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 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.

Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body.

The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.

Biting; corrosive.

To make more; to increase.

A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.

Moorland.

Nightshade. See 2d Morel.

A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

Greatness.

Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.

The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

Customs; habits; esp., moral customs conformity to which is more or less obligatory; customary law.

Moresque.

Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish. The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.

John Pierpont Morgan, a noted American financier and philanthropist; 1837-1913.

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.

The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

A sword.

A place where the bodies of dead persons are kept, until they are identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.

A Moor.

A dying person.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.

See Morisco.

Obedient.

Obsequiousness; obedience.

Obedient; obsequious.

An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.

A yellow crystalline substance (C15H10O7) of acid properties extracted from fustic (Chlorophora tinctoria syn. Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid and natural yellow 8. It is used as a dye for wool, giving a color from lemon yellow through olive to olive brown, depending on the metal with which it is mordanted.

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.

A yellow dyestuff (C27H30O14) extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia) or from the bark of Coprosma australis. The substance is also found in the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia, called noni, which is touted by some merchants to have a stimulatory effect on the immune system. It is a disaccharide derivative of anthracenedione.

The dotterel.

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 Moringa aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.

Designating an organic acid obtained from oil of ben. See Moringa.

Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (Chlorophora tinctoria, formerly Maclura tinctoria and Morus tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.

A dark variety of smoky quartz.