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- English Word Moslem Definition A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
- English Word Moslem Definition Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
- English Word Moslems Definition of Moslem
- English Word Moslings Definition Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
- English Word Mososaurus Definition Same as Mosasaurus.
- English Word Mosque Definition A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
- English Word Mosquito Definition 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.
- English Word Mosquitoes Definition of Mosquito
- English Word Moss Definition 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.
- English Word Moss Definition A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
- English Word Moss Definition To cover or overgrow with moss.
- English Word Moss-grown Definition Overgrown with moss.
- English Word Mossback Definition A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
- English Word Mossbanker Definition Alt. of Mossbunker
- English Word Mossbunker Definition The menhaded.
- English Word Mossed Definition of Moss
- English Word Mossiness Definition The state of being mossy.
- English Word Mossing Definition of Moss
- English Word Mosstrooper Definition 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.
- English Word Mossy Definition Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
- English Word Mossy Definition Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
- English Word Most Definition Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.
- English Word Most Definition Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.
- English Word Most Definition Highest in rank; greatest.
- English Word Most Definition In the greatest or highest degree.
- English Word Mostahiba Definition See Mustaiba.
- English Word Moste Definition imp. of Mote.
- English Word Moste Definition of Mot
- English Word Mostic Definition Alt. of Mostick
- English Word Mostick Definition A painter's maul-stick.