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- English Word Moppet Definition A long-haired pet dog.
- English Word Mopping Definition of Mop
- English Word Mopsey Definition Alt. of Mopsy
- English Word Mopsical Definition Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
- English Word Mopstick Definition The long handle of a mop.
- English Word Mopsy Definition A moppet.
- English Word Mopsy Definition A slatternly, untidy woman.
- English Word Mopus Definition A mope; a drone.
- English Word Moquette Definition A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
- English Word Mora Definition A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
- English Word Mora Definition A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
- English Word Mora Definition Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
- English Word Moraine Definition An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
- English Word Morainic Definition Of or pertaining to a moranie.
- English Word Moral Definition Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
- English Word Moral Definition Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
- English Word Moral Definition Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
- English Word Moral Definition Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
- English Word Moral Definition Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
- English Word Moral Definition Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
- English Word Moral Definition The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Moral Definition The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
- English Word Moral Definition A morality play. See Morality, 5.
- English Word Moral Definition To moralize.
- English Word Morale Definition 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.
- English Word Moraler Definition A moralizer.
- English Word Moralism Definition A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.
- English Word Moralist Definition 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.
- English Word Moralist Definition One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
- English Word Moralities Definition of Morality