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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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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.Mōpe'-eȳed, a. p. 858Short-sighted; purblind.Mōpe'ful, a. p. 858Mopish. [Rare.]Mōp'ish, a. p. 858Dull; spiritless; stupid; dejected.Mōp'ish-ly, adv. p. 858In a mopish manner.Mōp'ish-ness, n. p. 858Dullness; stupidity; dejection.Mŏp'lah, n. p. 858One of the Mohammedan inhabitants of Malabar. Brande.Mŏp'pet, n. p. 858A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.Mŏp'sey, n. p. 858A moppet. 2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.Mŏp'sic-al, a. p. 858Short-sighted; mope-eyed.Mō'pus, n. p. 858A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.Mō'rȧ, n. p. 858A valuable South American wood used for ship-building. Simmonds.Mo-rāine', n. p. 858(Geol.) A line of blocks and gravel extending along the sides of separate glaciers, and along the middle part of glaciers formed by the union of one or more separate ones.Mōr'al, a. p. 858Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be…Mōr'al, n. p. 858The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manners; conduct; behavior;—usually in the plural. “Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.” South. 2. The inner meaning or significance of a…Mōr'al, v. i. p. 858To moralize. [Obs.]Mō-rāle', n. p. 858The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body…Mōr'al-er, n. p. 858A moralizer. [Obs.] Shak.Mōr'al-ist, n. p. 858One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person whose…Mo-răl'ĭ-ty, n. p. 858The relation of conformity or non-conformity to the true moral standard or rule; the quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right…Mōr'al-i-zā'tion, n. p. 858The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense.Mōr'al-īze, v. t. p. 858To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle? Shak. 2. To furnish with…