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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Mōor'ish, a. p. 857Marshy; fenny; watery. “Along the moorish fens.” Thomson. 2. Pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; as, Moorish architecture.Mōor'-lānd, n. p. 857A marsh, or tract of low, watery ground. 2. Land rising into moderate hills, foul, cold, and full of bogs, as in Staffordshire, England.Mōor'-stōne, n. p. 857A species of English granite, used as a coarse building-stone.Mōor'-tit'ling, n. p. 857(Ornith.) A bird of the genus Saxicola (S. rubicola); the stone-chat.Mōor'y, a. p. 857Of, pertaining to, or resembling, moors; marshy; fenny; boggy. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.Mōor'y, n. p. 857A kind of brown cloth made in India. Simmonds.Mōose, n. p. 857(Zool.) An animal of the deer kind, having a short, thick neck, with a mane, a long, horny muffle, and broad, slouching ears. The males have antlers, branched and broadly palmate. The American moose…Mōose'-deer, n. p. 857See MOOSE.Mōose'-wōod, n. p. 857(Bot.) (a.) A tree of the genus Acer (A. Pennsylvanicum), found in the United States;—called also striped maple. (b.) A shrub of the genus Dirca (D. palustris), found in the Northern United States…Mōot, v. t. p. 857To argue for and against; to propose for discussion; to debate; to discuss. This is the most general expression of a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W.…Mōot, v. i. p. 857To argue or plead on a supposed cause.Mōot, a. p. 857Subject to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable.Mōot, n. p. 857A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.Mōot, n. p. 857The same as MOT.Mōot'-cāse, n. p. 857A point, case, or question, to be mooted or debated; a disputable case; an unsettled question. “In this moot-case your judgment to refuse.” Dryden.Mōot'a-ble, a. p. 857Capable of being mooted or debated.Mōot'-cōurt, n. p. 857(Law Schools.) A meeting or court held for the purpose of arguing or trying feigned cases.Mōot'er, n. p. 857A disputer of a mooted case.Mōot'-hall or Mōot'-house, n. p. 857A town hall; hall of judgment. [Obs.] Wycliffe.Mōot'-hill, n. p. 857(O. Eng. Law.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Britons;—called, in Scotland, mute-hill. Burrill.Mōot'man, n. p. 857One who argued moot-cases in the inns of court. Burrill.Mōot'-point, n. p. 857The same as MOOT-CASE.Mŏp, n. p. 858An instrument for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 2. [Prov. Ger. muff, mupf.] A made-up face; a grimace; a…Mŏp, v. t. p. 858To rub or wipe with a mop.Mŏp, v. i. p. 858To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.Mŏp'-bōard, n. p. 858(Carp.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting, or skirting-board.Mōpe, v. i. p. 858To be very stupid; to be dull; to drowse; to be spiritless or gloomy. “Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.” Milton. Or but a sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.Mōpe, v. t. p. 858To make spiritless or stupid; to deprive of liveliness or sense. “A young, low-spirited, moped creature.” Locke.