Moravian (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
Moravian (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
Moravianism (n.) The religious system of the Moravians.
Moray (n.) A muraena.
Morbid (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
Morbid (a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Morbidezza (n.) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
Morbidezza (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.
Morbidity (n.) The quality or state of being morbid.
Morbidity (n.) Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
Morbidity (n.) Amount of disease; sick rate.
Morbidly (adv.) In a morbid manner.
Morbidness (n.) The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.
Morbific (a.) Alt. of Morbifical
Morbifical (a.) Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
Morbillous (a.) Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.
Morbose (a.) Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.
Morbosity (n.) A diseased state; unhealthiness.
Morceau (n.) A bit; a morsel.
Mordacious (a.) Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.
Mordacity (n.) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
Mordant (a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Mordant (a.) Serving to fix colors.
Mordant (n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.
Mordant (n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
Mordant (n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
Mordanted (imp. & p. p.) of Mordant
Mordanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mordant
Mordant (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
Mordantly (adv.) In the manner of a mordant.
Mordente (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.
Mordicancy (n.) A biting quality; corrosiveness.
Mordicant (a.) Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body.
Mordication (n.) The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.
Mordicative (a.) Biting; corrosive.
More (n.) A hill.
More (n.) A root.
More (superl.) Greater; superior; increased
More (superl.) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.
More (superl.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
More (superl.) Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.
More (n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
More (n.) That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
More (adv.) In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
More (adv.) With a verb or participle.
More (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
More (adv.) In addition; further; besides; again.
More (v. t.) To make more; to increase.
Moreen (n.) A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
Morel (n.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.
Morel (n.) Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.
Morel (n.) A kind of cherry. See Morello.
Moreland (n.) Moorland.
Morelle (n.) Nightshade. See 2d Morel.
Morello (n.) A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.
Morendo (a. & n.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.
Moreness (n.) Greatness.
Moreover (adv.) Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.
Morepork (n.) The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.
Moresk (a. & n.) Moresque.
Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish.
Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.
Morganatic (a.) Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.
Morgay (n.) The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.
Morglay (n.) A sword.
Morgue (n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Moria (n.) Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.
Morian (n.) A Moor.
Moribund (a.) In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
Moribund (n.) A dying person.
Moric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.
Morice (n.) See Morisco.
Morigerate (a.) Obedient.
Morigeration (n.) Obsequiousness; obedience.
Morigerous (a.) Obedient; obsequious.
Moril (n.) An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.
Morin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid.
Morinda (n.) A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.
Morindin (n.) A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).
Morinel (n.) The dotterel.
Moringa (n.) A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.
Moringic (a.) Designating an organic acid obtained from oil of ben. See Moringa.
Morintannic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.
Morion (n.) A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat.
Morion (n.) A dark variety of smoky quartz.
Morioplasty (n.) The restoration of lost parts of the body.
Morisco (a.) Moresque.
Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.
Morisk (n.) Same as Morisco.
Morkin (n.) A beast that has died of disease or by mischance.
Morland (n.) Moorland.
Morling (n.) Mortling.
Mormal (n.) A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.
Mormo (n.) A bugbear; false terror.
Mormon (n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.
Mormon (n.) The mandrill.
Mormon (n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
Mormon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.
Mormondom (n.) The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.
Mormonism (n.) The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.