Mortar (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
Mortar (n.) A chamber lamp or light.
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; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.
Mortgage (n.) State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
Mortgaged (imp. & p. p.) of Mortgage
Mortgaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortgage
Mortgage (v. t.) 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.
Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
Mortgagee (n.) The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
Mortgageor (n.) Alt. of Mortgagor
Mortgagor (n.) One who gives a mortgage.
Mortgager (n.) gives a mortgage.
Mortiferous (a.) Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb.
Mortification (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
Mortification (n.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
Mortification (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
Mortification (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
Mortification (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
Mortified () imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
Mortifiedness (n.) The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions.
Mortifier (n.) One who, or that which, mortifies.
Mortified (imp. & p. p.) of Mortify
Mortifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify
Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
Mortify (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
Mortify (v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
Mortifying (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
Mortifying (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
Mortifying (a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
Mortifyingly (adv.) In a mortifying manner.
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.
Mortised (imp. & p. p.) of Mortise
Mortising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortise
Mortise (v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling.
Mortling (n.) Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
Mortmal (n.) See Mormal.
Mortpay (n.) Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
Mortress (n.) Alt. of Mortrew
Mortrew (n.) A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida.
Mortuaries (pl. ) of Mortuary
Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Morulae (pl. ) of Morula
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; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Morulation (n.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
Morus (n.) A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.
Morwe (n.) See Morrow.
Morwening (n.) Morning.
Mosaic (n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
Mosaic (n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
Mosaical (a.) Mosaic (in either sense).
Mosaically (adv.) In the manner of a mosaic.
Mosaism (n.) Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.
Mosasaur (n.) Alt. of Mosasaurian
Mosasaurian (n.) One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
Mosasaurus (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
Moschatel (n.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot.
Moschine (a.) Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.
Mosel (n. & v.) See Muzzle.
Moselle (n.) A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
Moses (n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
Mosk (n.) See Mosque.
Moslems (pl. ) of Moslem
Moslem (pl. ) of Moslem
Moslem (n.) A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
Moslem (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Mososaurus (n.) Same as Mosasaurus.
Mosque (n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
Mosquitoes (pl. ) of Mosquito
Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
Moss (n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
Mossed (imp. & p. p.) of Moss
Mossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moss
Moss (v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.
Mossback (n.) A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
Mossbanker (n.) Alt. of Mossbunker
Mossbunker (n.) The menhaded.
Moss-grown (a.) Overgrown with moss.
Mossiness (n.) The state of being mossy.
Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
Mossy (superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
Mossy (superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
Most (a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.
Most (a.) Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.