MONOTONIC key, without inflection or cadence.-2. Monotony or sameness of style in writing or speaking. The sentimental monotone of Macpherson's Ossian.' Prof. Blackie. He speaks of fearful massacres. . . in the same monotone of expression. Sat. Rev. 3. In music, a sound never varied; a single tone or key. Monotonic, Monotonical (mon-ō-ton'ik, mon-o-ton'ik-al), a. Monotonous. [Rare.] We should not be lulled to sleep by the length of a monotonical declamation. Chesterfield. Monotonous (mo-not'on-us), a. Characterized by monotony; continued in the same tone without inflection or cadence; unvaried in tone. 'Monotonous modulation.' T. Warton. Then came silence, then a voice, Monotonous and hollow like a ghost's. Tennyson. Monotonously (mo-not'on-us-li), adv. In a monotonous manner; with one uniform tone; without inflection of voice. Monotonousness (mo-not'on-us-nes), n. The state or quality of being monotonous; monotony; irksomeness or dreary sameness. Monotony (mo-not'on-i), n. [Gr. monotonia -monos, sole, and tonos, sound.] 1. Uniformity of tone or sound; want of inflections of voice in speaking or reading; want of cadence or modulation. 'Multiplying the same final sound to the most tedious monotony.' T. Warton.-2. Uniformity; sameness; want of variety. At sea everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. W. Irving. Monotremata (mon-o-trem'a-ta), n. pl. [Gr. monos, alone, and trema, an aperture, from trao, tetraino, to pierce through.] The lowest sub-class of mammals, having only one common cloacal outlet for the fæces and the products of the urinary and generative organs, in this respect as well as others resembling birds. The jaws have no teeth, at most having horny plates which serve the same purpose. There are no external ears. Two Australian genera, Ornithorhynchus or Platypus and Echidna, constitute this order. The Monotremata constitute the division Ornithodelphia. Monotrematous (mon-o-trem'a-tus), a. Belonging to the Monotremata; characteristic of the Monotremata; as, monotrematous peculiarities. Monotreme (mon'ō-trēm), n. A member of the order Monotremata (which see). Monotriglyph (mon-o-tri'glif), n. [Gr. monos, single, and triglyph.] In arch. the in Monotriglyph.-Roman Doric. mm, Metopes. tt, Triglyphs. tercolumniation of the Doric order which embraces one triglyph and two metopes in the entablature above the space between two columns. Monotropa (mo-not'ro-pa), n. [Gr. monos, alone, and trope, a turning, because the flowers are turned one way.] A genus of plants which gives its name to the nat. order Monotropaces, composed of monopetalous, exogenous, parasitical plants, natives of Europe, Asia, and North America. The only European species is Monotropa Hypopitys, called in England yellow bird's-nest. See BIRD'S-NEST, 2. Monotropace (mon'ō-trō-pā"sē-ē), n. pl. In bot. a natural order of leafless exogenous parasites, of which the genus Monotropa is the type, allied to Ericaceae, but differing from them in habit and technical characters. Monotype, Monotypic (mon'ō-tip, mon-ōtip'ik), a. [Gr. monos, single, and typos, a type.] Having but one type; consisting of a single representative; as, a monotypic genus of animals. Monovalent (mo-nov'a-lent), n. [Gr. monos, alone, single, and L. valens, valentis, ppr. of valeo, to be worth.] In chem. applied to 200 an elementary substance one atom of which enters into combination with a single atom of another elementary substance. Monoxylon (mo-noks'il-on), n. [Gr. monos, one, and xylon, wood.] A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber. Maunder. Monroe-doctrine (mon'ro-dok-trin), n. The doctrine first propounded by President Monroe, that America should abstain from intermeddling with the broils of the Old World, while it would not suffer the Old World to interfere with the affairs of the New, declaring that any attempt on the part of the powers of the eastern hemisphere to extend their system to the western would be dangerous to the peace and safety of the latter. Monseigneur (mon-sen-yer), n. pl. Messeigneurs (ma-sen-yer). [Fr.-mon, my, and seigneur, lord, from L. senior, older. See SENIOR.] A French title of honour given to princes, bishops, and other high dignitaries. Before the revolution the Dauphin of France was styled Monseigneur, without any addition. Monsieur (mo'syė), n. pl. Messieurs (messyé). [Fr., contr. of monseigneur (which see).] 1. A title given to the eldest brother of the King of France.-2. The common title of courtesy and respect in France, answering to the English Sir and Mr.; abbreviated Mons., M.; plural Messrs., MM.-3. A term applied, often in contempt, by an Englishman to a Frenchman. There is a Frenchman his companion, one Monsoon (mon-sön'), n. [Fr. monson, monçon, mousson, Sp. monzon, Pg. mousão, from Ar. mausim, a time, a season, the favourable season for sailing to India.] 1. The name given to a certain modification or disturbance of the regular course of the trade-winds which takes place in the Arabian and Indian seas. Between the parallels of 10° and 30° south latitude the eastern trade-wind blows regularly, but from the former parallel northwards the course is reversed for half the year, and from April to October the wind blows constantly from the south-west. During the other six months of the year the regular north-east trade-wind prevails. In some places the change of the monsoons is attended with calms; in others, with variable winds, and in others, as in China, with tempests. These tempests seamen call the breaking up of the monsoons.-2. An alternating wind in any region. See extract. The word monsoon is now used for alternating winds in other regions; and as this custom is becoming popular, it would, perhaps, be well to use the terni, in books on Physical Geography, for any winds at any locality whose direction shifts with the seasons, and which divide the year, however unequally, between them. Using the term, then, in this wider sense, we have monsoons in the China seas, in the Mexican Gulf, on the coasts of Africa, and South America. Prof. Young. 3. A kind of race-horse, descended from a particular horse of this name. He's a monsoon, I'm sure. They've all those ears, and that peculiar dip in the back, Trollope. Monster (mon'ster), n. [Fr. monstre, from L. monstrum, any occurrence out of the ordinary course of nature supposed to indicate the will of the gods, a marvel, a monster, from moneo, to admonish, to warn.] 1. t Anything extraordinary, supernatural, or wonderful; a thing to be gazed or wondered at; a marvel; a prodigy. For wend I never by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or mervaille might be. 2. An unnatural production; an abnormal development; a plant or animal departing from the usual type. In organized beings the deviation consists sometimes in an unusual number of one or several organs; sometimes, on the contrary, in a deficiency of parts; sometimes in a malformation of the whole or some portion of the system; and sometimes in the presence of organs or parts not ordinarily belonging to the sex or species.-3. Something looked upon with horror on account of extraordinary crimes, deform ity, or power to do harm. A monster vile, whom God and man does hate.' Spenser. He cannot be such a monster. Shak. 4. A chimerical figure such as sundry of those common on coats of arms; as, the sagittary, sphinx, mermaid, &c., which are compounded of the human and bestial shape; the dragon, griffin, wyvern, cockatrice, &c. Monster (mon'ster), a. [See the noun.] Of inordinate size or numbers; as, a monster meeting; a monster gun. This exhibition a university ought to supply; and at the same time, as a necessary concomitant, a competent monstrator. Sir W. Hamilton. Monstricide (mon'stri-sid), n. The slaughter of a monster. [Used only by Thackeray, and in joke.] If Perseus had cut the latter's cruel head off, he would have committed not unjustifiable monstricide. Thackeray. Monstriferous (mon-strif'èr-us), a. ProMonstrosity (mon-stros'i-ti), n. The state ducing monsters. Sir W. Scott. of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature, or what is monstrous; an unnatural production. "The monstrosities both of animals and of vegetables.' Buckle. We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast. South. Monstrous (mon'strus), a. [L. monstrosus. See MONSTER.] 1. Unnatural in form; deviating greatly from the natural form; out of the common course of nature; as, a monstrous birth or production. Nature there perverse, Brought forth all monstrous, all prodigious things. Milton. 2. Enormous; huge; extraordinary. No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear. Pope. 3. Shocking; hateful; frightful; horrible. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. Shak. 4. Full of monsters or strange creatures. Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide, Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton. Monstrous (mon'strus), adv. Exceedingly; very much; as, monstrous difficult. A monstrous little voice.' Shak. 'A monstrous thick oil.' Bacon. [Now vulgar or colloquial.] Add that the rich have still a jibe in store, And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryden. Monstrously (mon'strus-li), adv. 1. In a monstrous manner: (a) in a manner out of the common order of nature; hence, shockingly; terribly; hideously; horribly; as, a man monstrously wicked. (b) To a great degree; enormously; extravagantly. Who with his wife is monstrously in love.' Dryden. Monstrousness (mon'strus-nes), n. The state or quality of being monstrous; enormity. The monstrousness of man.' Shak. Monstruosity+ (mon-strö-os'i-ti), n. Monstrosity. Shak. Monstruoust (mon'strö-us), a. Monstrous. Monstruousness t (mon'strö-us-nes), n. Monstrousness. Ascham. Montagnard (mon-tan-yär), n. [Fr., from montagne, a mountain.] 1. A mountaineer. 2. A name given at different periods to one of the extreme democratic party in France. See The Mountain under MOUNTAIN. Montanic (mon-tan'ik), a. [L. montanus, from mons, mountain.] Pertaining to mountains; consisting in mountains. Smart. MONTANISM Montanism (mon'tan-izm), 1. The tenets of Montanus or his followers. Montanist (mon'tan-ist), n. A follower of the heresiarch Montanus, a Phrygian by birth, who pretended he was inspired by the Holy Spirit and instructed in several points not revealed to the apostles. His sect sprang up in the second century. Montanistic, Montanistical (mon-tan-ist'ik, mon-tan-ist'ik-al), a. Pertaining to the heresy of Montanus. Montanize (mon'tan-iz), v.i. To follow the opinions of Montanus. [Fr., Montant, Montanto (mont'ant, mon-tan'to), n. [Fr., from monter, to mount.] 1. In fencing, an upright blow or thrust. Thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.' Shak. 'Your imbrocata, your passada, your montanto.' B. Jonson. -2. In joinery, the intermediate vertical part of a piece of framing which is tenoned with the rails. Mont-de-piété (mon-de-pe-a-tā), n. lit. mountain of piety, from It. monte di pieta] The name given to a class of establishments for advancing money to the poor at a reasonable rate of interest. They originated in Italy under the patronage of the papal government in the fifteenth century, and the object in founding them was to countervail the exorbitantly usurious practices of the Jews. The institution has spread to other countries, as France and Spain. Monte (mon'tā), n. [Sp., the stock of cards which remain after each player has received his share, from L. mons, a mountain.] A Spanish gambling game played with dice or cards. Montem (mon'tem), n. The name given to an ancient English custom, till 1847 prevalent among the scholars of Eton, which consisted in their proceeding every third year on Whit-Tuesday to a tumulus (L. ad montem, whence the name) near the Bath road, and exacting money for salt, as it was called, from all persons present, or passersby. The sum so collected was given to the captain, or senior scholar, and was intended to assist in defraying the expenses of his residence at the university. The 'salt money' has been known to approach nearly £1000. Montepulciano (mōn-tā-pöl-chäʼnō), n. A His hat was like a helmet or Spanish montero. The montero-cap was scarlet, of a superfine Spanish cloth, dyed in grain, and mounted all round with fur, except about four inches in the front, which was faced with a light blue slightly embroidered. Sterne. Montezuma (mon-ta-zö'ma), n. [After a sovereign of Mexico.] A genus of Mexican evergreen trees belonging to the nat. order Sterculiaceae, remarkable for their showy red flowers. Montgolfier (moh-gol-fyă or mont-gol'fi-ér), n. [From the inventor's name.] A balloon filled with atmospheric air dilated by heat. -Montgolfier-ram, a hydraulic ram by which the fall of a column of water is caused to elevate a portion of itself to a height greater than that of its source. Month (munth), n. [O.E. moneth, A. Sax. monath, monoth, month, from móna, the moon. See MOON, and comp. Icel. mánathr, Dan. maaned, D. maand, G. monath, which are similarly derived.] 