| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| moate | verb i. | To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. |
| moble | verb t. | To wrap the head of in a hood. |
| mocha | noun | A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea., A variety of coffee brought from Mocha., An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. |
| moche | noun | A bale of raw silk., Much. |
| modal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality., Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought. |
| model | noun | A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size., Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor’s model of a machine., Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior., That by which a thing is to be measured; standard., Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact., A person who poses as a pattern to an artist., Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband., To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated., To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax. |
| moder | noun | A mother., The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed., To moderate. |
| modii | plural | of Modius |
| modus | noun | The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance., A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like., A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi. |
| moeve | verb t. & i. | To move. |
| mogul | noun | A person of the Mongolian race., A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. |
| mohur | noun | A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21. |
| moile | noun | A kind of high shoe anciently worn. |
| moira | noun | The deity who assigns to every man his lot. |
| moire | noun | Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering., A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. |
| moist | adjective | Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air., Fresh, or new., To moisten. |
| molar | adjective | Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; — said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms., Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth., Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth. |
| mould | verb | Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil., Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material., To cover with mold or soil., A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter., To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon., To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold., The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold., That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason., Cast; form; shape; character., A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts., A fontanel., A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand., To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion., To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb., To knead; as, to mold dough or bread., To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made., Alt. of Mouldy |
| moldy | superl. | Alt. of Mouldy |
| moled | imp. & past participle | of Mole |
| molle | adjective | Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat. |
| molly | noun | Same as Mollemoke., A pet or colloquial name for Mary. |
| moult | verb t. | To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird., To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed., The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting., See Molt. |
| molto | adverb | Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow. |
| momot | noun | See Motmot. |
| momus | noun | The god of mockery and censure. |
| monad | noun | An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible., The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena., One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera., A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid., An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. |
| monal | noun | Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant. |
| monas | noun | A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad. |
| monde | noun | The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. |
| moner | noun | One of the Monera. |
| money | noun | A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin., Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling., In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money., To supply with money. |
| mono- | Alt. of Mon- | |
| monte | noun | A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards. |
| month | noun | One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, — whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month. |
| mooed | imp. & past participle | of Moo |
| moody | superl. | Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed., Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. |
| moong | noun | Same as Mung. |
| moony | adjective | Of or pertaining to the moon., Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent., Silly; weakly sentimental. |
| moory | adjective | Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish., A kind of blue cloth made in India. |
| moose | noun | A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk. |
| moped | imp. & past participle | of Mope |
| mopsy | noun | A moppet., A slatternly, untidy woman. |
| mopus | noun | A mope; a drone. |
| moral | adjective | 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., 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., Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty., 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., Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; — opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty., Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales., The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; — usually in the plural., 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., A morality play. See Morality, 5., To moralize. |
| moray | noun | A muraena. |
| morel | noun | An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces., Nightshade; — so called from its blackish purple berries., A kind of cherry. See Morello. |
| moria | noun | Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness. |
| moric | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid. |
| moril | noun | An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel. |
| morin | noun | A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); — called also moric acid. |
| mormo | noun | A bugbear; false terror. |
| morne | adjective | Of or pertaining to the morn; morning., A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting., Without teeth, tongue, or claws; — said of a lion represented heraldically., The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc., The first or early part; as, the morning of life., The goddess Aurora. |
| morse | noun | The walrus. See Walrus., A clasp for fastening garments in front. |
| morus | noun | A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry. |
| morwe | noun | See Morrow. |
| mosel | noun & verb | See Muzzle. |
| moses | noun | A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship. |
| mossy | superl. | Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams., Resembling moss; as, mossy green. |
| moste | imp. of Mote., of Mot | |
| moote | of Mot | |
| moted | adjective | Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. |
| motet | noun | A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. |
| moths | plural | of Moth |
| mothy | adjective | Infested with moths; moth-eaten. |
| motif | noun | Motive. |
| moton | noun | A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later. |
| motor | noun | One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power., A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work., Alt. of Motorial |
| motte | noun | A clump of trees in a prairie. |
| motto | noun | A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment., A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. |
| motty | adjective | Full of, or consisting of, motes. |
| moule | verb i. | To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold. |
| mound | noun | A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; — called also globe., An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll., To fortify or inclose with a mound. |
| mount | verb | A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; — used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry., A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound., A bank; a fund., To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; — often with up., To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one’s self on a horse for riding., To attain in value; to amount., To get upon; to ascend; to climb., To place one’s self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride., To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses., Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc., To raise aloft; to lift on high., That upon which a person or thing is mounted, A horse., The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting. |
| mourn | verb i. | To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness., To wear the customary garb of a mourner., To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail., To utter in a mournful manner or voice. |
| mouse | noun | Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest., A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping., Same as 2d Mousing, 2., A familiar term of endearment., A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow., A match used in firing guns or blasting., To watch for and catch mice., To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something., To tear, as a cat devours a mouse., To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2. |
| mousy | adjective | Infested with mice; smelling of mice. |
| mouth | noun | The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity., An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;, The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc., The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den., The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged., The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged., The entrance into a harbor., The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal., A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece., Cry; voice., Speech; language; testimony., A wry face; a grimace; a mow., To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour., To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner., To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub., To make mouths at., To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant., To put mouth to mouth; to kiss., To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. |
| moved | imp. & past participle | of Move |
| mover | noun | A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place., A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor., One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition., A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body. |
| mowen | of Mow | |
| mowed | imp. | of Mow, of Mow |
| mower | noun | One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower. |
| moxie | noun | energy; pep., courage, determination., Know-how, expertise. |
| moyle | noun & verb | See Moil, and Moile. |