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- English Word Mortrew Definition A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida.
- English Word Mortuaries Definition of Mortuary
- English Word Mortuary Definition 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.
- English Word Mortuary Definition A burial place; a place for the dead.
- English Word Mortuary Definition A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
- English Word Mortuary Definition Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
- English Word Morula Definition 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.
- English Word Morulae Definition of Morula
- English Word Morulation Definition The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
- English Word Morus Definition A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.
- English Word Morwe Definition See Morrow.
- English Word Morwening Definition Morning.
- English Word Mosaic Definition A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
- English Word Mosaic Definition A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
- English Word Mosaic Definition 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.
- English Word Mosaic Definition Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
- English Word Mosaical Definition Mosaic (in either sense).
- English Word Mosaically Definition In the manner of a mosaic.
- English Word Mosaism Definition Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.
- English Word Mosasaur Definition Alt. of Mosasaurian
- English Word Mosasauria Definition 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.
- English Word Mosasaurian Definition One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.
- English Word Mosasaurus Definition 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.
- English Word Moschatel Definition 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.
- English Word Moschine Definition Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.
- English Word Mosel Definition See Muzzle.
- English Word Moselle Definition A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
- English Word Moses Definition A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
- English Word Mosk Definition See Mosque.
- English Word Moslem Definition of Moslem