Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 73
Mormonite (n.) A Mormon.
Mormonite (a.) Mormon. "Mormonite religion." -- F. W. Newman.
Morn (n.) The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.
From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve. -- Milton.
Morn (n.) The time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon].
Morne (a.) Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. [Obs.] "White as morne milk." -- Chaucer.
Morne (n.) A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Morn'e (a.) (Her.) Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.
Morne (n.) The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.
Morne (n.) The first or early part; as, the morning of life.
Morne (n.) The goddess Aurora.
Morne (n.) A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Morning (a.) Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.
She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. -- Shak.
Morning gown, A gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day.
Morning gun, A gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts.
Morning sickness (Med.), Nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; -- a common sign of pregnancy.
Morning star. (a) Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening.
Morning star. (b) Satan. See Lucifer.
Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far. -- Byron.
Morning star. (c) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes, either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a chain.
Morning watch (Naut.), The watch between four a. m. and eight a. m.. Morning glory
Morning (n.) The time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon].
Morning (n.) A conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good morning, morning].
Morning (n.) The first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset].
Morning (n.) The earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning].
Morning-glory (n.) (Bot.) A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.
Morningtide (n.) Morning time. [Poetic]
Mornward (adv.) Towards the morn. [Poetic]
And mornward now the starry hands move on. --Lowell.
Moros (n. pl.; sing. Moro.) (Ethnol.) The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.
Moro (n.) (Med.) A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. -- Dunglison.
Moro (prop. n.; pl. Moros) (Ethnol.) A member of any of the Moros, a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Mohammedanism.
Moro (prop. n.; pl. Moros) (Linguistics) Any of the languages of the Moro people, of the Austronesian language family.
Moro (n.) A member of the predominantly Muslim people in the southern Philippines.
Moro, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 241
Housing Units (2000): 115
Land area (2000): 0.945042 sq. miles (2.447648 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.945042 sq. miles (2.447648 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46910
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.794503 N, 90.990119 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72368
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moro, AR
Moro
Moro, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 150
Land area (2000): 0.483906 sq. miles (1.253312 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.483906 sq. miles (1.253312 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50000
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.484883 N, 120.732186 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97039
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moro, OR
Moro
Moroccan (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.
Morocco (n.) A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.
Morology (n.) Foolish talk; nonsense; folly.
Morone (n.) Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.
Morosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.
Morose (a.) 鬱悶的，乖僻的 Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Morose (a.) 陰鬱的；脾氣不好的；孤僻的 Unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile.
// A morose expression.
// Why are you so morose these days?
Synonym:
Sullen (a.) 慍怒的；悶悶不樂的，繃著臉的 Angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people.
// His daughters stared back at him with an expression of sullen resentment.
// (Literary) She looked up at the sullen (= dark and unpleasant) sky and shuddered.
Morosely (adv.) 愁眉苦臉地；憂鬱地 Sourly; with sullen austerity.
Morosely (adv.) In a morose manner; "he fell morosely on the bed".
Moroseness (n.) Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. -- I. Watts.
Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.
Moroseness (n.) A gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness].
Moroseness (n.) A sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness].
Morosis (n.) (Med.) Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.
Morosity (n.) Moroseness. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Moroshop (n.) A philosophical or learned fool.
Morosous (a.) Morose. [Obs.] -- Sheldon.
Moroxite (n.) (Min.) A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.
Moroxylate (n.) (Chem.) A morate.
Moroxylic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.
Morphean (a.) Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. -- Keats.
Morpheme (n.) (Linguistics) 【語】語素，詞素（語言中最小的字義單位） The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form.
Morpheme (n.) Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units.
Morpheus (n.) (Class. Myth.) The god of dreams.
Morpheus (n.) The Roman god of sleep and dreams.
Morphew (n.) A scurfy eruption. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Morphew (v. t.) To cover with a morphew. [Obs.]
Morphia (n.) [NL.] (Chem.) Morphine.
Morphine (n.) (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
Morphia (n.) An alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain [syn: morphine, morphia].
Morphine (n.) (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
Morphine (n.) An alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain [syn: morphine, morphia].
Morphine (n.) [ U ] 嗎啡A drug made from opium, used to stop people from feeling pain or to make people feel calmer.
