Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 74
Mortar (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
Mortar (n.) A chamber lamp or light. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mortar (n.) A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range [syn: mortar, howitzer, trench mortar].
Mortar (n.) Used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall.
Mortar (n.) A bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle.
Mortar (v.) Plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall".
Mortar, () (Heb. homer), cement of lime and sand (Gen. 11:3; Ex. 1:14); also potter's clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14). Also Heb. 'aphar, usually rendered "dust," clay or mud used for cement in building (Lev. 14:42, 45).
Mortar for pulverizing (Prov. 27:22) grain or other substances by means of a pestle instead of a mill. Mortars were used in the wilderness for pounding the manna (Num. 11:8). It is commonly used in Palestine at the present day to pound wheat, from which the Arabs make a favourite dish called kibby.
Mortgage (n.) 抵押 [U] [C]；抵押借款 [C]；抵押契據 [C] (Law) A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.
Note: It was called a mortgage (or dead pledge) because, whatever profit it might yield, it did not thereby redeem itself, but became lost or dead to the mortgager upon breach of the condition. But in equity a right of redemption is an inseparable incident of a mortgage until the mortgager is debarred by his own laches, or by judicial decree. -- Cowell. -- Kent.
Mortgage (n.) State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
{Chattel mortgage}. See under {Chattel}.
{To foreclose a mortgage}. See under {Foreclose}.
{Mortgage deed} (Law), A deed given by way of mortgage.
Mortgaged (imp. & p. p.) Of Mortgage.
Mortgaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortgage.
Mortgage (v. t.) (Law) 抵押 [（+to/ for）]；【口】以……作擔保，把……許給 [（+to）] To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
Mortgaging their lives to covetise. -- Spenser.
I myself an mortgaged to thy will. -- Shak.
Mortgage (n.) A conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan.
Mortgage (v.) Put up as security or collateral.
Mortgage, () contracts, conveyancing. Mortgages are of several kinds: as the concern the kind of property, mortgaged, they are mortgages of lands, tenements, and, hereditaments, or of goods and chattels; as they affect the title of the thing mortgaged, they are legal and equitable.
Mortgage, () In equity all kinds of property; real or personal, which are capable of an absolute sale, may be the subject of a mortgage; rights in remainder and reversion, franchises, and choses in action, may, therefore, be mortgaged; But a mere possibility or expectancy, as that of an heir, cannot. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1021; 4 Kent, Com. 144; 1 Powell, Mortg. 17, 23; 3 Meri. 667.
Mortgage, () A legal mortgage of lands may be described to be a conveyance of lands, by a debtor to his creditor, as a pledge and security for the repayment of a sum of money borrowed, or performance of a covenant; 1 Watts, R. 140; with a proviso, that such conveyance shall be void on payment of the money and interest on a certain day, or the performance of such covenant by the time appointed, by which the conveyance of the land becomes absolute at law, yet the, mortgagor has an equity of redemption, that is, a right in equity on the performance of the agreement within a reasonable time, to call for a re-conveyance of the land. Cruise, Dig. t. 15, c. 1, s. 11; 1 Pow. on Mortg. 4 a, n.; 2 Chip. 100; 1 Pet. R. 386; 2 Mason, 531; 13 Wend. 485; 5 Verm. 532; 1 Yeates, 579; 2 Pick. 211.
Mortgage, () It is an universal rule in equity that once a mortgage, always a mortgage; 2 Cowen, R. 324; 1 Yeates, R. 584; every attempt, therefore, to defeat the equity of redemption, must fail. See Equity of Redemption.