1. One of the twelve parts of the calendar year; a period of time nearly corresponding in length to one revolution of the moon round the earth; called distinctively a calendar month. The calendar months consist unequally of 30 or 31 days, except February, which consists of 28, and in 201 leap-year of 29 days.-2. The period between change and change of the moon, reckoned as twenty-eight days; a lunar month. (See below, Synodical or proper lunar month.) Until the passing of the act 13 and 14 Vict. xxi. this was the sense in which the word was understood in all acts of parliament, unless a calendar month was specified, and in common law and equity 'month' is still taken as meaning a period of twenty-eight days. In ecclesiastical matters a calendar month is always understood. Month originally signified the time of one revolution of the moon, but the moon's period may be determined in relation to several celestial objects; hence there are several lunar periods known by distinctive names, viz.-Anomalistic month, a revolution of the moon from perigee to perigee; average length 27 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes, 37 4 seconds.-Nodical month, a revolution from ascending node to ascending node; average length 27 days, 5 hours, 5 minutes, 36 seconds.-Sidereal month, the interval between two successive conjunctions of the moon with the same fixed star; average length 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11:5 seconds.-Synodical, or proper lunar month, the time that elapses between new moon and new moon; average length 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 29 seconds. -Tropical or periodic month, the period reckoned from the moon's passing the equinox till her return to the same point; average length 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 47 seconds. —— 3. The space of time in which the sun passes through one sign, or a twelfth part of the zodiac: called distinctively a solar month. This period contains 30 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, 5 seconds. Monthling (munth'ling), n. That which last for a month, or is a month old. Yet hail to thee, Wordsworth. Frail, feeble monthling. Monthly (munth'li), a. 1. Continued a month or performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.-2. Done or happening once a month, or every month; as, a monthly meeting; a monthly visit. Monthly (munth'li), adv. 1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.-2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. T. Middleton. Monthly (munth'li), n. A magazine or other literary periodical, published once a month. Monthly-nurse (munth'li-nėrs), n. A sick nurse who makes engagements for a limited period. Month's-mind (munths'mind),n. 1. Earnest desire; strong inclination. Probably from a woman's longing in pregnancy, which usually commences in the first month of gestation Shak. For if a trumpet sound or drum beat, 2. A celebration in remembrance of a deceased person held a month after the de cease. Keeping his month's-mind and his obsequies With solemn intercession for his soul. Old play. Montia (mon'ti-a), n. [In honour of Joseph Monti, a professor of botany.] A genus of plants, nat. order Portulacaceae. M. fontana (the water blinks) is a minute succulent plant with very small white flowers, growing in wet gravelly places in Britain and throughout Europe, often forming dense tufts. Monticle (mon'ti-kl), n. [L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, a mountain.] A little mount; a hillock: sometimes written monticule. Bailey. Monticulate, Monticulous (mon-tik'ū-lāt, mon-tik'u-lus), a. Having little projections or hills. Smart. Monticule (mon'ti-kül), n. See MONTICLE. Montigenous (mon-tij'en-us), a. [L. mons, montis, a mountain, and gigno, genui, to beget.] Produced on a mountain. [Rare.] Montmartrite (mon-mär'trit), n. A mineral of a yellowish colour, occurring massive, and found at Montmartre, near Paris. It is soft, but resists the weather. It is a compound of the sulphate and carbonate of lime. Montoir (mon-twar), n. [Fr., from monter, to mount.] In the manege, a horseblock; a stone used for aiding to mount a horse. Monton (mon'ton), n. [Sp.] A miner's name for a heap of ore; a quantity of ore under the process of amalgamation. Montross (mon'tros), n. An under-gunner or assistant to a gunner, engineer, or firemaster; a matross. See MATROSS. MOODINESS Monture (mon'tür), n. [Fr., a saddle-horse, a setting or mounting, from monter, to mount.] 1. A saddle-horse. And forward spurred his monture fierce withall, Within his arms longing his foe to strain. Fairfax. 2. A setting, mounting, frame, or the like. Monument (mon'u-ment), n. [L. monumentum, from moneo, to remind, to warn.] 1. Anything by which the memory of a person, period, or event is preserved or per"Our bruised arms petuated; a memorial. hung up for monuments.' Shak. Collect the best monuments of our friends, their own images in their writings. Pope. 2. Especially something built or erected in memory of events, actions, or persons. To fill with worm-holes stately monuments.' Shak. (I would) pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Milton. 3. A burial-vault; a tomb. "Which like a taper in some monument, doth shine upon the dead man's swarthy cheeks.' Shak. Make the bridal-bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. Shak. 4. Any enduring evidence or example; a singular or notable instance. And was it not worthy his being hated of his brethren, and being sold out of his country, to give such a noble example of fidelity and chastity, as to stand a monument of it in holy writ for the admiration and imitation of all following ages? South. Monumental (mon-u-ment'al), a. 1. Pertaining to or connected with a monument or monuments; as, a monumental inscription. 2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory; as, a monumental pillar. 3. Having the character of or resembling a monument. 'Shadows brown that Sylvan loves, of pine or monumental oak.' Milton. 4.