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.
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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.
A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
The long handle of a mop.
A moppet.
A mope; a drone.
A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
Of or pertaining to a moranie.
To moralize.
The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
A moralizer.
moralize.
A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.
One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.
narrowly and conventionally moral; -- of people.
The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
One who moralizes.
In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Marshy; fenny.
A salt of moric acid.
A delaying tarrying; delay.
A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
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.
The religious system of the Moravians.
A muraena.
Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, a morbid condition; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
The quality or state of being morbid.
In a morbid manner.
The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.
Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.
Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.
A diseased state; unhealthiness.
A bit; a morsel.
Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.
The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
In the manner of a mordant.
An embellishment resembling a trill.
A biting quality; corrosiveness.
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