Mortgage, () As to the form, such a mortgage must be in writing, when it is intended to convey the legal title. 1 Penna. R. 240. It is either in one single deed which contains the whole contract -- and which is the usual form -- or, it is two separate instruments, the one containing an absolute conveyance, and the other a defeasance. 2 Johns. Ch. Rep. 189; 15 Johns. R. 555; 2 Greenl. R. 152; 12 Mass. 456; 7 Pick. 157; 3 Wend, 208; Addis. 357; 6 Watts, 405; 3 Watts, 188; 3 Fairf. 346; 7 Wend. 248. But it may be observed in general, that whatever clauses or covenants there are in a conveyance, though they seem to import an absolute disposition or conditional purchase, yet if, upon the whole, it appears to have been the intention of the parties that such conveyance should be a mortgage only, or pass an estate redeemable, a court of equity will always so construe it. Vern. 183, 268, 394; Prec Ch. 95; 1 Wash. R 126; 2 Mass. R. 493; 4 John. R. 186; 2 Cain. Er. 124.
Mortgage, () As the money borrowed on mortgage is seldom paid on the day appointed, mortgages have now become entirely subject to the court of chancery, where it is an established rule that the mortgagee holds the estate merely as a pledge or security for the repayment of his money; therefore a mortgage is considered in equity as personal estate.
Mortgage, () The mortgagor is held to be the real owner of the land, the debt being considered the principal, and the land the accessory; whenever the debt is discharged, the interest of the mortgagee in the lands determines of course, and he is looked on in equity as a trustee for the mortgagor.
Mortgage, () An equitable mortgage of lands is one where the mortgagor does not convey regularly the land, but does some act by which he manifests his determination to bind the same for the security of a debt he owes. An agreement in writing to transfer an estate as a security for the repayment of a sum of money borrowed, or even a deposit of title deeds, and a verbal agreement, will have the same effect of creating an equitable mortgage. 1 Rawle, Rep. 328; 5 Wheat. R. 284; 1 Cox's Rep. 211. But in Pennsylvania there is no such a thing as an equitable mortgage. 3 P. S. R. 233. Such an agreement will be carried into execution in equity against the mortgagor, or any one claiming under him with notice, either actual or constructive, of such deposit having been made. 1 Bro. C. C. 269; 2 Dick. 759; 2 Anstr. 427; 2 East, R. 486; 9 Ves. jr. 115; 11 Ves. jr. 398, 403; 12 Ves. jr. 6, 192; 1 John. Cas. 116; 2 John. Ch. R. 608; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1020. Miller, Eq. Mortg. passim.
Mortgage, () A mortgage of goods is distinguishable from a mere pawn. 5 Verm. 532; 9 Wend. 80; 8 John. 96. By a grant or conveyance of goods in gage or mortgage, the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee, and if not redeemed at the time stipulated, the title becomes absolute at law, though equity will interfere to compel a redemption. But, in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledger. There have been some cases of mortgages of chattels, which have been held valid without any actual possession in the mortgagee; but they stand upon very peculiar grounds and may be deemed exceptions to the general rule. 2 Pick. R. 607; 5 Pick. R. 59; 5 Johns. R. 261; Sed vide 12 Mass. R. 300; 4 Mass. R. 352; 6 Mass. R. 422; 15 Mass. R. 477; 5 S. & R. 275; 12 Wend. 277: 15 Wend. 212, 244; 1 Penn. 57. Vide, generally,, Powell on Mortgages; Cruise, Dig. tit. 15; Viner, Ab. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t., Com. Dig. h.t.; American Digests, generally, h.t.; New, York Rev. Stat. p. 2, c. 3; 9 Wend. 80; 9 Greenl. 79; 12 Wend. 61; 2 Wend. 296; 3 Cowen, 166; 9 Wend. 345; 12 Wend. 297; 5 Greenl. 96; 14 Pick. 497; 3 Wend. 348; 2 Hall, 63; 2 Leigh, 401; 15 Wend. 244; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Mortgage, () It is proper to, observe that a conditional sale with the right to repurchase very nearly resembles a mortgage; but they are distinguishable. It is said that if the debt remains, the transaction is a mortgage, but if the debt is extinguished by mutual agreement, or the money advanced is not loaned, but the grantor has a right to refund it in a given time, and have a reconveyance, this is a conditional sale. 2 Edw. R. 138; 2 Call, R. 354; 5 Gill & John. 82; 2 Yerg. R. 6; 6 Yerg. R. 96; 2 Sumner, R. 487; 1 Paige, R. 56; 2 Ball & Beat. 274. In cases of doubt, however, courts of equity will always lean in favor of a mortgage. 7 Cranch, R. 237; 2 Desaus. 564.
