A mountain.
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Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains.
A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life.
An upward thrust or blow.
In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
A kind of cotton handkerchief having a uniform colored ground with a regular pattern of white spots produced by discharging the color; -- so called from the Glasgow manufactures.
A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.
A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.
A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.
Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
See Monticle.
Monticulate.
Resembling a mountain in form.
Produced on a mountain.
A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes /shown/ as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
See Matross.
That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse.
Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
By way of memorial.
Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid.
The lowing of a cow.
a cow{1}; -- a child's word. See 1st cow{1}, n.
to ask for and get free; to borrow without intending to repay; to sponge; -- usually with objects of small value; as, he mooched a few cigarettes from me.
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Mother.
In a moody manner.
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
The governor of a province in Egypt, etc.
Moody.
Moodily.
Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
money.
See Mollah.
Same as Mulley.
Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow.
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
The action or event of sending a spacecraft to the moon; -- used of manned or unmanned missions.
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.
A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
Having a round, full face.
resembling the moon in shape.
splashed or covered patchily with moonlight; as, the moon-splashed world.
A ray of light from the moon.
Dim-sighted; purblind.
A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.
One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck.
Conduct of one who moons.
A little moon.
An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy. A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
Same as Mung.
The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.
The European goldcrest.
A member of the Unification Church, founded by Sun Myun Moon.
Like the moon; variable.
Being without a moon or moonlight.
To work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night, hence the word.
One who follows an occupation or pastime by moonlight; A moonshiner. In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night. A serenader by moonlight. One who works at a second job in addition to his main occupation.
A simpleton; a lunatic.
Illumined by the moon.
Same as Moonsail.
The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
A Muslim professor or teacher of language.
Moonlight.
A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
Illicit distilling.
Moonlight.
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.
See Moonstruck.
Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding backward on the spot; as, Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s.
The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty. Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. Botrychium Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
A follower of the Rev. Sun Myun Moon; a member of the Unification Church; -- often considered disparaging.
To cast anchor; to become fast.
A reddish-brown grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) of upland moors of Great Britain; the European ptarmigan, or red grouse, also called the moorgame.
A place for mooring.
A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
See Moorpan.
A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
The moorfowl.
A black gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) that inhabits ponds and lakes.
The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Land consisting of a moor or moors.
A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is bilobed; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
A kind of blue cloth made in India.
A large cervine mammal (Alces alces syn. Alces machlis, syn Alces Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many Zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum). Leatherwood.
A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill.
A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Capable of being mooted.
A disputer of a mooted case.
One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
having a bushy top without a leader; -- of trees; as, mop-headed cabbage palms.
A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
A dull, spiritless person.
Shortsighted; purblind.
Mopish.
Dull; spiritless; dejected.
One of a class of Muslims in Malabar.
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