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Mid
  • (n.) Middle.
  • (superl.) Denoting the middle part

    Midas
  • (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets.

    Midbrain
  • (n.) The middle segment of the brain

    Midday
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to noon

    Midden
  • (n.) A dunghill.

    Middle
  • (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing

    Middling
  • (a.) Of middle rank, state, size, or quality

    Middy
  • (n.) A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

    Midgard
  • (n.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell

    Midge
  • (n.) Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite

    Midgut
  • (n.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine

    Midheaven
  • (n.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens

    Midland
  • (a.) Being in the interior country
  • (n.) The interior or central region of a country

    Midmost
  • (a.) Middle

    Midnight
  • (a.) Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night
  • (n.) The middle of the night

    Midrash
  • (n.) A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

    Midrib
  • (n.) A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf

    Midship
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.

    Midst
  • (adv.) In the middle.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset
  • (prep.) In the midst of

    Midsummer
  • (n.) The middle of summer.

    Midway
  • (a.) Being in the middle of the way or distance
  • (adv.) In the middle of the way or distance
  • (n.) The middle of the way or distance

    Midweek
  • (n.) The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

    Midwife
  • (n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth
  • (v. i.) To perform the office of midwife.
  • (v. t.) To assist in childbirth.

    Midwinter
  • (n.) The middle of winter.

    Mien
  • (n.) Aspect

    Miff
  • (n.) A petty falling out
  • (v. t.) To offend slightly.

    Might
  • (imp.) of May
  • (v.) Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind

    Mignon
  • (v. t.) To flatter.

    Migrant
  • (a.) Migratory.
  • (n.) A migratory bird or other animal.

    Migrate
  • (v. i.) To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding

    Migration
  • (n.) The act of migrating.

    Migratory
  • (a.) Hence, roving

    Mikado
  • (n.) The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.

    Milady
  • (n.) Lit., my lady

    Milanese
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Milan

    Mild
  • (superl.) Gentle

    Mile
  • (n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet

    Milfoil
  • (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves

    Miliaria
  • (n.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size

    Miliary
  • (a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds
  • (n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.

    Milieu
  • (n.) Environment.

    Militant
  • (a.) Engaged in warfare

    Militarism
  • (n.) A military state or condition

    Militarist
  • (n.) A military man.

    Military
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war
  • (n.) The whole body of soldiers

    Militate
  • (v. i.) To make war

    Militia
  • (n.) In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service

    Milk
  • (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants
  • (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
  • (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking

    Mill
  • (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on
  • (v. i.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.
  • (v. t.) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

    Milord
  • (n.) Lit., my lord

    Milreis
  • (n.) A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents

    Milt
  • (n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.
  • (v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

    Mime
  • (n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner
  • (v. i.) To mimic.

    Mimic
  • (n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport
  • (v. t.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage

    Mimosa
  • (n.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M

    Mina
  • (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas

    Mince
  • (n.) A short, precise step
  • (v. i.) To act or talk with affected nicety
  • (v. t.) To affect

    Mincing
  • (a.) That minces

    Mind
  • (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on
  • (v.) Choice
  • (v. i.) To give attention or heed

    Mine
  • (pron. & a.) Belonging to me
  • (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent
  • (v. t.) To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of

    Mingle
  • (n.) A mixture.
  • (v. i.) To become mixed or blended.
  • (v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship

    Miniature
  • (a.) Being on a small
  • (v.) A particular feature or trait.
  • (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

    Minibus
  • (n.) A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

    Minify
  • (v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.

    Minikin
  • (a.) Small
  • (n.) A little darling

    Minim
  • (a.) Minute.
  • (n.) A little man or being

    Mining
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mines
  • (v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them.

    Minion
  • (a.) Fine
  • (n.) A loved one

    Minister
  • (n.) An officer of justice.
  • (v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent

    Ministrant
  • (a.) Performing service as a minister
  • (n.) One who ministers.

    Ministration
  • (n.) The act of ministering

    Ministry
  • (n.) Administration

    Minium
  • (n.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air

    Miniver
  • (n.) A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals

    Mink
  • (n.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola

    Minnesinger
  • (n.) A love-singer

    Minnow
  • (n.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera

    Minor
  • (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.
  • (n.) A Minorite

    Minos
  • (n.) A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions

    Minotaur
  • (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete

    Minster
  • (n.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc

    Minstrel
  • (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument

    Mint
  • (n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply
  • (v. t.) To invent

    Minuend
  • (n.) The number from which another number is to be subtracted.

