Moll (a.) Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
Mollah (n.) One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.
Molle (a.) Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.
Mollebart (n.) An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man.
Mollemoke (n.) Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar.
Mollient (a.) Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.
Molliently (adv.) Assuagingly.
Mollifiable (a.) Capable of being mollified.
Mollification (n.) The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening.
Mollifier (n.) One who, or that which, mollifies.
Mollified (imp. & p. p.) of Mollify
Mollifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mollify
Mollify (v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
Mollify (v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
Mollinet (n.) A little mill.
Mollipilose (a.) Having soft hairs; downy.
Mollities (n.) Unnatural softness of any organ or part.
Mollitude (n.) Softness; effeminacy; weakness.
Mollusc (n.) Same as Mollusk.
Mollusca (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.
Molluscan (a.) Of or pertaining to mollusks.
Molluscan (n.) A mollusk; one of the Mollusca.
Molluscoid (a.) Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea.
Molluscoid (n.) One of the Molluscoidea.
Molluscoidal (a.) Molluscoid.
Molluscoidea (n. pl.) A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.
Molluscous (a.) Molluscan.
Molluscum (n.) A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
Mollusk (n.) One of the Mollusca.
Molly (n.) Same as Mollemoke.
Molly (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.
Molly-mawk (n.) See Mollemoke.
Moloch (n.) The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.
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.
Molosse (n.) See Molossus.
Molosses (n.) Molasses.
Molossine (n.) A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.
Molossus (n.) A foot of three long syllables.
Molt () imp. of Melt.
Molted (imp. & p. p.) of Moult
Moulted () of Moult
Molting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moult
Moulting () of Moult
Molt (v. t.) Alt. of Moult
Moult (v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
Molt (v. t.) Alt. of Moult
Moult (v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
Molt (n.) Alt. of Moult
Moult (n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
Moltable (a.) Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible.
Molten (a.) Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.
Molten (a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
Molto (adv.) Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.
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.
Moly (n.) A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.
Molybdate (n.) A salt of molybdic acid.
Molybdena (n.) See Molybdenite.
Molybdenite (n.) A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
Molybdenous (a.) See Molybdous.
Molybdenum (n.) A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9.
Molybdic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.
Molybdite (n.) Molybdic ocher.
Molybdous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.
Mome (n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead.
Moment (n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
Moment (n.) Impulsive power; force; momentum.
Moment (n.) Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.
Moment (n.) An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
Moment (n.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
Moment (n.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
Momental (a.) Lasting but a moment; brief.
Momental (a.) Important; momentous.
Momental (a.) Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.
Momentally (adv.) For a moment.
Momentaneous (a.) Alt. of Momentany
Momentany (a.) Momentary.
Momentarily (adv.) Every moment; from moment to moment.
Momentariness (n.) The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.
Momentary (a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
Momently (adv.) For a moment.
Momently (adv.) In a moment; every moment; momentarily.
Momentous (a.) Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.
Momenta (pl. ) of Momentum
Momentums (pl. ) of Momentum
Momentum (n.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.
Momentum (n.) Essential element, or constituent element.
Momier (n.) A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.
Mommery (n.) See Mummery.
Momot (n.) See Motmot.
Momus (n.) The god of mockery and censure.
Mon- () Same as Mono-.
Mona (n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Monachal (a.) Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
Monachism (n.) The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
Monacid (a.) Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of bases, and of certain metals.
Monad (n.) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Monad (n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.
Monad (n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
Monad (n.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
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.