† Belonging to a tomb. Monumentally (mon-u-mental-li), adv. 1. By way of memorial; as, the pillar was erected monumentally. -2. By means of monuments. Mony (mon'i), a. Many. [Scotch.] Moo (mö), v.i. To make the noise of a cow; to low: imitated from the sound. [A child's word.] Moo (mö), n. lowing. Mood (möd), n. [Fr. mode, L. modus. See MODE, which is simply this word in a different form.] 1. In gram. the designation, by the form of the verb, of the manner of our conception of an event, or fact, whether as certain, contingent, possible, desirable, or the like. The moods of the English verb are the indicative, potential, subjunctive, imperative, and infinitive. See these terms. 2. În logic, the form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, and their quality, as affirmative or negative. - Mood of a categorical syllogism, in logic, the designation of its three propositions in the order in which they stand according to their quantity and quality.-3. In music, see MODE. The noise of a cow; act of Mood (möd), n. [A. Sax. môd, mind, passion, disposition, mood; cog. O.Fris. O. Sax. mod, Goth. môds, Icel. módr (môthr), Dan. and Sw. mod, D. moed, G. muth, mood, spirit, passion, courage, &c.; root-meaning doubtful.] 1. Temper of mind; state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; disposition; humour; as, a melancholy mood; an angry mood; a suppliant mood. Eyes unused to the melting mood.' Shak. 'Fortune in her shift and change of mood.' Shak. I govern'd men by change, and so I sway'd All moods. Tennyson. 2. Anger; heat of temper. Till at the last aslaked was his mood. Chaucer. Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart. Shak.-3. A moody, morbid, or fantastic state of mind, as a fit of bad temper, sudden anger, sullenness, absence of mind, or the like generally used in the plural, and preceded by a possessive pronoun. Then turn'd Sir Torre, and being in his moods, Left them, and under the strange-statued gate, Where Arthur's wars were render'd mystically, Past up the still rich city to his kin. Tennyson. Moodily (möd'i-li), adv. In a moody manner; peevishly; sullenly; sadly. Moodiness (möd'i-nes), n. The state or quality of being moody; peevishness; sullenness. MOODIR Moodir (mö’'dēr), n. The Turkish name for the governor of a city or district. Also written Mudir. Moodirieh (mö-dēr-ē ́ā), n. A district governed by a moodir. Written also Mudirich. Moody (möd'i), a. [A. Sax. modig, angry. See MOOD, temper.] 1. Subject to or indulging in moods or humours. Moody madness laughing wild Gray. 2. Corresponding or adapted to moods or varying states of mind. [Rare.] 202 Moon (mön), v.i. To wander or gaze idly or moodily about, as if moon-struck. [Colloq.] Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. Kingsley. Moon-beam (mönʼbēm), n. A ray of light from the moon. 'To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.' Shak. Moon-blasted (mön'blast-ed), a. Blasted by the influence, or supposed influence, of the moon. Moon-blind (mön'blind), a. Dim-sighted; purblind. Sir W. Scott. Moon-blink (mön'blingk), n. Shak. Give me some music-music, moody food 3. Angry; peevish; fretful; out of humour: gloomy; sullen; melancholy. 'Moody and dull melancholy.' Shak. Your moody discontented souls.' Shak. Moody-mad† (möd'i-mad), a. Mad with anger. Moody-mad and desperate stags.' Shak. Moolah, Moollah (myl'a), n. Same as Mollah Mools, Mouls (mölż), n. [A form of mould.] Pulverized earth; the earth of the grave; the dust of the dead; the grave. [Scotch.] Moon (mön), n. [A. Sax. môna, the moon (masc.); cog. O. Fris. móna, Goth. ména, Icel. máni, Dan. maane, D. maan, O.H.G. mano (the Mod. G. mond, moon, is a derivative like E. month), Lith. menu, Gr. mënë, Per. ma, Skr. más, all meaning the moon; from a root mâ, to measure: the moon was early adopted as a measurer of time, hence the name.] 1. The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The moon, after the sun, is not only the most conspicuous, but in an astronomical point of view the most interesting of the heavenly bodies. The variety of her phases, her eclipses, and the rapidity with which she changes her place among the fixed stars, drew the attention of the earliest observers of the heavens; while in modern times the important application of the theory of her motions to navigation, and the determination of terrestrial longitudes, has given the lunar theory the first rank among the objects of astronomical science. Among all the heavenly bodies the moon is the nearest to us. The mean distance of its centre from that of the earth is 59 96 of the earth's equatorial radii, or about 237,000 miles; its diameter is 2160 miles, and its magnitude about th of that of the earth; it completes its revolution round the earth, or makes the tour of the heavens, in a mean or average period of 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 115 seconds, which constitutes the sidereal month. (See MONTH.) The motion of the moon round the earth is subject to great inequalities, arising from the sun's attraction, combined with the different positions of the moon in regard to the earth and sun; it revolves on its own axis in the same time that it takes to revolve round the earth, as appears from its always presenting the same side to the earth. The face of the moon appears to the naked eye diversified by dark and bright patches, which on being examined with a good telescope are discovered to be mountains and valleys, the mountains appearing to be of a volcanic character. The moon has no clouds nor any other indication of an atmosphere.-2. A satellite of any planet; as, the moons of Jupiter.3. The period of a revolution of the moon round the earth; a month. "This roaring moon of daffodil and crocus.' Tennyson. [Now confined to poetry.] One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery. Shak 4. Something in the shape of a moon or crescent; as, in fort. a crescent-shaped outwork; a half-moon. - --Moon in distance, a nautical phrase used when the angle be tween the moon and the sun or a star admits of measurement for lunar observation. -Beyond the moon, beyond reach; extravagantly; out of depth. Whither art thou rapt, Beyond the moon that strivest thus to strain? Drayton. Moon (mön), v.t. 1. To adorn with a moon or moons; to furnish with crescents or moonshaped marks. With his mooned train the strutting peacock.' Drayton. [Poetical]2. To expose to the rays of the moon. If they would have it to be exceeding white indeed they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus Holland. sunned and mooned. A temporary evening blindness occasioned by sleeping in the moonshine in tropical climates. Moon-calf (mon'käf), n. [Comp. G. mondkalb, a moon-calf, a dolt, a false conception -a person or conception influenced by the moon.] 1. A monster; a deformed creature. 'The sotted moon-calf gapes.' Dryden.-2. A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus; a false conception.-3. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Moon-culminating (mön'kul-min-at-ing), a. In astron, an epithet for those stars which pass the meridian soon before or after the moon. Moon-dial (mön'di-al), n. A dial to show the hours by the moon. Mooned (mönd), a. 1. Having the moon as symbol; identified with the moon. Mooned Ashtaroth.' Milton.-2. Furnished with a moon; bearing the Turkish symbol of the crescent. Upon the mooned domes aloof.' Tennyson.-3. Resembling the moon; crescent-shaped. While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turned fiery red, sharpening into mooned horns Their phalanx. Milton. One who moons: one Mooner (mön'èr), n. who wanders or gazes idly or moodily about, Dickens. [Colloq.] as if moonstruck. Moonet (mön’et), n. A little moon; a satellite. The moonets about Saturn and Jupiter.' Bp. Hall. Mooney (mön'i), a. Mooney (mön'i), n. [Colloq.] Same as Moony. Moon-eye (mön'î), n. 1. An eye affected by Moonfern (mön’férn), n. Same as Moon wort. Moon-fish (mön'fish), n. A fish of a silver colour found in the Antilles, whose tail is shaped like a half-moon; Ephippus gigas. Moonflaw (mön'fla), n. A flaw or defect caused by the moon; an attack of lunacy. I fear she has a moonflaw in her brains; She chides and fights that none can look upon her. Brome. Moon-flower (mön'flou-ér), n. A plant, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, the ox-eye daisy: so called from its appearance. (See CHRYSANTHEMUM.) The name is also applied to one or two plants blossoming at night, especially to Ipomoea bona-nox, a conMoong (möng),n. In the East Indies, a name volvulaceous plant of the East Indies. given to some varieties of Phaseolus Mungo, a species of kidney-bean. Same as Mungoose. Moongus (mon'gus), n. Moonish (mon'ish), a. Like the moon; variable, as the moon; fickle; flighty. Shak. At which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate,changeable, longing, and liking. Moonja, Moonjah (mon'ja), n. A grass (Saccharum moonja) indigenous to India, possessing great tenacity, and twisted into tow-ropes, rigging, &c., by native boatmen. Moonless (mon'les), a. Destitute of a moon; without moonlight. Moonlight (mön'lit), n. by the moon. The light afforded Moonlight (mön'lit), a. Pertaining to moonlight; illuminated by the moon; occurring during or by moonlight. Our moonlight revels.' Shak. Alone and gazing on the moonlight sea.' Southey. Moonling (mön'ling), n. A simpleton; a fool; a lunatic. I have a husband, and a two-legged one, But such a moonling, as no wit of man, Or roses, can redeem from being an ass. B. Jonson. Moon-lit (mön'lit), a. Lit or illuminated by the moon. "The moonlit sea.' Moore. Narrow moon-lit slips of silver cloud. Tennyson. Moonrise (mön'rīz), n. The rise or first appearance of the moon above the horizon. The serene moonrise of a summer night." John Morley. Moon-sail (mön'sal), n. A sail rigged above a sky-sail, which is usually the upper sail in a ship. Called also Moon-raker. Moon-seed (mön'sed), n. A plant, Menispermum canadense, so named from the crescent-like form of its seed. It is found in the United States of America, and being a climbing shrub is commonly planted for covering bowers. See MENISPERMACEÆ. Moonset (mön'set), n. [Formed on analogy of sunset.] The setting of the moon. Browning. [Rare.] Moon-shaped (mön'shāpt), a. Shaped like the moon; crescent-shaped. Moonshee (mön'shë), n. [Arab. munshi.] In Hindostan, an interpreter; a teacher of languages. Naut. ap Moon-sheered (mön'sherd), a. plied to a ship the upper works of which rise very high fore and aft. Moonshine (mon'shin), n. 1. The light of the moon.-2. Fig. show without substance or reality; pretence; empty show; fiction. Hence such phrases as a matter of moonshine, a matter of no consequence or of indifference.-3. A month. [Burlesque and rare.] I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Shak 4. Smuggled spirits. Admiral Smyth.—5. † A dish of poached eggs and sauce. Could I those whitely stars go nigh, Howell. I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you. Shak. Moonshine, Moonshiny (mön’shin, mön'shin-i), a. Illuminated by the moon; as, a fair moonshine night. You moonshine revellers.' Shak. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison. Moonsiff (mön'sif), n. An East Indian name for a native justice or judge. Moonstone (mön'stōn), n. A variety of adularia worked by lapidaries. By reflected light it presents a pearly play of colour not unlike that of the moon. It occurs massive, and also in crystals, in fissures of granite, gneiss, &c. The finest specimens come from Ceylon. Moonstruck, Moonstricken (mön'struk, mön'strik-n), a. Affected by the influence of the moon; lunatic. 'Moonstruck madness.' Milton. too far. A moonstruck silly lad that lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day. Byron. Happily the moonstricken prince had gone a step Brougham. Moon-trefoil (mön'trē-foil), n. A plant, Medicago arborea,an evergreen shrub, native of Italy, but long introduced into our gardens. See MEDICAGO. Moonwort (mön'wêrt), n. A plant, Botrychium lunaria. See BOTRYCHIUM. 1. Pertaining Moony, Mooney (mön'i), a. to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam.' N. Drake.-2. Like a moon; moonshaped or crescent-shaped.-3. Bearing or furnished with a crescent as an emblem, badge, or standard; having the crescent as a standard. The moony standards of proud Ottoman.' Sylvester, Du Bartas. Encountering fierce The Solymean sultan, he o'erthrew 4. Intoxicated; tipsy. Household Words. [Colloq.]