Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 70
Monumental (a.) 紀念建築物的；紀念性的 [B] ；巨大的；重要的；留存於歷史上的；不朽的；【口】非常的，極端的 Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
Monumental (a.) Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." -- Milton.
A work outlasting monumental brass. -- Pope.
Monumental (a.) Of lasting significance; as, a monumental work of literature; a monumental accomplishment.
Monumental (a.) Exceptionally large in quantity, quality, or degree; as, a monumental amount of work to be done.
Monumental (a.) Relating or belonging to or serving as a monument; "the use of the arch in monumental architecture"; "monumental sculptures".
Monumental (a.) Of outstanding significance; "Einstein's monumental contributions to physics".
Monumental (a.) Imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale" [syn: massive, monolithic, monumental].
Monumentally (adv.) 作為紀念碑地；龐然地；不朽地；【口】非常 By way of memorial.
Monumentally (adv.) By means of monuments.
Monureid (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]
Moo (adv., & n.) See
Mooed (imp. & p. p.) of Moo
Mooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo
Moo (v. i.) To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.
Moo (n.) The lowing of a cow.
Moo (n.) The sound made by a cow or bull
Moo (v.) Make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo, low].
MOO, () MUD Object Orientated (Internet, OOP, MUD)
MUD Object Oriented
MOO
(MOO) One of the many MUD spin-offs (e.g. MUSH, MUSE, and MUX) created to diversify the realm of interactive text-based gaming. A MOO is similar to a MUSH in that the users themselves can create objects, rooms, and code to add to the environment.
The most frequently used server software for running a MOO is LambdaMOO but alternatives include WinMOO
(1999-05-25)
Mood (n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Mood (n.) (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
Mood (n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Till at the last aslaked was his mood. -- Chaucer.
Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. -- Shak.
The desperate recklessness of her mood. -- Hawthorne.
Mood (n.) A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper, mood, humor, humour].
Mood (n.) The prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood].
Mood (n.) Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality].
Mooder (n.) Mother. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Moodily (adv.) In a moody manner.
Moodily (adv.) In a moody manner; "in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic".
Moodiness (n.) The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Moodiness (n.) A sullen gloomy feeling
Moodiness (n.) Having temperamental and changeable moods.
Moodir (n.) The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]
Moodish (a.) Moody. [Obs.]
Moodishly (adv.) Moodily. [Obs.]
Moody (a.) 心情不穩的，喜怒無常的；悶悶不樂的，鬱鬱寡歡的 Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
Moody (a.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." -- Rowe.
Arouse thee from thy moody dream! -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious. Moolah
Moody (a.) Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen].
Moody (a.) Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: moody, temperamental].
Moody (n.) United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) [syn: Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills]
Moody (n.) United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody].
Moody -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 6595
Housing Units (2000): 2745
Land area (2000): 519.672138 sq. miles (1345.944602 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.425682 sq. miles (3.692498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 521.097820 sq. miles (1349.637100 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.014833 N, 96.658939 W
Headwords:
Moody
Moody, SD
Moody County
Moody County, SD
Moody, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 8053
Housing Units (2000): 3317
Land area (2000): 23.890636 sq. miles (61.876461 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.143462 sq. miles (0.371565 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 24.034098 sq. miles (62.248026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51096
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.592469 N, 86.496369 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moody, AL
Moody
Moody, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1400
Housing Units (2000): 616
Land area (2000): 0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49200
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.307489 N, 97.360210 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76557
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moody, TX
Moody
Mollah (n.) One of the higher order of Turkish; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also mullah and moolah.]
Mollah (n.) A title of respect used in Islamic countries for one who is learned in Islamic law; a teacher or expounder of Islamic law.
Moolah (n.) Alt. of Moollah
Moollah (n.) See Mollah.
Moola, moolah (n.) Money. [slang]
Moolah (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum].
Moolley (n.) Same as Mulley. moola
Mulley, Moolley (n.) A mulley or polled animal. [U. S.]
Mulley, Moolley (n.) A cow. [Prov. Eng.; U.S., a child's word.]
Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow. -- Tusser. Mulley
Mulley, Moolley (a.) Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow. [U. S.] [Written also muley.] Mulligan
Moon (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
The crescent moon, the diadem of night. -- Cowper.
Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Moon (n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month ; as, it's been many moons since I last visited Washington. -- Shak.
Moon (n.) (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
Moon (n.) The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang]
Moon blindness. (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks.
Moon blindness. (Med.) Hemeralopia.
Moon dial, A dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
Moon face, A round face like a full moon.
Moon madness, Lunacy. [Poetic]
Moon month, A lunar month.
Moon trefoil (Bot.), A shrubby species of medic ({Medicago arborea). See Medic.
Moon year, A lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
Blue moon, See blue moon in the vocabulary.
Many moons, A long time.
Moon (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Mooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooning.] To expose to the rays of the moon.
If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. -- Holland.
Moon (v. t.) To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. -- C. Kingsley.
Moon (n.) The natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969" [syn: Moon, moon].
Moon (n.) Any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases".
Moon (n.) The period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn: lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month].
Moon (n.) The light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight, moonshine, Moon].
Moon (n.) United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Moon, Sun Myung Moon].
Moon (n.) Any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons".
Moon (v.) Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream, moon].
Moon (v.) Be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: moon, moon around, moon on].
Moon (v.) Expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience".
Moon, () Heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the "white" (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun "for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years" (Gen. 1:14-16). A lunation was among the Jews the period of a month, and several of their festivals were held on the day of the new moon. It is frequently referred to along with the sun (Josh. 10:12; Ps. 72:5, 7, 17; 89:36, 37; Eccl. 12:2; Isa. 24:23, etc.), and also by itself (Ps. 8:3; 121:6).