Mortgage, () According to the laws of Louisiana a mortgage is a right granted to the creditor over the property of his debtor, for the security of his debt, and gives him the power of having the property seized and sold in default of payment. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 3245.
Mortgage, () Mortgage is conventional, legal or judicial. 1st. The conventional mortgage is a contract by which a person binds the whole of his property, or a portion of it only, in favor of another, to secure the execution of some engagement, but without divesting himself of the possession. Civ. Code, art. 3257.
MORTGAGE, () Legal mortgage is that which is created by operation of law: this is also called tacit mortgage, because it is established by the law, without the aid of any agreement. Art. 3279. A few examples will show the nature of this mortgage. Minors, persons interdicted, and absentees, "have a legal mortgage on the property of their tutors and curators, as a security for their administration; and the latter have a mortgage on the property of the former for advances which they have made. The property of persons who, without being lawfully appointed curators or tutors of minors, &c., interfere with their property, is bound by a legal mortgage from the day on which the first act of interference was done.
Mortgage, () The judicial mortgage is that resulting from judgments, whether these be rendered on contested cases or by default, whether they be final or provisional, in favor of the person obtaining them. Art. 3289.
Mortgage, () Mortgage, with respect to the manner in which it binds the property, is divided into general mortgage, or special mortgage. General mortgage is that which binds all the property, present or future, of the debtor. Special mortgage is that which binds only certain specified property. Art. 3255.
Mortgage, () The following objects are alone susceptible of mortgage: 1. Immovables, subject to alienation, and their accessories considered likewise as immovable. 2. The usufruct of the same description of property with its accessories during the time of its duration. 3. Slave's. 4. Ships and other vessels. Art. 3256.
Mortgagee (n.) (Law) The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given. Mortgageor
Mortgagee (n.) The person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home" [syn: mortgagee, mortgage holder].
Mortgagee, () estates, contracts. He to whom a mortgage is made.
Mortgagee, () He is entitled to the payment of the money secured to him by the mortgage; he has the legal estate in the land mortgaged, and may recover it in ejectment, on the other hand he cannot commit waste; 4 Watts, R. 460; he cannot make leases to the injury of the mortgagor; and he must account for the profits he receives out of the thing mortgaged when in possession. Cruise, Dig. tit. 15, c. 2.
Mortgageor (n.) Alt. of Mortgagor.
Mortgagor (n.) One who gives a mortgage.
Note: The letter e is required analogically after the second g in order to soften it; but the spelling mortgagor is in fact the prevailing form. When the word is contradistinguished from mortgagee it is accented on the last syllable (-j[^o]r").
Mortgager (n.) (Law) One who gives a mortgage.
Mortgager (n.) The person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid; "we became mortgagors when the bank accepted our mortgage and loaned us the money to buy our new home" [syn: mortgagor, mortgager].
Mortiferous (a.) Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. --Gov. of Tongue.
Mortification (n.) [U] 屈辱；羞愧；失面子；【宗】禁慾；苦行；【醫】壞疽 The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified ; especially:
Mortification (n.) (Med.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
Mortification (n.) (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
The mortification of our lusts has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasonable. -- Tillotson.
Mortification (n.) Deep humiliation or shame, from a loss of pride; painful embarassment, usually arising from exposure of a mistake; chagrin; vexation.
Mortification (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit. -- L'Estrange.
Mortification (n.) (Scots Law) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Syn: Chagrin; vexation; shame. See Chagrin.
Mortification (n.) Strong feelings of embarrassment [syn: {chagrin}, {humiliation}, {mortification}].