-5. Bewildered or silly, as if moonstruck; hazy. What a mooney grandmother you are, after all. Dickens. Moon-year (mön'yēr), n. A lunar year, the time required for twelve revolutions of the moon, which is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 37 seconds, according to Lalande. Moop (möp), v.i. [A non-nasalized form of mump.] To nibble; to mump. Burns. [Scotch.] MOOR Moor (mör), n. [A. Sax. môr, waste land, a moor, a fen, a hill or any heath-clad track; Icel. mór, a moor, a heath; D. moer, a morass; Dan. mor, a moor, a marsh; G. moor, a marsh, a fen, a moor: from the same root as marsh, mere, mire-morass being a derivative.] 1. A tract of land overrun with heath, the soil of which consists of poor light earth, or is marshy or peaty, or otherwise barren. 2. A tract of land on which game is strictly preserved for the purposes of sport. Moor (mör), n. [D. moor, Fr. maure, G. mohr, from L. maurus, Gr. mauros, a moor, probably from Gr. mauros, black or darkcoloured.] A native of the northern coast of Africa, called by the Romans Mauretania, the country of dark-complexioned people. The same country is now called Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, &c. Moor (mor), v.t. [From D. marren, maaren, maren, to tie, to moor; the same word as E. mar, A. Sax. merran, amerran, to hinder, to mar, O.H.G. marrjan, to stop, to hinder, to mar.] 1. To confine or secure (a ship) in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by chains.-2. To secure; to fix firmly. Moor (mör), v.i. To be confined by cables or chains. [Rare.] Dryden. On cozy ground his galleys moor. Moor (mör), n. An officer in the Isle of Man who summons the courts for the several districts or sheadings. Wharton. Moorage (möraj), n. A place for mooring. Moor-ball (mor' bal), n. The common name for the curious sponge-like balls found at the bottom of fresh-water lakes, and consisting of plants of an alga, the systematic name of which is Conferva Egagrapila. The plant consists of a mass of branched, articulated, green threads, resembling the hair-balls sometimes found in the stomach of ruminants. Moor-bred (mör'bred), a. Produced on moors. Drayton. Moor-buzzard (mör'buz-erd), n. See MARSH-HARRIER. Moorcha (mör'cha), n. term for a battery. An East Indian Abdoola Khan is in charge of a moorcha. W. H. Russell. Moor-coal (mörkōl), n. In geol. a friable variety of lignite. Moorcock, Moorfowl (mörkok, mör foul), n. The red-grouse (Lagopus scoticus). See GROUSE. The female is called the moorhen. Mooress (mör' es), n. A female Moor. Campbell. Moor-game (mörgām), n. Grouse; red game. It Moor-grass (mör'gras), n. A British plant of the genus Sesleria, the S. cærulea. grows on mountains in Scotland and the north of England. Moorhen (mör'hen), n. The common English name for the gallinule or waterhen, the Gallinula chloropus, as also for the female of the red-grouse or Lagopus scoticus. Moor-ill, Muir-ill (mör'il), n. A disease to which cattle are subject. Called also Redwater (which see). [Scotch.] Mooring (mör'ing), n. Naut. (a) the act of securing a ship or boat to a particular place by means of anchors, &c. (b) That by which a ship is confined or secured, as the anchors, chains, and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbour; also, a sailor's bend for a hawser or cable to a post or ring. (c) pl. The place where a ship is secured; as, she lay at her moorings. Mooring-block (mör'ing-blok), n. A sort Mooring-block. of cast-iron anchor used in some of the royal ports for riding ships by. Mooring-pall, Mooring-post (mör'ingpal, mor'ing-post), n. A strong upright post of wood, stone, or iron fixed firmly into the ground for securing vessels to a 203 landing-place by hawsers or chains; also, a strong piece of timber or iron inserted into the deck of ships for fastening the moorings when alongside a quay. Moorish (mör'ish), a. Moory; having the character of a moor. Along the moorish fens.' Thomson. Moorish (mör'ish), a. Pertaining to the Moors or Saracens.-Moorish or Moresque architecture, a style of architecture which the Moors of Spain and other Mohamme Moorish Doorway, Cordova. dan nations have employed in mosques and other public edifices. Called also Saracenic or Arabian Architecture. Its distinguishing features are the prevailing use of the arch of a horse-shoe shape, lofty, elongated cupolas, and a profusion of elaborate surface decoration. The horse-shoe arch embraces more than a semicircle, and is there Moorish Wall Decoration, Alhambra. fore narrower at the springing than above, as shown in the doorway here figured. Similar arches, pointed at top, are also common, as well as trefoil, cinque-foil, and other forms of arches. The columns from which the arches spring are slender, sometimes in pairs, and the superincumbent masses broad and heavy. The profuse decoration of interior surfaces with richly coloured arabesques and geometrical designs is another distinctive feature of this style of architecture. Mosaics of, glazed tiles, such as that shown in the accompanying cut, are frequently employed to decorate walls, the star being one of the simple forms often adopted to form the basis of the design. Many interesting examples of this style of architecture remain at various places in Spain, the finest of all being the Alhambra at Granada. Moorland (mörland), n. A waste, barren district; a moor. Brockett. Moorpan, Moorband (mor'pan, mör band), 1. A term signifying the hard clayey layer-frequently ferruginous-found at the depth of 10 or 12 inches in mossy districts, and the formation of which may perhaps be attributed to the land being always full of water to that mark, the influence of evaporation and of vegetation extending no deeper. MOP Moorstone (mör'ston), n. A species of granite found in Cornwall and some other parts of England, and very serviceable in the coarser parts of a building. Moor-titling (mör'tit-ling), n. The bird known more commonly as the stone-chat. Mooruk (mör'uk), n. The native name for a rare cassowary (Casuarius Bennettii) that was discovered in 1856 by Captain Devlin in the island of New Britain. It is easily tamed. Moory (mör'i), a. Moorish; marshy; fenny; boggy; watery. As when thick mists arise from moory vales.' Fairfax. Moory (mör'i), n. A brown cloth made in India. Simmonds. Moose (mös), n. [A native Indian name.] An animal of the genus Cervus, C. Alces (or Alces Malchis), and the largest of the deer kind, growing sometimes to the height of 17 hands, and weighing 1200 lbs. This animal has palmated horns, with a short thick neck, and an upright mane of a light brown colour. The eyes are small, the ears a foot long, very broad and slouching; the upper lip is square, hangs over the lower one, and has a deep furrow in the middle so as to appear bifid. This animal inhabits the colder parts of North America as well as the corresponding latitudes of Europe and Asia, the European variety being known as the elk. See ELK. Moose-deer (mös'der), n. Same as Moose. Moose-wood (mös'wud), n. 1. A tree of the genus Acer (A. striatum) found in the United States, and sometimes called Striped Maple. 2. A shrub of the genus Dirca (D. palustris) found in the northern United States. Called also Leather-wood. Moostabid (mös'ta-bid), n. A high-priest or chief mollah among the Persians. Moot (möt), v. t. [A. Sax. môtian, to meet for deliberation, to treat, to discuss, to dispute, from mót, a meeting, an assembly, and that from metan, to meet. See MEET.] 1. To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. This is the most general expression of a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W. Hamilton. Specifically-2. In law, to plead or debate merely by way of exercise, as was commonly done in the inns of court at appointed times. Wharton. Moot (möt), v.i. To argue or plead on a supposed cause. He talks statutes as fiercely as if he had mooted seven years in the inns of court. Bp. Earle. Moot (möt), n. Dispute; debate; discussion; specifically, in law, a debate on a hypothetical case by way of practice. Orators have their declamations; lawyers have their moots. Bacon. Moot (möt), a. Relating to or connected with debatable questions; subject to discussion; discussed or debated; as, a moot question. This moot case.' Dryden. Mootable (möt'a-bl), a. Capable of being mooted. Sir T. Browne. Moot-case (möt'kās), n. A point, case, or question to be mooted or debated. MOOT, a. Moot-court (möt kōrt), n. See In law schools, a meeting or court held for the purpose of discussing points of law or arguing and deciding fictitious cases. Mooted, Moulted (möt'ed, molt'ed), p. and a. In her, a term sometimes used in the same sense as eradicated, or torn up by the roots. Mooter (möt'ér), n. One who moots; a disputer of a moot-case. Todd. Moot-hall + (möt'hal), n. A hall of meeting; a hall of debate; a hall of judgment. In the moot-halls, formerly connected with inns of court, imaginary or moot-cases were argued by the students at law. Then they led Jesus to Caiaphas, into the moothall, and it was early. Wickliffe, Jn. xviii. 28. Moot-hill (möt'hil), n. A hill of meeting on which our Saxon ancestors held their great courts. Moot-house (möt'hous), n. Same as Moothall. Moot-man (möt'man), n. One of those who used to argue a hypothetical case in the inns of court. Moot-point (möt'point), n. A point debated or liable to be debated. Whether this young gentleman combined with the miserly vice of an old one any of the open-handed vices of a young one was a moot point. Dickens. Mop (mop), n. [A Celtic word: W. mop, mopa, a mop; Gael. mab, mob, a tuft, tassel, mop; allied to L. mappa, a towel.] 1. A piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums or MOP coarse yarn fastened to a long handle and used for cleaning floors, windows, carriages, &c.-2. The young of any animal. [Provincial.]-3. A young girl; a moppet.-4. A fair where servants are hired. See extract, which gives a plausible explanation of the name. Some few days after the statute fair a second, called a mop, is held for the benefit of those not already hired. This fair mops or wipes up the refuse of the statute fair, carrying away the dregs of the Brewer. servants left. Mop (mop), v.t. pret. & pp. mopped; ppr. mopping. To rub or wipe with a mop. Mop (mop), n. [Comp. D. moppen, to pout, to make a sulky face.] A wry mouth; a grimace. What mops and mowes it makes! heigh, how it frisketh! Beau. & Fl Mop (mop), v.i. To make a wry mouth. Mark but his countenance; see how he mops and how he mows, and how he strains his looks. Mop-board (mop'bōrd), n. board or skirting of a room. BOARD. Barnaby Rich. The washSee WASH Mopish (mop'ish), a. Dull; spiritless; stupid; dejected. A sort of mopish and unsociable creatures. Killingbeck. Mopishly (mõp'ish-li), adv. In a mopish manner. Mopishly stupid.' Bp. Hall. Mopishness (mōp'ish-nes), n. Dejection; dulness; stupidity. Bp. Hall. Moplah (mop'lä), n. A Mohammedan inhabitant of Malabar, descended from Arabs and Moors who settled in Malabar and married native women. Moppet (mop'et), n. [Dim. of mop (which see).] 1. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.-2. A fondling name of a little girl or a woman.-3. A woolly variety of dog. Mopsey (mop'si), n. 1. Same as Moppet.2. An untidy woman. Halliwell. Mopsical (mop'sik-al), a. Short-sighted; purblind; mope-eyed; stupid. Bp. Gauden. Mopus (mo'pus), n. A mope; a drone. 'I'm grown a mere mopus.' Swift. Mopus (mo'pus), n. [According to Latham, who defines it as a bad piece of money, 'from Sir Giles Mompesson, the notorious monopolist of James I.'s time.'] Money: usually in the plural. [Slang.] Moquette (mo-ket'), n. [Fr. See Mock.] 1. A tapestry Brussels carpet of a fine quality.-2. A species of Wilton carpet. Mor, More (mōr). A Celtic adjective found often as a component in personal and place names, and signifying great; as, Canmore, great head, Strathmore, the great strath. It occurs also in common nouns of Celtic origin, as claymore, great sword. Mora (mō'ra), n. [L., delay.] In Scots law, a general term applicable to all undue delays in the prosecution or completion of an inchoate bargain, diligence, or the like; and the legal effect of which may be to liberate the contracting parties, or to frustrate the object of the diligence. Mora (moʻra), n. An ancient game still played in Italy with extraordinary zest, by two persons raising the right hand, and suddenly and contemporaneously throwing it down with only some of the fingers extended, when the aim is to guess what they unitedly amount to. Mora (mō'ra), n. [The native Guiana name.] 1. A South American genus of trees, containing only one known species, the M. excelsa. It belongs to the nat. order Leguminosæ, sub-order Caesalpiniem. It is valuable for its timber; the bark is used for tanning, and the seeds, which contain starch, are used by the Indians for food in times of scarcity. In Guiana the tree attains a height of 100 feet 204 and upwards.