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Monte (mŏnt�), n. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.] A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
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Coloq. three-card monte a gambling game using playing cards, in which a dealer shows a bettor three cards face up and specifies one to be identified, and after the cards are turned face down and moved around quickly, the bettor must identify which of the three cards is the specified card. It is sometimes engaged in by dealers on the streets of a city, with bets made by passers-by.
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Monte (?), n. In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
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Monte-acid (?), n. [F. monter to raise + acide acid.] (Chem.) An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
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Monteith (?), n. See .
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Monteith (?), n. A kind of cotton handkerchief having a uniform colored ground with a regular pattern of white spots produced by discharging the color; -- so called from the Glasgow manufactures.
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Monte-jus (?), n. [F., fr. monter to bring up + jus juice.] An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
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Montem (?), n. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See , n.] A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
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Montero (?), n. [Sp. montera a hunting cap, fr. montero a huntsman, monte a mountain, forest, L. mons, montis, mountain. See , n.] An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon.
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Montessori Method (?). (Pedagogy) A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the “Houses of Childhood” (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. The fundamental aim is to create self-motivation for education, and the leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of reading and writing skills, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of “didactic apparatus,” which is declared to be “auto-regulative.” Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812-80).
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{ Monteth (?), Monteith (?) }, n. A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
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New things produce new words, and thus Monteth
Has by one vessel saved his name from death. King.
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Montgolfier (?), n. A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
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Month (mŭnth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS. mōnð, mōnað; akin to mōna moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG. mānōd, Icel. mānuðr, mānaðr, Goth. mēnōþs. √272. See .] 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.
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☞ In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed. Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the common law is generally changed, and a month is declared to mean a calendar month. Cooley's Blackstone.
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Coloq. A month mind . (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. -- Coloq. Calendar months , the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. -- Coloq. Lunar month , the period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36 s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7 s. -- Coloq. Solar month , the time in which the sun passes through one sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1 s.
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Monthling (?), n. That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.] Wordsworth.
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Monthly, a. 1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
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2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
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Coloq. Monthly nurse , a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.
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Monthly, n.; pl. Monthlies (�). A publication which appears regularly once a month.
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Monthly, adv. 1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly. Shak.
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2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [Obs.] Middleton.
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Monticle (?), n. [L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. monticule. See , n.] A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]
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Monticulate (?), a. Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
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Monticule (?), n. See .
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Monticulous (?), a. Monticulate.
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Montiform (?), a. [L. mons, montis, mountain + -form.] Resembling a mountain in form.
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Montigenous (?), a. [L. montigena; mons, montis, mountain + the root of gignere to beget.] Produced on a mountain.
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Montoir (?), n. [F., fr. monter to mount. See .] A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
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Monton (?), n. [Sp.] (Mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
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Montre (?), n. [F., show, show case, organ case.] 1. (Organ Building) A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes “shown” as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
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2. A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged.
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Montross (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Montrue (?), n. [F., fr. monter to mount. See .] That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Monument (?), n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See , and cf. .] 1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
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Of ancient British art
A pleasing monument. Philips.
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Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak.
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2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
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On your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial. Shak.
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3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
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4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
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Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.
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Syn. -- Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
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Monumental (?), a. [L. monumentalis: cf. F. monumental.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
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2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. “Of pine, or monumental oak.” Milton.
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A work outlasting monumental brass. Pope.
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3. Of lasting significance; as, a monumental work of literature; a monumental accomplishment.
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4. Exceptionally large in quantity, quality, or degree; as, a monumental amount of work to be done
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Monumentally, adv. 1. By way of memorial.
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2. By means of monuments.
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Monureid (?), n. [Mon- + ureid.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]
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Moo (mō), a., adv., & n. See . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Moo (m�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooing.] [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- a child's word.
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Moo, n. The lowing of a cow.
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mooch v. t. 1. to ask for and get free; to borrow without intending to repay; to sponge; -- usually with objects of small value; as, he mooched a few cigarettes from me.
Syn. -- bum, cadge, grub, sponge.
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2. To beg for.
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moo-cow n. a cow{1}; -- a child's word. See 1st {1}, n.
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Mood (m�d), n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See .] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See which is the preferable form).
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2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as .
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Mood, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. mōdmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mōd, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mōðr wrath, Goth. mōds.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
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Till at the last aslaked was his mood. Chaucer.
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Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything. Shak.
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The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.
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Mooder (?), n. Mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Moodily (m�dĭl�), adv. In a moody manner.
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Moodiness, n. The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
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Moodir (?), n. [Ar. mudīr.] The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]
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Moodish (?), a. Moody. [Obs.]
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Moodishly, adv. Moodily. [Obs.]
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Moody (?), a. [Compar. Moodier (?); superl. Moodiest.] [AS. mōdig courageous.] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
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2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. “Every peevish, moody malcontent.” Rowe.
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Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.
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Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
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{ Moolah (?), Moollah }, n. See .
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Moolley (?), n. Same as .
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moola, moolah (m�lȧ), n. money. [slang]
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Moon (m�n), n. [OE. mone, AS. mōna; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. māno, G. mond, Icel. māni, Dan. maane, Sw. måne, Goth. mēna, Lith. menů, L. mensis month, Gr. mhnh moon, mhn month, Skr. mās moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. mā to measure), from its serving to measure the time. √271. Cf. to measure, , , .] 1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under .
