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.

The restoration of lost parts of the body.

A thing of Moorish origin; The Moorish language. A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. One who dances the Moorish dance. Moresque decoration or architecture.

Same as Morisco.

A beast that has died of disease or by mischance.

Moorland.

Mortling.

A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.

A bugbear; false terror.

Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.

The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.

The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.

A Mormon. Mormon.

The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.

Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

Morning time.

Towards the morn.

A member of any of the Moros, a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Islam.

Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly.

An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

having a mental age of between eight and twelve years; also used as a derogatory term.

An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.

Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.

Sourly; with sullen austerity.

Sourness of temper; sulenness.

Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

Moroseness.

A philosophical or learned fool.

Morose.

A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.

A morate.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.

To transform smoothly in imperceptible steps from one image to another, on a computer screen.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.

The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form.

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

The study of the types and functions of morphemes; morphology{4}.

The god of dreams.

To cover with a morphew.

Morphine.

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

The smooth transformation of one shape or image into another, displayed on the computer screen as a series of images that appear to be continuous, as if in a movie.

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny.

Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology.

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.

A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology.

The laws of organic formation.

The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions.

The order or mode of development of an organ or part.

Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids.

A louse.

Dancing the morrice; dancing.

A morris dancer.

See Mormal.

A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

A Moorish pike.

A round hill or point of land; hence, Morro castle, a castle on a hill.

See Marrot.

Morning.

A clasp for fastening garments in front.

A little bite or bit of food.

The act of biting or gnawing.

The act of biting.

A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.

A being subject to death; a human being; man.

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

To make mortal.

In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

Quality of being mortal; mortality.

A chamber lamp or light.

A small square board with a handle beneath, for holding mortar; a hawk; used by masons to hold or carry mortar.

To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.

burdened with legal or financial obligations; as, His house was mortgaged to the hilt.

The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.

One who gives a mortgage.

One who gives a mortgage.

Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb.