Monumental (a.) Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
Monumental (a.) Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.
Monumentally (adv.) By way of memorial.
Monumentally (adv.) By means of monuments.
Monureid (n.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid.
Moo (adv., & n.) See Mo.
Mooed (imp. & p. p.) of Moo
Mooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo
Moo (v. i.) To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.
Moo (n.) The lowing of a cow.
Mood (n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Mood (n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
Mood (n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Mooder (n.) Mother.
Moodily (adv.) In a moody manner.
Moodiness (n.) The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Moodir (n.) The governor of a province in Egypt, etc.
Moodish (a.) Moody.
Moodishly (adv.) Moodily.
Moody (superl.) Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.
Moolah (n.) Alt. of Moollah
Moollah (n.) See Mollah.
Moolley (n.) Same as Mulley.
Moon (n.) The celestial 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 night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Moon (n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
Mooned (imp. & p. p.) of Moon
Mooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moon
Moon (v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Moonbeam (n.) A ray of light from the moon.
Moonblind (a.) Dim-sighted; purblind.
Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
Mooncalf (n.) A dolt; a stupid fellow.
Moon-culminating (a.) Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
Mooned (a.) Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.
Mooner (n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck.
Moonery (n.) Conduct of one who moons.
Moonet (n.) A little moon.
Moon-eye (n.) A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
Moon-eye (n.) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters.
Moon-eye (n.) The cisco.
Moon-eyed (a.) Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
Moon-faced (a.) Having a round, full face.
Moonfish (n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
Moonfish (n.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
Moonfish (n.) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
Moonflower (n.) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
Moonflower (n.) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
Moong (n.) Same as Mung.
Moonglade (n.) The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.
Moonie (n.) The European goldcrest.
Moonish (a.) Like the moon; variable.
Moonless (a.) Being without a moon or moonlight.
Moonlight (n.) The light of the moon.
Moonlight (a.) Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
Moonling (n.) A simpleton; a lunatic.
Moonlit (a.) Illumined by the moon.
Moonraker (n.) Same as Moonsail.
Moonrise (n.) The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
Moonsail (n.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
Moonshee (n.) A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.
Moonshine (n.) The light of the moon.
Moonshine (n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
Moonshine (n.) A month.
Moonshine (n.) A preparation of eggs for food.
Moonshine (a.) Moonlight.
Moonshiner (n.) A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
Moonshiny (a.) Moonlight.
Moonstone (n.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Moonsticken (a.) See Moonstruck.
Moonstruck (a.) Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
Moonstruck (a.) Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
Moonstruck (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
Moonwort (n.) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.
Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
Moony (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.
Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
Moony (a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.
Moor (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moor
Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moor
Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Moorband (n.) See Moorpan.
Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.