The great brilliance of the moon in Eastern countries led to its being early an object of idolatrous worship (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; Job 31:26), a form of idolatry against which the Jews were warned (Deut. 4:19; 17:3). They, however, fell into this idolatry, and offered incense (2 Kings 23:5; Jer. 8:2), and also cakes of honey, to the moon (Jer. 7:18; 44:17-19, 25).
Mooned (imp. & p. p.) of Moon
Mooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moon
Moon (v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. -- Holland.
Moon (v. t.) To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. -- C. Kingsley.
Moonbeam (n.) A ray of light from the moon.
Moonblind (a.) Dim-sighted; purblind.
Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
Mooncalf (n.) A dolt; a stupid fellow. -- Dryden.
Moon-culminating (a.) Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
Mooned (a.) Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned horns." "Mooned Ashtaroth." -- Milton.
Mooner (n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] -- Dickens.
Moonery (n.) Conduct of one who moons. [R.]
Moonet (n.) A little moon. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Moon-eye (n.) A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
Moon-eye (n.) (Zool.) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters.
Moon-eye (n.) (Zool.) The cisco.
Moon-eyed (a.) Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
Moon-faced (a.) Having a round, full face.
Compare: Spadefish
Spadefish (n.) (Zool.) An American market fish ({Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) An American marine fish ({Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ({Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
Moonflower (n.) (Bot.) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
Moonflower (n.) (Bot.) A kind of morning glory ({Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
Moong (n.) (Bot.) Same as Mung.
Moonglade (n.) The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]
Compare: Kinglet
Kinglet (n.) A little king; a weak or insignificant king. -- Carlyle.
Kinglet (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviid[ae].
Note: The golden-crowned kinglet ({Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet ({Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet ({Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.
Moonie (n.) (Zool.) The European goldcrest.
Moonie (prop. n.) A member of the Unification Church, founded by Sun Myun Moon. [informal & contemptuous.]
Moony (prop. n.) A follower of the Rev. Sun Myun Moon; a member of the Unification Church; -- often considered disparaging. [Also spelled Moonie.]
Moonish (a.) Like the moon; variable.
Being but a moonish youth. -- Shak.
Moonless (a.) Being without a moon or moonlight.
Moonlight (n.) The light of the moon.
Moonlight (a.) Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
Moonlight (v. i.) To work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night.
Moonling (n.) A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]
Moonlit (a.) Illumined by the moon. "The moonlit sea." -- Moore. "Moonlit dells." -- Lowell.
Moonraker (n.) (Naut.) Same as Moonsail.
Moonrise (n.) The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
Moonsail (n.) (Naut.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Moonseed (n.) (Bot.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
Moonshee (n.) A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. [India]
Moonshine (n.) The light of the moon.
Moonshine (n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
Moonshine (n.) A month. [R.] -- Shak.
Moonshine (n.) A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]
Moonshine (n.) Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
Moonshine (a.) Moonlight. [R.] -- Clarendon.
Moonshine (a.) Empty; trivial; idle.
Moonshine (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
Moonshiner (n.) A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]
Moonshiny (a.) Moonlight. [Colloq.]
I went to see them in a moonshiny night. -- Addison.
Moonstone (n.) (Min.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Moonstricken (a.) See Moonstruck.
Moonstruck (a.) 發狂的；迷亂的；發呆的；月光照耀著的 Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
Moonstruck (a.) Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. "Moonstruck madness." -- Milton.
Moonstruck (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
Moonstruck (a.) Insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: lunatic, moonstruck].
Compare: Honesty
Honesty (n.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. -- Shak.
Honesty (n.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. -- 1 Tim. ii. 2.
Honesty (n.) Chastity; modesty. -- Chaucer.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. -- Shak.
Honesty (n.) (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.
Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.
Lunaria (prop. n.) A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, honesty+({Lunaria+annua">including the herb honesty ({Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.
Syn: genus Lunaria.
Moonwort (n.) (Bot.) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.
Moonwort (n.) (Bot.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
Moony (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.
Soft and pale as the moony beam. -- J. R. Drake.
Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. -- Fenton.
Moony (a.) Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] -- G. Eliot.
Moony (prop. n.) A follower of the Rev. Sun Myun Moon; a member of the Unification Church; -- often considered disparaging. [Also spelled Moonie.]
Moor (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
Moor (n.) (Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." -- Internat. Cyc.
Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. -- Carew.
Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Moor buzzard (Zool.), The marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
Moor coal (Geol.), A friable variety of lignite.
Moor cock (Zool.), The male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe.
Moor coot. (Zool.) See Gallinule.
Moor game. (Zool.) Same as Moor fowl.
Moor grass (Bot.), A tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria caerulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
Moor hawk (Zool.), The marsh harrier.
Moor hen. (Zool.) The female of the moor fowl.
Moor hen. (Zool.) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule.
Moor hen. (Zool.) An Australian rail ({Tribonyx ventralis).
Moor monkey (Zool.), The black macaque of Borneo ({Macacus maurus).
Moor titling (Zool.), The European stonechat ({Pratinocola rubicola).
Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moor
Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moor
Moor (v. t.) (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. -- Brougham.
Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
On oozy ground his galleys moor. -- Dryden.
Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
Moorball (n.) (Bot.) A fresh-water alga ({Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Moorband (n.) See Moorpan.
Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman. moorfowl.
Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
Mooring (n.) pl. The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
And the tossed bark in moorings swings. -- Moore.
Mooring block (Naut.), A heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.