Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 72
Moravian (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
Moravian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
Moravian (a) Of or relating to the people or culture of Moravia.
Moravianism (n.) The religious system of the Moravians.
Moray (n.) (Zool.) 海鰻類 A muraena.
Compare: Muraena
Muraena (n.) (Zool.) A genus of large eels of the family Muraenidae. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous. The murry ({Muraena Helenae) of Southern Europe was the muraena of the Romans.
It is highly valued as a food fish. Muraenoid
Moray (n.) Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked [syn: moray, moray eel].
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.
Morbid (a.) Indicating an unhealthy mental attitude or disposition; especially, abnormally gloomy, to an extent not justified by the situation; preoccupied with death, disease, or fear of death; as, a morbid interest in details of a disaster.
Morbid (a.) Gruesome; as, a morbid topic.
Syn: Diseased; sickly; sick.
Usage: Morbid, Diseased. Morbid is sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc.
Morbid (a.) Suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity."
Morbid (a.) Suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details" [syn: ghoulish, morbid].
Morbid (a.) Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological].
Morbidezza (n.) (Fine Arts) 逼真而優美 Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
Morbidezza (n.) (Mus.) 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. -- C. Kingsley.
Morbidity (n.) Amount of disease; rate of sickness.
Morbidity (n.) The relative incidence of a particular disease
Morbidity (n.) An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind; "his fear of being alone verges on morbidity" [syn: morbidity, morbidness].
Morbidity (n.) The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you [syn: unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity] [ant: wholesomeness].
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.
Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. -- Ray.
Morbosity (n.) A diseased state; unhealthiness. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Morceau (n.) [F.] A bit; a morsel.
Morceau (n.) A short literary or musical composition
Mordacious (a.) 辛辣的；銳利的 Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing. -- Mor*da"cious*ly, adv.
Mordacious (a.) Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious].
Mordacious (a.) Biting or given to biting; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount."
Mordacity (n.) （言詞等的）尖銳，刻薄 The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. -- Bacon.
Mordacity (n.) A disposition to biting.
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].
More, () The standard Unix pager program.
See also: less.
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More, (a.) The comparative degree of too much.
Moreen (n.) A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
Morel (n.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.
Morel (n.) Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.
Morel (n.) A kind of cherry. See Morello.
Moreland (n.) Moorland.
Morelle (n.) Nightshade. See 2d Morel.
Morello (n.) 酸櫻桃的一種 A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.
Morendo (a. & n.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.
Moreness (n.) Greatness. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Moreover (adv.) 並且，加之，此外 Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.
Moreover, he hath left you all his walks. -- Shak.
Syn: Besides, Moreover.
Usage: Of the two words, moreover is the stronger and is properly used in solemn discourse, or when what is added is important to be considered. See Besides.
Moreover (adv.) In addition; "computer chess games are getting cheaper all the time; furthermore, their quality is improving"; "the cellar was dark; moreover, mice nested there"; "what is more, there's no sign of a change" [syn: furthermore, moreover, what is more].
Morepork (n.) (Zool.) The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.
Moresk (a. & n.) Moresque. [Obs.]
Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish.
Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. [Written also mauresque.]
Moresque (a.) Relating to or characteristic of the Moors; "Moorish courtyard" [syn: Moorish, Moresque].
Morganatic (a.) Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband. -- Brande & C. -- Mor`ga*nat"ic*al*ly, adv.
Morganatic (a.) (Of marriages) Of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior [syn: morganatic, left-handed].
Morgay (n.) (Zool.) The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.
Morglay (n.) A sword. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Morgue (n.) [F.] [C] 陳屍所A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Morgue (n.) (Newspapers) [C] （報館等的） 資料室；資料檔案 A room containing reference files of older material in a newspaper office; also, the material contained in such a room.
Morgue (n.) A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation [syn: morgue, mortuary, dead room].
Moria (n.) Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.
Moria (n.) Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare elder days, { elvish. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking. See also nethack, rogue, Angband.
Moria, () Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons and Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems.
The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare elder days, elvish. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking.
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Morian (n.) (Ethnol.) A Moor. [Obs.]
In vain the Turks and Morians armed be. -- Fairfax.
Moribund (a.) 垂死的；即將滅亡的 In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
The patient was comatose and moribund. -- Copland.
Moribund (n.) 垂死的人 A dying person. [R.]
Moribund (a.) Not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn: {stagnant}, {moribund}].
Moribund (a.) Being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient."
Moric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.
Morice (n.) See Morisco.
Morigerate (a.) Obedient. [Obs.]
Morigeration (n.) Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Morigerous (a.) Obedient; obsequious. [Obs.] -- Brathwait.
Compare: Morel
Morel (n.) [See moril.] (Bot.) An edible fungus ({Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [Written also moril.]
Moril (n.) (Bot.) An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.
Morin (n.) (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance ({C15H10O7) of acid properties extracted from fustic ({Chlorophora tinctoria syn. Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid and natural yellow 8. It is used as a dye for wool, giving a color from lemon yellow through olive to olive brown, depending on the metal with which it is mordanted.
Morinda (n.) (Bot.) A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.
Morindin (n.) (Chem.) A yellow dyestuff ({C27H30O14) extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant ({Morinda citrifolia) or from the bark of Coprosma australis. The substance is also found in the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia, called noni, which is touted by some merchants to have a stimulatory effect on the immune system. It is a disaccharide derivative of anthracenedione.
Morinel (n.) (Zool.) The dotterel.
Moringa (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species ({Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of Moringa aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.
Moringic (a.) (Chem.) Designating an organic acid obtained from oil of ben. See Moringa.
Morintannic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic ({Chlorophora tinctoria, formerly Maclura tinctoria and Morus tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.
Morion (n.) A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat.
A battered morion on his brow. -- Sir W. Scott.
Morion (n.) [G.] (Min.) A dark variety of smoky quartz.
Morion (n.) A metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century [syn: morion, cabasset].
Morioplasty (n.) (Surg.) The restoration of lost parts of the body.
Morisco (a.) Moresque.
Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. -- Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. -- Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.
Morisk (n.) Same as Morisco.
Morkin (n.) A beast that has died of disease or by mischance. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Morland (n.) Moorland. [Obs.]
Morling (n.) Mortling. [Eng.] -- Ainsworth.
Mormal (n.) A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer. [Obs.] [Written also morrimal and mortmal.] -- Chaucer.
Mormo (n.) A bugbear; false terror. [Obs.] -- Jonhson.
Compare: Puffin
Puffin (n.) (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin ({Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin ({Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
Manx puffin, The Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
Puffin (n.) (Bot.) The puffball.
Puffin (n.) A sort of apple. [Obs.] -- Rider's Dict. (1640).
Compare: Puffball
Puffball (n.) (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus ({Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Puffin (n.) Any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills.
Mormon (n.) (Eccl.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States.
Mormon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.
Mormon (n.) (Zool.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.
Mormon (n.) (Zool.) The mandrill.
Mormon (prop. n.) (Eccl.) One of a Christian denomination (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
Note: The Mormons call their religious organization The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head claims to receive revelations of God's will, and to have certain supernatural powers. The church headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. They form a substantial fraction of the population of Utah, and at the end of the 20th centrury their numbers were increasing due to active proselytization.
Mormon (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Mormon Church; "Mormon leaders"; "the former Mormon practice of polygamy."
Mormon (n.) The ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mormon (n.) A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. [syn: Latter-Day Saint, Mormon]
Mormondom (n.) The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.
Mormonism (n.) The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.
Mormonism (n.) The doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon.