One who, or that which, mollifies.

To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.

A little mill.

Having soft hairs; downy.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part.

Softness; effeminacy; weakness.

Same as Mollusk.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, a phylum including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, and Pelecyopoda (syn. Bivalvia, formerly called Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera). These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

Of or pertaining to mollusks. A mollusk; one of the Mollusca.

Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea. One of the Molluscoidea.

Molluscoid.

A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.

Molluscan.

A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.

One of the Mollusca.

A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

See Mollemoke.

To pamper or coddle.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

See Raskolnik.

See Molossus.

Molasses.

A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.

A foot of three long syllables.

a city in the European part of Soviet Russia.

A home-made incendiary device consisting of a bottle filled with gasoline, and a cloth wick. The wick is lighted, and the bottle thrown at a target, such as a vehicle, where it may shatter and spread intense flames over the vehicle, destroying or damaging it.

imp. of Melt.

Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible.

Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

The act or process by which an animal molts; especially, the periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles, or feathers in birds.

Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.

A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe.

A salt of molybdic acid.

See Molybdenite.

A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.

See Molybdous.

A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic number 42. Atomic weight 95.94.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.

Molybdic ocher.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.

A dull, silent person; a blockhead.

A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at that very moment.

Lasting but a moment; brief.

For a moment.

Momentary.

Every moment; from moment to moment.

The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.

For a moment.

Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.

utmost importance.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied by the velocity; impetus.

A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

See Mummery.

A genus of Old World tropical vine.

The god of blame and mockery; Momus.

See Motmot.

The type genus of the Momotidae.

The god of mockery and censure.

The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used.

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

An acid having one replaceable hydrogen atom.

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

The Infusoria.

A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n.

Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.

The doctrine or theory of monads.

Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.

An amido compound with only one amido group; a monoamide.

A basic compound containing one amido group; a monoamine; as, methyl amine is a monamine.

One of the Monandria.

A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.

Same as Monandrous.

Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Having but one flower; one-flowered.

Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus) having striking orange-brown wings with black veins in a reticulated pattern; -- called also milkweed butterfly and monarch. Its larvae feed on the leaves of the milkweed.

Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovereign; regal; imperial.

A female monarch.

Monarchic.

One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.

Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy.

The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

To rule; to govern.

One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist.

The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.

A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life.

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

A monk.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

In a monastic manner.

The monastic life, system, or condition.

A book giving an account of monasteries.

Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.

Having or hearing with only one ear.

Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.

A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.

A child who is fair of face; -- a reference to a nineteenth century poem. See below.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

A moan.

See Monoecian, and Monoecious.

The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo.

One of the Monera.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

Of or pertaining to the Monera.

Of or pertaining to the Monera. One of the Monera.

One of the Monera.

A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent.

The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.