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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Mōn'ū-mĕnt'al-ly, adv. p. 856By way of memorial. 2. By means of monuments.Mōō, v. i. p. 856To make the noise of a cow; to low;—a child's word.Mōod, n. p. 856Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; grammatical form; manner of action or being. See MODE, the more proper word.Mōod, n. p. 856Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; disposition; as, a melancholy mood; an angry mood; a suppliant mood. With pity calmed, down fell his angry mood.…Mōod'-i-ly, adv. p. 857In a moody manner.Mood'i-ness, n. p. 857The quality of being moody; hence, anger; peevishness.Mōo'dir, n. p. 857The governor of a city, or a large surrounding territory.Mōōd'y, a. p. 857Indulging moods, or varying and capricious frames of mind; humorsome. 2. Hence, out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful;—also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy. “Every peevish, moody malcontent.”…Mōo'lah or Mōo'l'ah, n. p. 857See MOLLAH.Mōon, n. p. 857The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of…Mōon, v. t. p. 857To shine upon;—said of the moon; also, to expose to the rays of the moon. If they would have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned.…Mōon, v. i. p. 857To act as if moon-struck; to wander or gaze idly about. Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.Mōon'beam, n. p. 857A ray of light from the moon.Mōon'-blind, a. p. 857Dim-sighted; purblind.Mōon'-cälf, n. p. 857A monster; false conception. 2. A mole, or mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus. 3. A dolt; a stupid fellow.Mōon'-dī'al, n. p. 857A dial employed to indicate time by moonlight.Mōon'-cŭl'mi-nā'ting, a. p. 857Culminating, or coming to the meridian, at or about the same time with the moon;—said of a star, and particularly of certain stars selected beforehand, and published in an ephemeris (as the Nautical…Mōon'er, n. p. 857One who gazes idly about, as if moon-struck. [Rare.] Dickens.Mōon'et, n. p. 857A little moon. [Rare.]Mōon'-eye, n. p. 857An eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.Mōon'-eyed, a. p. 857Having eyes affected by the moon. 2. Dim-eyed; purblind.Mōon'-fish, n. p. 857A fish whose tail fin is shaped like a half moon.Mōōn'-flow'er, n. p. 857Great white ox-eye; the Chrysanthemum leucanthemum.Mōong, n. p. 857(Bot.) A plant of the genus Phaseolus, a variety of pulse cultivated in India. Simmonds.Mōon'ish, a. p. 857Like the moon; variable.Mōon'-less, a. p. 857Not favored with moonlight.Moon'-light, n. p. 857The light afforded by the moon.Mo͞on'light, a. p. 857Illuminated by the moon; occurring during or by moonlight; as, moonlight revels. Shak.Mo͞on'ling, n. p. 857A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]Mo͞on'-lȯved, a. p. 857Loved when the moon shines. Milton.Mo͞on'-măd'ness, n. p. 857Lunacy.Mōon'-rāk'er, n. p. 857(Naut.) Same as Moon-sail.Mōon'rīse, n. p. 857The appearance of the moon above the horizon; the rising of the moon, or the time of its rising.Moon'-sāil, n. p. 857(Naut.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a sky-sail. Dana.Mōon'-seed, n. p. 857(Bot.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, so called from the crescent-like form of the seeds.Mōon’shee, n. p. 857A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language;—so called in India.Moon'-shine, n. p. 857The light of the moon. 2. Show without substance or reality, as the moon's rays give light, but not heat; stuff; fustian; vanity. 3. A month. [Rare.] Shak.Moon'-shine or Moon'-shin-y, a. p. 857Illuminated by the moon; as, a fair, moonshine night. Clarendon. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.Moon'-stōne, n. p. 857(Min.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, or adularia, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. Dana.Mōōn'-strŭck, a. p. 857Affected by the influence of the moon; lunatic; as, moon-struck madness. Milton. Doomed to die, As moon-struck bards complain, by Love's sad archery. Byron.Mōon'-trē/foil, n. p. 857(Bot.) A leguminous shrub; a species of medic;—called also tree-medic. See MEDIC.Moon'-wort, n. p. 857(Bot.) (a.) An herb of the genus Lunaria; lunary;—called also honesty. (b.) A fern of the genus Botrychium.Mōon'y, a. p. 857Pertaining to, or resembling, the moon. “Soft and pale as the moony beam.” Drake. 2. Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly.…Mōon'-yēar, n. p. 857A lunar year, consisting of thirteen lunar months.Mōōr, n. p. 857An extensive waste covered with heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath; a fen. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.Mōor, n. p. 857A native of the northern coast of Africa, called by the Romans, from the color of the people, Mauritania, the country of dark-complexioned people; also, a native of the countries now called Morocco…Mōor, v. t. p. 857(Naut.) To confine or secure, as a ship, in a particular station, as by cables and anchors, or by chains, or weights beneath the water. 2. To secure, or fix firmly.Mōōr, v. i. p. 857To be confined by cables or chains. On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.Mōor'age, n. p. 857A place for mooring.Mōor'band Pān p. 857An indurated combination of clay, small stones, and iron, situated immediately or at a short distance below the path of the plow, and impervious to water. Farm. Encyc.Mōor'-bŭz'zard, n. p. 857(Ornith.) See DUCK-HAWK.Mōor'-coal, n. p. 857(Geol.) A friable variety of lignite.Mōor'-cŏck, n. p. 857(Ornith.) The red grouse or gor-cock; Tetrao Scotícus of Linnæus.Mōor'ess, n. p. 857A female Moor.Mōor'-fowl, n. p. 857The same as MOOR-COCK.Mōor'-gāme, n. p. 857Grouse; red-game.Mōor'-grāss, n. p. 857A species of grass; the sesleria cærulea.Mōor'-hēn, n. p. 857(Ornith.) The gallinule, or water-hen. See GALLINULE.Mōor'ing, n. p. 857The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors, &c. 2. That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as the anchors, chains, and bridles, laid at the bottom of a river or…Mooring-block p. 857a kind of anchor made of cast iron.