Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M

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Moravian (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.

Moravian (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

Moravianism (n.) The religious system of the Moravians.

Moray (n.) A muraena.

Morbid (a.) 不健全的，病態的，疾病的，可怕的 Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.

Morbid (a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

Morbidezza (n.) 逼真而優美 Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

Morbidezza (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.

Morbidity (n.) 病態，不健全，罹病率 The quality or state of being morbid.

Morbidity (n.) Morbid quality; disease; sickness.

Morbidity (n.) Amount of disease; sick rate.

Morbidly (adv.) 病態地 In a morbid manner.

Morbidly (adv.) In a morbid manner or to a morbid degree; "he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies".

Morbidness (n.) 病態 The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

Morbific (a.) 引起疾病的 Alt. of Morbifical.

Morbific (a.) Able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: {infective}, {morbific}, {pathogenic}]

Morbifical (a.) 引起疾病的 Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.

Morbillous (a.) 麻疹的 Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.

Morbose (a.) Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.

Morbosity (n.) A diseased state; unhealthiness.

Morceau (n.) A bit; a morsel.

Mordacious (a.) Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.

Mordacity (n.) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.

Mordant (a.) 尖酸的；劇烈的；有腐蝕性的 Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

Mordant (a.) (Dyeing & Calico Printing) Serving to fix colors.

Mordant (n.) 金屬腐蝕劑；金箔黏著劑；媒染劑 Any corroding substance used in etching.

Mordant (n.) (Dyeing & Calico Printing) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.

Mordant (n.) (Gilding) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

Mordanted (imp. & p. p.) of Mordant.

Mordanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mordant.

Mordant (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.

Mordant (a.) Harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {grim}, {mordant}].

Mordant (a.) Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: {caustic}, {corrosive}, {erosive}, {vitriolic}, {mordant}].

Mordant (n.) A substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process.

Compare: Etching

Etching (n.) 蝕刻；蝕刻術 [U]；蝕刻畫；蝕刻版[C]；etch 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 A print produced by the process of etching.

‘Etchings of animals and wildflowers.’

Etching (n.) [Mass noun] The art or process of producing etched plates or objects.

‘The artist dispensed with the medium of etching.’

‘A dozen cycles of etching interspersed with the implantation of ions.’

Mordantly (adv.) 染色地（mordant 的副詞形式）；尖銳地；腐蝕地；尖刻地 In the manner of a mordant.

Mordente (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.

Mordicancy (n.) A biting quality; corrosiveness.

Mordicant (a.) Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body.

Mordication (n.) The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.

Mordicative (a.) Biting; corrosive.

More (n.) A hill. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

More (n.) A root. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

More (a.) Greater; superior; increased; as:

More (a.) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.

He gat more money. -- Chaucer.

If we procure not to ourselves more woe. -- Milton.

Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more.

Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. -- Spenser.

The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. -- Acts xix. 32.

Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. -- Shak.

More (a.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.

The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. -- Ex. i. 9.

More (a.) Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.

With open arms received one poet more. -- Pope.

More (n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. -- Ex. xvi. 17.

More (n.) That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.

They that would have more and more can never have enough. -- L'Estrange.

O! That pang where more than madness lies. -- Byron.

Any more. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.

Any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.

No more, Not anything more; nothing in addition.

The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] --Shak. "All cried, both less and more." -- Chaucer.

More (adv.) In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

More (adv.) With a verb or participle.

Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. -- Milton.

More (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. -- Bacon.

Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer.

The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. -- Shak.

More (adv.) In addition; further; besides; again.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. -- Milton.

More and more, With continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more." -- 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.

The more, To a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.

The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. "The more he praised it in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him." -- Milton.

To be no more, To have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more.

Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. -- Byron.

More (v. t.) To make more; to increase. [Obs.] -- Gower.

More (adv.) Used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly" [syn: more, to a greater extent] [ant: less, to a lesser extent].

More (adv.) Comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should" [ant: less].

More (a.) (Comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon" [syn: more(a), more than] [ant: less(a)].

More (a.) (Comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number; "a hall with more seats"; "we have no more bananas"; "more than one" [ant: fewer].

More (n.) English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state [syn: More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More].

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