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- English Word Morris Definition 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.
- English Word Morris-pike Definition A Moorish pike.
- English Word Morrot Definition See Marrot.
- English Word Morrow Definition Morning.
- English Word Morrow Definition The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood.
- English Word Morrow Definition The day following the present; to-morrow.
- English Word Morse Definition The walrus. See Walrus.
- English Word Morse Definition A clasp for fastening garments in front.
- English Word Morse alphabet Definition A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.
- English Word Morsel Definition A little bite or bit of food.
- English Word Morsel Definition A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
- English Word Morsing horn Definition A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming.
- English Word Morsitation Definition The act of biting or gnawing.
- English Word Morsure Definition The act of biting.
- English Word Mort Definition A great quantity or number.
- English Word Mort Definition A woman; a female.
- English Word Mort Definition A salmon in its third year.
- English Word Mort Definition Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
- English Word Mort Definition A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
- English Word Mort Definition The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- English Word Mortal Definition Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
- English Word Mortal Definition Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
- English Word Mortal Definition Fatally vulnerable; vital.
- English Word Mortal Definition Of or pertaining to the time of death.
- English Word Mortal Definition Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
- English Word Mortal Definition Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
- English Word Mortal Definition Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.
- English Word Mortal Definition A being subject to death; a human being; man.
- English Word Mortality Definition The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
- English Word Mortality Definition Human life; the life of a mortal being.