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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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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…Mōr'al-īze, v. i. p. 858To speak or write on moral subjects, or to make moral reflections.Mōr'al-īz'er, n. p. 858One who moralizes.Mōr'al-ly, adv. p. 858In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, morally so called, “bonum honestum” ought chiefly to be understood. South. 2. According to moral rules; virtuously; honestly.…Mo-gä'nd, n. p. 858The old Bohemian goddess of winter and death. Brande.Mo-rāss', n. p. 858A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore, bog iron ore.Mo-rāss'y, a. p. 858Marshy; fenny.Mō'rat, n. p. 858A drink made of honey, flavored with the juice of mulberries.Mo-rā'tion, n. p. 858The act of tarrying or delaying; delay. [Obs.]Mo-rā'vi-an, a. p. 858Pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren.Mo-rā'vi-an, n. p. 858(Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren.Mo-rā'vi-an-ism, n. p. 858The religious system of the Moravians.Môr'/bid, a. p. 858Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; as, a morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility. Syn.—Diseased; sickly…Morbidezza, n. p. 858(Paint.) A method of coloring by which the appearance of softness and delicacy peculiar to living flesh is imitated. Fairholt.Mor-bid'i-ty, n. p. 858The quality of being morbid. 2. Morbid quality; disease; sickness. “Unable from some defect of morbidity.” C. Kingsley.Môr′bid-ly, adv. p. 858In a morbid or diseased manner.