    Minuet
  • (n.) A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.

    Minus
  • (a.) Less

    Minute
  • (a.) Attentive to small things
  • (n.) A coin
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of

    Minyan
  • (n.) A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.

    Miocene
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary.
  • (n.) The Miocene period.

    Mir
  • (n.) A Russian village community.

    Miracle
  • (n.) A miracle play.
  • (v. t.) To make wonderful.

    Miraculous
  • (a.) Of the nature of a miracle

    Mirage
  • (n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated

    Mire
  • (n.) An ant.
  • (v. i.) To stick in mire.
  • (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire

    Mirror
  • (n.) A looking-glass or a speculum
  • (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror.

    Mirth
  • (n.) Merriment

    Mirza
  • (n.) The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince

    Mis
  • (a. & adv.) Wrong

    Misadventure
  • (n.) Mischance

    Misalliance
  • (n.) A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station

    Misanthrope
  • (n.) A hater of mankind

    Misapprehend
  • (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense

    Misapprehension
  • (n.) A mistaking or mistake

    Misappropriate
  • (v. t.) To appropriate wrongly

    Misbecome
  • (v. t.) Not to become

    Misbegotten
  • (p. a.) Unlawfully or irregularly begotten

    Misbehave
  • (v. t. & i.) To behave ill

    Misbehavior
  • (n.) Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior

    Misbelief
  • (n.) Erroneous or false belief.

    Misbelieve
  • (v. i.) To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.

    Miscalculate
  • (v. t. & i.) To calculate erroneously

    Miscall
  • (v. t.) To call by a bad name

    Miscarriage
  • (n.) Ill conduct

    Miscarry
  • (v. i.) To bring forth young before the proper time.

    Miscast
  • (n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.
  • (v. t.) To cast or reckon wrongly.

    Miscellanea
  • (n. pl.) A collection of miscellaneous matters

    Miscellaneous
  • (a.) Mixed

    Miscellanist
  • (n.) A writer of miscellanies

    Miscellany
  • (a.) Miscellaneous
  • (n.) A mass or mixture of various things

    Mischance
  • (n.) Ill luck
  • (v. i.) To happen by mischance.

    Mischief
  • (n.) Cause of trouble or vexation
  • (v. t.) To do harm to.

    Mischievous
  • (a.) Causing mischief

    Miscible
  • (a.) Capable of being mixed

    Misconceive
  • (v. t. & i.) To conceive wrongly

    Misconception
  • (n.) Erroneous conception

    Misconduct
  • (n.) Wrong conduct
  • (v. i.) To behave amiss.
  • (v. t.) To conduct amiss

    Misconstruction
  • (n.) Erroneous construction

    Misconstrue
  • (v. t.) To construe wrongly

    Miscount
  • (n.) An erroneous counting.
  • (v. t. & i.) To count erroneously.

    Miscreant
  • (a.) Destitute of conscience
  • (n.) One not restrained by Christian principles

    Miscue
  • (n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired

    Misdeal
  • (n.) The act of misdealing
  • (v. t. & i.) To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards

    Misdeed
  • (n.) An evil deed

    Misdemeanant
  • (n.) One guilty of a misdemeanor.

    Misdemeanor
  • (n.) A crime less than a felony.

    Misdirect
  • (v. t.) To give a wrong direction to

    Misdoubt
  • (n.) Irresolution
  • (v. t. & i.) To be suspicious of

    Miser
  • (n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person

    Misfeasance
  • (n.) A trespass

    Misfit
  • (n.) Something that fits badly, as a garment.

    Misfortune
  • (n.) Bad fortune or luck
  • (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately

    Misgive
  • (v. i.) To give out doubt and apprehension
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage

    Misgiving
  • (n.) Evil premonition

    Misguide
  • (n.) Misguidance
  • (v. t.) To guide wrongly

    Mishandle
  • (v. t.) To handle ill or wrongly

    Mishap
  • (n.) Evil accident
  • (v. i.) To happen unluckily

    Mishear
  • (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.

    Mishmash
  • (n.) A hotchpotch.

    Misinform
  • (v. i.) To give untrue information
  • (v. t.) To give untrue information to

    Misinterpret
  • (v. t.) To interpret erroneously

    Misjoinder
  • (n.) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil

    Misjudge
  • (v. t. & i.) To judge erroneously or unjustly

    Mislay
  • (v. t.) To lay in a place not recollected

    Mislead
  • (v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path

    Mislike
  • (n.) Dislike
  • (v.) To dislike

    Mismanage
  • (v. t. & i.) To manage ill or improperly

    Mismatch
  • (v. t.) To match unsuitably.

    Misnomer
  • (n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment
  • (v. t.) To misname.

    Misogamy
  • (n.) Hatre/ of marriage.

    Misogyny
  • (n.) Hatred of women.

    Misology
  • (n.) Hatred of argument or discussion

    Mispickel
  • (n.) Arsenical iron pyrites

    Misplace
  • (v. t.) To put in a wrong place

    Misplead
  • (v. i.) To err in pleading.

    Misprint
  • (n.) A mistake in printing
  • (v. t.) To print wrong.

    Misprision
  • (n.) A neglect, negligence, or contempt.

    Misprize
  • (v.) To slight or undervalue.

    Mispronounce
  • (v. t. & i.) To pronounce incorrectly.

    Misquote
  • (v. t. & i.) To quote erroneously or incorrectly.

    Misread
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Misread
  • (v. t.) To read amiss

    Misrepresent
  • (v. i.) To make an incorrect or untrue representation.
  • (v. t.) To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably)

    Misrule
  • (n.) Disorder
  • (v. t. & i.) To rule badly

    Miss
  • (n.) A kept mistress.
  • (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
  • (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of

    Mist
  • (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain
  • (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops
  • (v. t.) To cloud

    Misunderstand
  • (v. t.) To misconceive

    Misunderstood
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Misunderstand

    Misusage
  • (n.) Bad treatment

    Misuse
  • (n.) Violence, or its effects.
  • (v. t.) To abuse

    Mite
  • (n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species

    Mithras
  • (n.) The sun god of the Persians.

    Mithridate
  • (n.) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison

    Mitigate
  • (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.

    Mitrailleuse
  • (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly

    Mitral
  • (a.) Pertaining to a miter

    Mitre
  • (n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks
  • (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction
  • (v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction

    Mitt
  • (n.) A mitten

    Mix
  • (v. i.) To associate
  • (v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others

    Mixed
  • (a.) Formed by mixing

    Mixer
  • (n.) A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts

    Mixture
  • (n.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients

    Mizzen
  • (a.) Hindmost
  • (n.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel

    Mizzle
  • (n.) Mist
  • (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops.

    Mnemonics
  • (n.) The art of memory

    Mnemosyne
  • (n.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

    Mo
  • (a., adv., & n.) More

    Moa
  • (n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand

    Moan
  • (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound
  • (v. t.) To afflict

    Moat
  • (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water
  • (v. t.) To surround with a moat.

    Mob
  • (n.) A mobcap.
  • (v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy

    Mobcap
  • (n.) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls

    Mobile
  • (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited

    Mobility
  • (n.) The mob

    Mobilize
  • (v. t.) To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

    Mobocracy
  • (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights

    Moccasin
  • (n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water

    Mocha
  • (n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

    Moche
  • (a.) Much.
  • (n.) A bale of raw silk.

    Mock
  • (a.) Imitating reality, but not real
  • (n.) An act of ridicule or derision
  • (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest
  • (v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of

    Modal
  • (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

    Mode
  • (n.) A kind of silk.

    Modicum
  • (n.) A little

    Modification
  • (n.) The act of modifying, or the state of being modified

    Modifier
  • (n.) One who, or that which, modifies.

    Modify
  • (v. t.) To change somewhat the form or qualities of

    Modillion
  • (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders

    Modiolus
  • (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.

    Modish
  • (a.) According to the mode, or customary manner

    Modiste
  • (n.) A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies

    Modular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius

    Modulate
  • (v. i.) To pass from one key into another.
  • (v. t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

    Modulation
  • (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key

    Module
  • (n.) A model or measure.

    Modulus
  • (n.) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc

    Mogul
  • (n.) A great personage

    Mohair
  • (n.) The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor

    Mohawk
  • (n.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River

    Moho
  • (n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct

    Mohur
  • (n.) A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.

    Moidore
  • (n.) A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

    Moiety
  • (a.) An indefinite part

    Moil
  • (n.) A spot
  • (v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor
  • (v. t.) To daub

    Moire
  • (a.) Watered
  • (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance on textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.

    Moist
  • (a.) Fresh, or new.
  • (v. t.) To moisten.

