A plant of the genus Medicago.

MOON'-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Lunaria; satin-flower; honesty.

Mooned

MOON'ED, adjective Taken for the moon.

Moonet

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.

Moonish

MOON'ISH, adjective Like the moon; variable.

Moonless

MOON'LESS, adjective Not favored with moonlight.

Moonlight

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

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

Moonling

MOON'LING, noun A simpleton.

Moonloved

MOON'LOVED, adjective Loved when the moon shines.

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

Moonshine

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

Moonshiny

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

I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

Moonstone

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.

Moonstruck

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

Moony

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

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

Moorcock

MOOR'COCK

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

Moored

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

Moorfowl

MOOR'FOWL

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

Moorhen

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

Mooring

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.

Moorish

MOOR'ISH, adjective Marshy; fenny; watery.

Along the moorish fens.

1. Pertaining to the Moors in Africa.

Moorland

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.

Moorstone

MOOR'STONE, noun A species of granite.

Moory

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

As when thick mists arise from moory vales.

Moose

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

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-Case

MOOT'-CASE

MOOT'-POINT, noun A point, case or question to be mooted or debated; a disputable case; an unsettled question.

In this moot-case your judgment to refuse.

Moot-Hall

MOOT-HALL

MOOT'-HOUSE, noun A town hall; hall of judgment.

Mooted

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

Mooter

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

Mooting

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

MOOT'ING, noun The exercise of disputing.

Mop

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

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.

Mope-Eyed

MO'PE-EYED, adjective Short-sighted; purblind.

Moped

MO'PED, participle passive Made stupid.

A young, low spirited, moped creature.

Moping

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

Mopish

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

Mopishness

MO'PISHNESS, noun Dejection; dullness; stupidity.

Moppet

MOP'PET

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

Mopsey

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

Mopus

MO'PUS, noun A mope; a drone.

Moral

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.]

Moraler

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

Moralist

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.

Morality

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.

Moralization

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

1. Explanation in a moral sense.

Moralize

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.

Moralized

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

1. Rendered moral or less corrupt.

Moralizer

MOR'ALIZER, noun One who moralizes.

Moralizing

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.

Morally

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.

Morals

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?

Morancy

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

Commorancy consists in usually lying there.

Morass

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

Morassy

MORASS'Y, adjective Marshy; fenny.

Moravian

MORA'VIAN, adjective Pertaining to Moravia.

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

Morbid

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.

Morbidness

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

Morbific

MORBIF'IC

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

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

Morbifical

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

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

Morbillous

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.

Morbose

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

Morbosity

MORBOS'ITY, noun A diseased state.

Mordacious

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

Mordaciously

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

Mordacity

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

The quality of biting.

Mordant

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

Mordicancy

MOR'DICANCY, noun A biting quality; corrosiveness.

Mordicant

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

Mordication

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

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

Moreen

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

Morel

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

1. A kind of cherry.

Moreland

MORELAND. [See Moorland.]

Moreness

MO'RENESS, noun Greatness.

Moreover

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

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

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

Morglay

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

Morgray

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

MORICE. [See Morisco.]

Morigeration

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

Morigerous

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

Moril

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

Morilliform

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

Morillon

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

Morinel

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

Moringa

MORIN'GA, noun A plant.

Morion

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

Morisco

MORIS'CO

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

Morisk

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

Morkin

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

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

Morland

MOR'LAND

MO'RELAND, noun Moorland, which see.

Morling

MOR'LING noun Wool plucked from a dead sheep.

Mormo

MOR'MO, noun A bugbear; false terror.

Morn

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

And blooming peach shall ever bless thy morn

Morning

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.

Morning-Gown

MORNING-GOWN, noun A gown worn in the morning before one is formally dressed.

Morning-Star

MORNING-STAR, noun The planet Venus, when it precedes the sun in rising, and shines in the morning.

Morocco

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

Morose

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.

Morosely

MORO'SELY, adverb Sourly; with sullen austerity.

Moroseness

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

Morosity

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

Moroxylic

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

Morphew

MOR'PHEW, noun A scurf on the face.

MOR'PHEW, verb transitive To cover with scurf.

Morphia

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

Morrice

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.

Morris

MOR'RIS

Morris-Dance

MOR'RIS-DANCE, n. A moorish dance; a dance in imitation of the Moors, as sarabands, chacons, &c. usually performed with castanets, tambours, &c. 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.

Morris-Dancer

MOR'RIS-DANCER, noun One who dances a morris-dance.

Morris-Pike

MOR'RIS-PIKE, noun A moorish pike.

Morrow

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

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.

Morsel

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.]

Morsure

MOR'SURE, noun The act of biting.

Mort

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

1. A salmon in his third year.

Mortal

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.

Mortality

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.

Mortalize

MOR'TALIZE, verb transitive To make mortal.

Mortally

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.

Mortar

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.

Morter

MOR'TER, noun A lamp or light.