Morphinism (n.) (Med.) A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.
Morpho (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.
Morphogeny (n.) (Biol.) History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny. -- Haeckel. Morphologic
Morphologic (a.) Alt. of Morphological
Morphological (a.) Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology. -- Mor`pho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Morphologic (a.) Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences" [syn: morphologic, morphological, structural].
Morphologic (a.) Relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language [syn: morphologic, morphological].
Morphologic (a.) Pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface" [syn: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural].
Morphologist (n.) One who is versed in the science of morphology.
Morphology (n.) That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.
Morphon (n.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology.
Morphonomy (n.) The laws of organic formation.
Morphophyly (n.) The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions.
Morphosis (n.) The order or mode of development of an organ or part.
Morphotic (a.) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids.
-morphous () A combining form denoting form, shape; as, isomorphous.
Morpion (n.) A louse.
Morrice (n.) Same as 1st Morris.
Morrice (a.) Dancing the morrice; dancing.
Morricer (n.) A morris dancer.
Morrimal (n. & a.) See Mormal.
Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.
Morris (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.
Morris (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played.
Morris (n.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.
Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Morrot (n.) See Marrot.
Morrow (n.) Morning.
Morrow (n.) The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood.
Morrow (n.) The day following the present; to-morrow.
Morse (n.) The walrus. See Walrus.
Morse (n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.
Morse alphabet () A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.
Morsel (n.) A little bite or bit of food.
Morsel (n.) A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming.
Morsitation (n.) The act of biting or gnawing.
Morsure (n.) The act of biting.
Mort (n.) (Zool.) 三歲鮭魚 A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
Mort (n.) 通知獵物已死的號角聲 Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
Mort (n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. -- Sir W. Scott.
Mort (n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
{Mort cloth}, The pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. -- Carlyle.
{Mort stone}, A large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] -- H. Taylor.
Mort (n.) 很多，多數 A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
There was a mort of merrymaking. -- Dickens.
Mort (n.) A woman; a female. [Cant. archaic]
Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. -- B. Jonson.
Mort (n.) A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
Mortal (n.) 人，凡人 [C] [P1] A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind." -- Tickell.
Mortal (a.) 會死的；死的；臨死的；人的，凡人的 [B]；致死的，致命的；你死我活的，不共戴天的 [B]；極大的，極度的 [B] Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
Mortal (a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
Mortal (a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.
Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. -- Milton.
Mortal (a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. -- Pope.
Mortal (a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. -- Dryden.
Mortal (a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful. -- Milton.
Mortal (a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [Colloq.] -- Sir W. Scott.
{Mortal foe}, {Mortal enemy}, An inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.
Mortal (a.) Subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: {immortal}].
Mortal (a.) Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: {deadly}, {mortal(a)}].
Mortal (a.) Unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy".
Mortal (a.) Causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: {deadly}, {deathly}, {mortal}].
Mortal (n.) A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: {person}, {individual}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal}, {soul}].
Mortality (n.) [U] 必死性；死亡數；死亡率 [S1] The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. -- Carew.
Mortality (n.) Human life; the life of a mortal being.
From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. -- Shak.
Mortality (n.) Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief. -- Pope.
Mortality (n.) Death; destruction. -- Shak.
Mortality (n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
{Bill of mortality}. See under {Bill}.
{Law of mortality}, A mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years.
{Table of mortality}, A table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.
Mortality (n.) The quality or state of being mortal [ant: {immortality}].
Mortality (n.) The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: {deathrate}, {death rate}, {mortality}, {mortality rate}, {fatality rate}].
Mortalized (imp. & p. p.) of Mortalize.
Mortalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortalize.
Mortalize (v. t.) To make mortal. [R.]
Mortally (adv.) In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.
Mortally (adv.) In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.
I was mortally brought forth. -- Shak.
Mortally (adv.) In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.
Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. -- Bacon.
Mortally (adv.) In such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.); "a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle".
Mortalness (n.) Quality of being mortal; mortality.
Mortar (n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Mortar (n.) (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45[deg], and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
Mortar bed (Mil.), A framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar.
Mortar boat or Mortar vessel (Naut.), A boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch.
Mortar piece, A mortar. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mortar (n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
Mortar bed, A shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed.