Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 71
Moorish (a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." -- Thomson.
Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Moorish architecture, () The style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. Under Moresque.
Moorish (a.) Relating to or characteristic of the Moors; "Moorish courtyard" [syn: Moorish, Moresque].
Moorish (n.) A style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by horseshoe-shaped arches [syn: Moorish, Moorish architecture].
Moorland (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Moorland (n.) Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss [syn: moor, moorland].
Moorland, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 197
Housing Units (2000): 83
Land area (2000): 0.999558 sq. miles (2.588842 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.999558 sq. miles (2.588842 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53895
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.442108 N, 94.293661 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50566
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moorland, IA
Moorland
Moorland, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 464
Housing Units (2000): 213
Land area (2000): 0.096058 sq. miles (0.248788 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.096058 sq. miles (0.248788 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53328
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.273020 N, 85.579048 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moorland, KY
Moorland
Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
Moorstone (n.) A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
Mooruk (n.) [Native name.] (Zool.) A species of cassowary ({Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
Moory (a.) Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. -- Mortimer.
As when thick mists arise from moory vales. -- Fairfax.
Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India. -- Balfour (Cyc of India).
Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
Moose (n.) [ C ] (pl. Moose) (UK also elk) 麋，駝鹿 A type of large deer with large, flat horns and a long nose that lives in the forests of North America, northern Europe, and Asia.
Moosewood (n.) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
Moosewood (n.) Leatherwood.
Moot (v.) See 1st Mot.
Moot (n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Mooted (imp. & p. p.) of Moot.
Mooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moot.
Moot (v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
Moot (v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
Moot (v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
Moot (v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
Moot (a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
Mootable (a.) Capable of being mooted.
Mooter (n.) A disputer of a mooted case.
Moot-hall (n.) Alt. of Moot-house.
Moot-house (n.) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill.
Mootmen (n. pl. ) of Mootman.
Mootman (n.) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
Mop (n.) A made-up face; a grimace.
Mop (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.
Mop (n.) An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Mop (n.) A fair where servants are hired.
Mop (n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
Mopped (imp. & p. p.) of Mop.
Mopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mop.
Mop (v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
Mopboard (n.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
Moped (imp. & p. p.) of Mope.
Moping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mope.
Mope (v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
Mope (v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
Mope (n.) A dull, spiritless person.
Mope-eyed (a.) Shortsighted; purblind.
Mopeful (a.) Mopish.
Mopish (a.) Dull; spiritless; dejected.
Moplah (n.) One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
Moppet (n.) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Moppet (n.) A long-haired pet dog.
Mopsey (n.) Alt. of Mopsy.
Mopsy (n.) A moppet.
Mopsy (n.) A slatternly, untidy woman.
Mopsical (a.) Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
Mopstick (n.) The long handle of a mop.
Mopus (n.) A mope; a drone.
Moquette (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Mora (n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
Mora (n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
Mora (n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
Moraine (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
Morainic (a.) Of or pertaining to a moranie.
Moral (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
Moral (a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
Moral (a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
Moral (a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
Moral (a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
Moral (a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
Moral (n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
Moral (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
Moral (n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.
Moral (v. i.) To moralize.
Morale (a.) The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
Moraler (n.) A moralizer.
Moralism (n.) A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.
Moralist (n.) One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.
Moralist (n.) One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
Moralities (n. pl. ) of Morality.
Morality (n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
Morality (n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
Morality (n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
Morality (n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
Morality (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
Morality (n.) Intent; meaning; moral.
Morality (n.) [ C or U ] 道德體系；道德觀；道德；道義 A set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour and character.
// They argued for a new morality based on self-sacrifice and honesty.
Moralization (n.) The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
Moralization (n.) Explanation in a moral sense.
Moralized (imp. & p. p.) of Moralize.
Moralizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moralize.
Moralize (v. t.) To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
Moralize (v. t.) To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
Moralize (v. t.) To render moral; to correct the morals of.
Moralize (v. t.) To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
Moralize (v. i.) To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
Moralizer (n.) One who moralizes.
Morally (adv.) In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
Morally (adv.) According to moral rules; virtuously.
Morally (adv.) In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
Morally (adv.) In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.
Morass (n.) 沼澤，低窪濕地 [C] ；困境；亂糟糟的一堆 [U] [S1] A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.
Morass (n.) A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack].
Morass (n.) - Morassy (adj.) : An area of soft, wet ground : a marsh or swamp.
Morass (n.) Marsh, Swamp.
Morass (n.) A situation that traps, confuses, or impedes.
// A legal morass.
Morass (n.) An overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture.
// A morass of traffic jams -- Mary Roach.
Morass (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Complicated situation) 泥沼；困境 Something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with and makes any progress almost impossible.
// The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.
Morass (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Wet ground) (Literary) 沼澤，泥淖 An area of soft, wet ground in which it is easy to get stuck.
Morassy (a.) Marshy; fenny. [R.] -- Pennant.
Morassy (a.) Of or related to a morass or fen.
Morate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of moric acid.
Moration (n.) A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.