Mortification (n.) The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) [syn: {necrosis}, {mortification}, {gangrene}, {sphacelus}].
Mortification (n.) An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another" [syn: {humiliation}, {mortification}].
Mortification (n.) (Christianity) The act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself).
Mortification, () Scotch law. This term is nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Mortification (n.) [ U ] 丟臉；難堪 A feeling of being very embarrassed.
// To the mortification of the show's organizers, the top performer withdrew at the last minute.
Idiom: Mortification of the flesh
Mortification of the flesh 苦修（尤指透過鞭打自己施行自我懲罰） Punishment of yourself, especially by hitting your body with a whip, usually done for religious reasons.
Mortified () imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
Mortifiedness (n.) The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions. [R.]
Mortifier (n.) One who, or that which, mortifies.
Mortified (imp. & p. p.) of Mortify.
Mortifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify.
Mortify (v. t.) 使感屈辱；使失面子；使羞愧 [H]；【宗】克制（情慾等），抑制 To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine. -- Bacon.
He mortified pearls in vinegar. -- Hakewill.
Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine. -- Bacon.
He mortified pearls in vinegar. -- Hakewill.
Mortify (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
Mortify (v. i.) 【醫】變成壞疽；禁慾，苦行 To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
This makes him . . . give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify. -- Law.
Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
Mortify (v. ) To cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed and foolish.
Mortify (v. t. ) obsolete : To destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of.
Mortify (v. t. ) To subdue or deaden (as the body or bodily appetites) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort.
Mortify (v. t. ) To subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame.
Mortify (v. i. ) To practice mortification.
Mortify (v. i. ) To become necrotic or gangrenous.
Mortify (v.) [ T ] To make someone very embarrassed.
// The thought of the incident still mortified her.
Mortify (v.) Practice self-denial of one's body and appetites.
Mortify (v.) Hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify].
Mortify (v.) Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase].
Mortify (v.) Undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate].
Mortifying (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
Mortifying (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
Mortifying (a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
Mortifying (a.) Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word" [syn: embarrassing, mortifying].
Mortifying (a.) Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying].
Mortifyingly (adv.) In a mortifying manner.
Mortise (n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
Mortise and tenon (Carp.), Made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively.
Mortise joint, A joint made by a mortise and tenon.
Mortise lock. See under Lock.
Mortise wheel, A cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear, and core gear.
Mortised (imp. & p. p.) of Mortise.
Mortising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortise.
Mortise (v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Mortise (n.) A square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint [syn: mortise, mortice].
Mortise (v.) Cut a hole for a tenon in [syn: mortise, mortice].
Mortise (v.) Join by a tenon and mortise [syn: mortice, mortise].
Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling.
Mortling (n.) Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
Mortmal (n.) See Mormal.
Mortpay (n.) Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
Mortress (n.) Alt. of Mortrew.
Mortrew (n.) A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida.
Funeral home (n.) 殯儀館 An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also {funeral parlor}, {mortuary}, {funeral chapel} and informally, {undertaker's}. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.
Mortuaries (n. pl. ) of Mortuary.
Mortuary (n.) 停屍間；太平間 A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
Mortuary (n.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
Mortuary (n.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
Mortuary (n.) A {funeral home}.
Mortuary (a.) 死的；喪葬的；悲哀的 Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
{Mortuary urn} 骨灰罈 An urn for holding the ashes of a dead person after cremation.
Mortuary (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of death.
Mortuary (a.) Of or relating to a funeral.
Mortuary (n.) A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation [syn: {morgue}, {mortuary}, {dead room}].
Morulae (n. pl. ) of Morula.
Morula (n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Morulation (n.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
Morus (n.) A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.
Morwe (n.) See Morrow.
Morwening (n.) Morning.
Mosaic (n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
Mosaic (n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
Mosaical (a.) Mosaic (in either sense).
Mosaically (adv.) In the manner of a mosaic.