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The crescent moon, the diadem of night. Cowper.
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2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
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3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.
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4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See .
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5. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang]
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Coloq. Moon blindness . (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Coloq. Moon dial , a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Coloq. Moon face , a round face like a full moon. -- Coloq. Moon madness , lunacy. [Poetic] -- Coloq. Moon month , a lunar month. -- Coloq. Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See . -- Coloq. Moon year , a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen. -- Coloq. blue moon , see in the vocabulary.
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Moon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooning.] 1. To expose to the rays of the moon.
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If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. Holland.
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2. To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
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Moon, v. i. To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
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Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.
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Moonbeam (?), n. A ray of light from the moon.
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Moonblind (?), a. Dim-sighted; purblind.
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Moonblink (?), n. A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
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Mooncalf (?), n. 1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
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2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.
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Moon-culminating (?), a. Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
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Mooned (?), a. Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. “Sharpening in mooned horns.” “Mooned Ashtaroth.” Milton.
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Mooner (?), n. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.
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Moonery (?), n. Conduct of one who moons. [R.]
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Moonet (?), n. A little moon. [R.] Bp. Hall.
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Moon-eye (?), n. 1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
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2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. Hyodon tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.
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Moon-eyed (?), a. Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
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Moon-faced (?), a. Having a round, full face.
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Moonfish (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. (c) The mola. See , 1.
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Moonflower (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy. (b) A kind of morning glory (Ipomœa Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
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Moong (?), n. (Bot.) Same as .
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Moonglade (?), n. The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]
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moonie (m�nē), n. (Zoöl.) The European goldcrest.
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Moonie (m�nē), prop. n. [from Sun Myun Moon, Korean evangelist and founder.] A member of the Unification Church, founded by Sun Myun Moon. [informal & contemptuous.]
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Moonish (m�nĭsh), a. Like the moon; variable.
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Being but a moonish youth. Shak.
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Moonless, a. Being without a moon or moonlight.
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Moonlight (m�nlīt), n. The light of the moon. -- a. Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
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Moonlight (m�nlīt), v. i. to work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night.
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Moonlighter (m�nlītẽr), n. One who follows an occupation or pastime by moonlight; as: (a) A moonshiner. (b) In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night. (c) A serenader by moonlight. [Local, U. S.] (d) One who works at a second job in addition to his main occupation.
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Moonling (?), n. A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]
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Moonlit (?), a. Illumined by the moon. “The moonlit sea.” Moore. “Moonlit dells.” Lowell.
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Moonraker (?), n. (Naut.) Same as .
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Moonrise (?), n. The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
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moon-round adj. resembling the moon in shape.
Syn. -- moonlike.
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Moonsail (?), n. (Naut.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Moonseed (?), n. (Bot.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
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Moonset (?), n. The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
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Moonshee (?), n. [Hind. munishī, fr. Ar. munishī a writer, author, secretary, tutor.] A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. [India]
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Moonshine (?), n. 1. The light of the moon.
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2. Hence, show without substance or reality.
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3. A month. [R.] Shak.
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4. A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]
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5. Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
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Moonshine, a. Moonlight. [R.] Clarendon.
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2. Empty; trivial; idle.
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3. Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
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Moonshiner (?), n. A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]
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Moonshining (?), n. Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]
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Moonshiny (?), a. Moonlight. [Colloq.]
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I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.
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Moon shot (m�n shŏt), n. The action or event of sending a spacecraft to the moon; -- used of manned or unmanned missions.
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moon-splashed adj. splashed or covered patchily with moonlight; as, the moon-splashed world.
Syn. -- moon splashed.
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Moonstone (m�nstōn), n. (Min.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
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Moonstricken (m�nstrĭk'n), a. See .
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Moonstruck (m�nstrŭk), a. 1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
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2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. “Moonstruck madness.” Milton.
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3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
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moonwalk n. 1. a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding backward on the spot; as, Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s.
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2. an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of Earth's moon.
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Moonwort (m�nwûrt), n. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See . (b) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. Botrychium Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
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Moony (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to the moon.
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Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake.
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2. Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
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But soon the miscreant moony host
Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton.
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3. Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.
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Moony (?), prop. n. A follower of the Rev. Sun Myun Moon; a member of the Unification Church; -- often considered disparaging. [Also spelled Moonie.]
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Moor (m�r), n. [F. More, Maure, L. Maurus a Moor, a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Gr. May^ros; cf. may^ros black, dark. Cf. a dance, .] 1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
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2. (Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. “In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous.” Internat. Cyc.
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Moor, n. [OE. mor, AS. mōr moor, morass; akin to D. moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere. See a lake.] 1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
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In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.
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2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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Coloq. Moor buzzard (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Coloq. Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. -- Coloq. Moor cock (Zoöl.), the male of the or red grouse of Europe. -- Coloq. Moor coot . (Zoöl.) See . -- Coloq. Moor game . (Zoöl.) Same as . -- Coloq. Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe. -- Coloq. Moor hawk (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. -- Coloq. Moor hen . (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the . (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See . (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Coloq. Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). -- Coloq. Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).
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