    Mojarra
  • (n.) Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridae, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food

    Molar
  • (a.) Having power to grind
  • (n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars

    Molasses
  • (n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture

    Mole
  • (n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
  • (v. t.) To clear of molehills.

    Moline
  • (n.) The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle

    Moll
  • (a.) Minor

    Moloch
  • (n.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance

    Molten
  • (a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed
  • (p. p.) of Melt

    Molto
  • (adv.) Much

    Moly
  • (n.) 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

    Moment
  • (n.) A minute portion of time

    Momus
  • (n.) The god of mockery and censure.

    Mon
  • (n.) 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

    Monachal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life

    Monacid
  • (a.) Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical

    Monad
  • (n.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen

    Monandrous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the monandria

    Monandry
  • (n.) The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time

    Monarch
  • (a.) Superior to others
  • (n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.

    Monastery
  • (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks

    Monastic
  • (n.) A monk.

    Monatomic
  • (adv.) Consisting of, or containing, one atom

    Monaxial
  • (a.) Having only one axis

    Monazite
  • (n.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals

    Monday
  • (n.) The second day of the week

    Monetary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money

    Monetize
  • (v. t.) To convert into money

    Money
  • (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc
  • (v. t.) To supply with money.

    Mongol
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
  • (n.) One of the Mongols.

    Moniliform
  • (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads

    Monition
  • (n.) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.

    Monitor
  • (n.) A monitor nozzle.

    Monk
  • (n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink

    Mono
  • (n.) The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).

    Monseigneur
  • (n.) My lord

    Monsoon
  • (n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction

    Monstrance
  • (n.) A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

    Monstrosity
  • (n.) The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature

    Monstrous
  • (a.) Abounding in monsters.
  • (adv.) Exceedingly

    Mont
  • (n.) Mountain.

    Monument
  • (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc

    Moo
  • (n.) The lowing of a cow.
  • (v. i.) To make the noise of a cow

    Mood
  • (n.) Manner

    Moon
  • (n.) A crescentlike outwork.
  • (v. i.) To act if moonstruck
  • (v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.

    Moor
  • (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
  • (v. i.) To cast anchor

    Moose
  • (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada

    Moot
  • (a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion
  • (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation
  • (v.) A discussion or debate
  • (v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise

    Mop
  • (n.) A fair where servants are hired.
  • (v. i.) To make a wry mouth.
  • (v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop

    Mopboard
  • (n.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor

    Mope
  • (n.) A dull, spiritless person.
  • (v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
  • (v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.

    Moppet
  • (n.) A long-haired pet dog.

    Moquette
  • (n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

    Moraine
  • (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

    Moral
  • (a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner
  • (n.) A morality play.
  • (v. i.) To moralize.

    Morass
  • (n.) A tract of soft, wet ground

    Moratorium
  • (n.) A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp

    Moratory
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to delay

    Moravian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren.
  • (n.) 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

    Moray
  • (n.) A muraena.

    Morbid
  • (a.) Not sound and healthful

    Morceau
  • (n.) A bit

    Mordacious
  • (a.) Biting

    Mordant
  • (a.) Biting
  • (n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.
  • (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant

    More
  • (adv.) In addition
  • (n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number
  • (superl.) Additional
  • (v. t.) To make more

    Morgan
  • (n.) One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses

    Morgue
  • (n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends

    Moribund
  • (a.) In a dying state
  • (n.) A dying person.

    Morisco
  • (a.) Moresque.
  • (n.) A thing of Moorish origin

    Mormon
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons
  • (n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill

    Morn
  • (n.) The first part of the day

    Morocco
  • (n.) 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

    Morose
  • (a.) Lascivious

    Morpheus
  • (n.) The god of dreams.

    Morphia
  • (n.) Morphine.

    Morphine
  • (n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne

    Morphinism
  • (n.) A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

    Morpho
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho

    Morris
  • (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games

    Morro
  • (n.) A round hill or point of land

    Morse
  • (n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.

    Mortal
  • (a.) Affecting as if with power to kill
  • (n.) A being subject to death

    Mortar
  • (n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials
  • (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.

    Mortgage
  • (n.) A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms
  • (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively

    Mortgagor
  • (n.) One who gives a mortgage.

    Mortification
  • (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution

    Mortify
  • (v. i.) To be subdued
  • (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation

    Mortise
  • (n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon
  • (v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.

    Mortmain
  • (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate

    Mortuary
  • (a.) A burial place

    Morula
  • (n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development


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