Mosaism (n.) Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.
Mosasaur (n.) Alt. of Mosasaurian.
Mosasaurian (n.) One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
Mosasaurus (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
Moschatel (n.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot.
Moschine (a.) Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.
Mosel (n. & v.) See Muzzle.
Moselle (n.) A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
Mosk (n.) See Mosque.
Moslems (n. pl. ) of Moslem.
Moslem (n. pl. ) of Moslem.
Moslem (n.) A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
Moslem (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Mososaurus (n.) Same as Mosasaurus.
Mosque (n.) 清真寺，回教寺院 [C] A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also {mosk}.]
Mosque (n.) (Islam) A Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret.
Mosque (n.) [ C ] (A2) 清真寺 A building for Islamic religious activities and worship.
Mosquitoes (n. pl. ) of Mosquito.
Mosquito (n.) 蚊子 [C] Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also {musquito}.]
{Mosquito bar}, {Mosquito net}, A net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows.
{Mosquito fleet}, A fleet of small vessels.
{Mosquito hawk} (Zool.), A dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.
{Mosquito netting}, A loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.
Mosquito (n.) Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
Moss (n.) 苔蘚；地衣 [C] [U]；【蘇格蘭】沼澤（尤指泥炭沼澤）[the P] (Bot.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
Note: The term moss is also popularly applied to many other small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss, etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus {Lycopodium}. See {Club moss}, under {Club}, and {Lycopodium}.
Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
Note: Moss is used with participles in the composition of words which need no special explanation; as, moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc.
{Black moss}. See under {Black}, and {Tillandsia}.
{Bog moss}. See {Sphagnum}.
{Feather moss}, any moss branched in a feathery manner, esp. several species of the genus {Hypnum}.
{Florida moss}, {Long moss}, or {Spanish moss}. See {Tillandsia}.
{Iceland moss}, A lichen. See {Iceland Moss}.
{Irish moss}, A seaweed. See {Carrageen}.
{Moss agate} (Min.), A variety of agate, containing brown, black, or green mosslike or dendritic markings, due in part to oxide of manganese. Called also {Mocha stone}.
{Moss animal} (Zool.), A bryozoan.
{Moss berry} (Bot.), the small cranberry ({Vaccinium Oxycoccus}).
{Moss campion} (Bot.), A kind of mosslike catchfly ({Silene acaulis}), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the Arctic circle.
{Moss land}, Land produced accumulation of aquatic plants, forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the water is grained off or retained in its pores.
{Moss pink} (Bot.), A plant of the genus {Phlox} ({Phlox subulata}), growing in patches on dry rocky hills in the Middle United States, and often cultivated for its handsome flowers. -- Gray.
{Moss rose} (Bot.), A variety of rose having a mosslike growth on the stalk and calyx. It is said to be derived from the Provence rose.
{Moss rush} (Bot.), A rush of the genus {Juncus} ({Juncus squarrosus}).
{Scale moss}. See {Hepatica}.
Moss (n.) Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants.
Mossed (imp. & p. p.) of Moss.
Mossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moss.
Moss (v. t.) 以苔覆蓋；使長滿苔蘚 To cover or overgrow with moss.
An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. -- Shak.
Mossback (n.) A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
Mossbanker (n.) Alt. of Mossbunker.
Mossbunker (n.) The menhaded.
Moss-grown (a.) Overgrown with moss.
Mossiness (n.) The state of being mossy.
Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
Mossy (a.) 生苔的；被苔覆蓋的；似苔的，苔狀的 Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Old trees are more mossy far than young. -- Bacon.
Mossy (a.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
Mossy (a.) Overgrown with moss [syn: {moss-grown}, {mossy}].
Mossy (a.) (Used pejoratively) Out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss- grown ideas about family life" [syn: {fogyish}, {moss-grown}, {mossy}, {stick-in-the-mud(p)}, {stodgy}].
Most (a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.
Most (a.) Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.