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Mortgage

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

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

Mortgagee

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

Mortgager

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.

Mortiferous

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

Bringing or producing death; deadly; fatal; destructive.

Mortification

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.]

Mortified

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

1. Humbled; subdued; abased.

Mortifiedness

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

Mortifier

MOR'TIFIER, noun He or that which mortifies.

Mortify

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

Mortifying

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

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.

Mortised

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

Mortising

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

Mortling

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

Mortmain

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.

Mortpay

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

Mortress

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

Mortuary

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.

Mosaic

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.

Moschatel

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

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

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-Grown

MOSS-GROWN, adjective Overgrown with moss; as moss-grown towers.

Mossed

MOSS'ED, participle passive Overgrown with moss.

Mossiness

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

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

Mossy

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

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

MOSTHWAT, adverb For the most part.

Mostic

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

Mostly

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

Mot

MOT. [See Motto.]

Motacil

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

Mote

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.

Motet

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

Moth

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.

Motheat

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

Motheaten

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

Mothen

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

Mother

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.

Mother-In-Law

MOTHER-IN-LAW, noun The mother of a husband or wife.

Mother-Water

MOTHER-WATER, noun A fluid remaining after the evaporation of salt water, and containing deliquescent salts and impurities.

Mother-Wit

MOTHER-WIT, noun Native wit; common sense.

Mother-Wort

MOTHER-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Leonurus.

Motherhood

MOTHERHOOD, noun The state of being a mother.

Motherless

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

Motherly

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

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

Mothmullen

MOTH'MULLEN, noun A plant.

Mothwort

MOTH'WORT, noun A plant.

Mothy

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

Motion

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.]

Motioner

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

Motionless

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

I grow a statue, fixed and motionless

Motive

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.]

Motivity

MOTIV'ITY, noun The power of producing motion.

Motley

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.]

Motor

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

A mover. The metals are called motors of electricity.

Motory

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

Motto

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

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

Moult

MOULT. [See Molt.]

Mounch

MOUNCH

MAUNCH, verb transitive To chew.

Mound

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

Mounded

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

The lakes high mounded

Mounding

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

Mount

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.

Mountain

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.

Mountain-Blue

MOUNT'AIN-BLUE, noun Malachite; carbonate of copper.

Mountain-Green

MOUNT'AIN-GREEN, noun A carbonate of copper.

Mountain-Parsley

MOUNT'AIN-PARSLEY, noun A plant of the genus Athamanta.

Mountain-Rose

MOUNT'AIN-ROSE, noun A plant.

Mountain-Soap

MOUNT'AIN-SOAP, noun A mineral of a pale brownish black color.

Mountaineer

MOUNTAINE'ER

MOUNT'AINER, adjective An inhabitant of a mountain.

1. A rustic; a freebooter; a savage.

Mountainer

MOUNT'AINER, a. An inhabitant of a mountain. 1. A rustic; a freebooter; a savage.

Mountainet

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

Mountainous

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.]

Mountainousness

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

Mountant

MOUNT'ANT, adjective Rising on high.

Mountebank

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.

Mountebankery

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

Mounted

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

Mountenaunce

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

Mounter

MOUNT'ER, noun One that mounts or ascends.

Mounting

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

Mountingly

MOUNT'INGLY, adverb By rising or ascending.

Mounty

MOUNT'Y, noun The rise of a hawk.

Mourn

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

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

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

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

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

Mournfulness

MOURNFULNESS, noun Sorrow; grief; state of mourning.

1. Appearance or expression of grief.

Mourning

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.

Mourning-Dove

MOURNING-DOVE, noun A species of dove found in the U. States, the Columba Caroliniensis.

Mourningly

MOURNINGLY, adverb With the appearance of sorrow.

Mouse

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.

Mouse-Ear

MOUSE-EAR, noun mouse'-ear. A plant of the genus Hieracium; also, a plant of the genus Myosotis, called likewise mouse-ear scorpion grass. The mouse-ear chickweed is of the genus Cerastium.

Mouse-Hole

MOUSE-HOLE, noun mous'hole. A hole where mice enter or pass; a very small hole or entrance.

He can creep in at a mouse-hole

Mouse-Hunt

MOUSE-HUNT, noun mous'hunt. A hunting for mice.

1. A mouser; one that hunts mice.

Mouse-Tail

MOUSE-TAIL, noun mous'-tail. A plant of the genus Myosurus.

Mouse-Trap

MOUSE-TRAP, noun mous'trap. A trap for catching mice.

Mouser

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

Mouth

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.

Mouthed

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.

Mouthfriend

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

Mouthful

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

1. A quantity proverbially small; a small quantity.

Mouthhonor

MOUTH'HONOR, noun Civility expressed without sincerity.

Mouthing

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

Mouthless

MOUTH'LESS, adjective Destitute of a mouth.

Mouthmade

MOUTH'MADE, adjective Expressed without sincerity; hypocritical.

Mouthpiece

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

Movable

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

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

Movables

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

Movably

MOVABLY, adverb So that it may be moved.

Move

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

MOVED, participle passive Stirred; excited.

Moveless

MOVELESS, adjective That cannot be moved; fixed.

The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower.

Movement

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

Movent

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

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

Mover

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

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

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

MOVINGNESS, noun The power of affecting, as the passions.

Mow

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.

Mowburn

MOW'BURN, verb intransitive To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

Mowe

MOWE, verb intransitive To be able; must; may.

Mowed

MOWED

MOWER, noun One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.

Mower

MOWER, n. One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.

Mowing

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

MOWN, participle passive Cut with a scythe.

1. Cleared of grass with a scythe, as land.

Moxa

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

MOYLE, noun A mule. [See Mule.]