-2. The wood of that tree, much esteemed for shipbuilding, being recognized at Lloyd's as a first-class timber. Moraceæ (mō-ră'sē-ē), n. pl. [Morus, one of the genera.] A natural order of diclinous exogens, of Lindley's urtical alliance, and sometimes regarded as a sub-order of Artocarpaceæ. The members are trees and shrubs natives of temperate and tropical climates. The plants abound in milky juice, and many of them are valuable for the caoutchouc obtained from it; others are esteemed for their fruit, while the bark of several yields useful fibres. It comprises mulberries, figs, osage-orange, fustic, and contrayerva. Moraine (mō-rān'), n. [Fr., connected with It. mora, a heap of stones.] The name given to those accumulations of stones, sand, or other debris found on the surface of glaciers or in the valleys at their foot. The latter are called terminal moraines, the former lateral or medial moraines, according as they are situated at the sides or about the middle of the glacier. Lateral moraines are formed by the fall of detritus from the mountains that inclose the glaciers and are always present, medial moraines by the union of the adjacent lateral moraines of two or more glaciers from different valleys meeting together. The term moraine profonde is applied to the detritus beneath the glacier. See GLACIER. Moral (mo'ral), a. [Fr. moral, from L. moralis, pertaining to manners or morals, from mos, moris, manner, mores, manners, morals.] 1. Relating to right and wrong as determined by duty; relating to morality or morals; ethical; as, moral law; moral philosophy; moral sense; moral nature; moral courage; moral suasion. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. 2. In a special sense, relating to the private and social duties of men as distinct from civil responsibilities; related or pertaining to a law of right and wrong, considered as being binding in its own nature, and not depending on human laws: opposed to posi tive. Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command; positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case but from exterButler. nal command. 3. Capable of distinguishing between right and wrong; bound to conform to what is right; subject to a principle of duty; accountable. A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. Edwards. MORALIZE Moral (mo'ral), n. 1. Morality; the doctrine or practice of the duties of life. [Rare.] Their moral and economy Prior. Most perfectly they made agree. 2. pl. (a) Conduct; behaviour; course of life in regard to right and wrong; as, a man of correct morals. Some, as corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.' South.(b) Moral philosophy; ethics; as, a lecturer on morals.-3. The doctrine inculcated by a fiction; the practical lesson which anything is designed to teach; hence, intent; meaning. He has left me here to expand the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens. Shak. The moral is the first business of the poet. Dryden. 4. A kind of drama, more commonly called a Morality. Morals, properly so called, however, had disappeared from the stage long before this last date (1625), though something of their peculiar character still survived in the pageant or mask. Craik. 5. [Probably a corruption of model.] An exact likeness; a counterpart. [Slang.] He has got the trick of the eye and the tip of the nose of my uncle; and as for the long chin, it is the very moral of the governor's. Smollett 6. A certainty. [Slang.] Moralt (mo'ral), v. i. To moralize. When I did hear Shak. The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Morale (mō-räl'), n. [An erroneous spelling of Fr. moral, which is used in same sense.] Moral or mental condition as regards courage, zeal, hope, confidence, and the like: said especially of a body of men engaged in a hazardous enterprise, as soldiers and sailors in time of war. Outnumbered by two to one; rudely surprised and beaten in the running series of actions that had occurred two days before,... threatened with the speedy loss of its sole line of retreat, a circumstance of itself often fatal to morale-the first problem that forces itself on us... is, what could its chief have meant by his resolution to stand here (Sedan) at all? Saturday Review. Moralert (mo'ral-ér), n. A moralizer. Come, you are too severe a moraler. Shak. Moralism (moʻral-izm), n. A moral maxim or saying; moral counsel or advice; moral sermonizing; inculcation of morality. 'Accustomed as he was to the somewhat droning moralisms of his congenial friends.' Farrar. [Rare.] Moralist (mo'ral-ist), n. [Fr. moraliste. See MORAL.] 1. One who teaches morals; a writer or lecturer on ethics; one who inculcates moral duties. The advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he should compose his passions. Addison. 2. One who practises moral duties; a moral as distinguished from a religious person. [Rare.] Another is carnal, and a mere moralist. South. Morality (mō-ral'i-ti), n. [Fr. moralité. See MORAL.] 1. The doctrine or system of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; morals; ethics. The system of morality to be gathered from the writings of ancient sages, falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift. 2. The practice of the moral duties; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.-3. The quality of a character, principle, or action, as estimated by a standard of right and wrong; the conformity of an act, principle, &c., to the divine law, or to the true moral standard or rule. The morality of an action is founded on the freedom of that principle by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it. South. 4. A kind of drama, which succeeded the miracle plays or mysteries among our forefathers, of which the persons in the play were abstractions, or allegorical representations of virtues, vices, mental powers, and faculties. The Mysteries were properly theological, the Moralities ethical, in aim, and professedly in tone. The characters were either taken from sacred history or they were allegorical personifications of virtues and vices. G. P. Marsh. Moralization (mo'ral-iz-a"shon), n. 1. Moral reflections, or the act of making moral reflections.-2. Explanation in a moral sense. Annexed to the fable is a moralization of twice the length in the octave stanza. T. Warton. Moralize (mo'ral-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. moralized; ppr. moralizing. [Fr. moraliser. See MORAL] 1. To apply to a moral purpose, |