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{ mMolendinaceous (m�lĕndĭnāshŭs), molendinarious (m�lĕndĭnārĭŭs), } a. [L. molendinarius, fr. molendinum a mill, fr. molere to grind.] (Bot.) Resembling the sails of a windmill.
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moleskin (mōlskĭn), n. 1. Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.
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2. A soft fabric having an adhesive backing, applied to the skin at points susceptible to abrasion, as on the feet, to prevent irritation or blistering during exercise, such as hiking.
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Molest (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Molested; p. pr. & vb. n. Molesting.] [F. molester, L. molestare, fr. molestus troublesome, fr. moles a heavy mass, load, burden. See 3d .] To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
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They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.
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Syn. -- To trouble; disturb; incommode; inconvenience; annoy; vex; tease.
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Molest, n. Molestation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Molestation (?), n. [Cf. F. molestation.] The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.
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molested adj. sexually abused.
Syn. -- assaulted, raped, fondled.
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Molester (?), n. One who molests.
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Molestful (?), a. Troublesome; vexatious. [R.]
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{ Molestie, Molesty (?) }, n. [L. molestia.] Molestation. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Molewarp (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Moliminous (?), a. [L. molimen a great exertion; moles a heavy mass.] Of great bulk or consequence; very important. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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Moline (?), n. [L. molina mill, fr. molere to grind. See .] The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
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Coloq. Cross moline (Her.), a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions.
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Molinism (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.
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Molinist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.
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Moll (?), a. [G., fr. L. mollis soft, tender, elegiac. Cf. .] (Mus.) Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
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Mollah (?), n. [Ar. maulā, commonly mollāin Turkey.] 1. One of the higher order of Turkish; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also mullah and moolah.]
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2. A title of respect used in Islamic countries for one who is learned in Islamic law; a teacher or expounder of Islamic law.
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Molle (?), a. [See .] (Mus.) Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.
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Mollebart (?), n. An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [Written also mollebært and mouldebært.] Simmonds.
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Mollemoke (?), n. [Sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Æstrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See . [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke, etc.]
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Mollient (?), a. [L. molliens, p. p. of mollire to soften, fr. mollis soft.] Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.
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Molliently, adv. Assuagingly.
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Mollifiable (?), a. Capable of being mollified.
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Mollification (?), n. [LL. mollificatio; cf. F. mollification.] The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.
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Mollifier (?), n. One who, or that which, mollifies. Bacon.
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Mollify (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mollified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mollifying (?).] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See , , v. t., and .] 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
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With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.
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2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
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Mollinet (?), n. [Cf. .] A little mill.
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Mollipilose (?), a. [L. mollis soft + pilosus hairy.] (Zoöl.) Having soft hairs; downy.
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Mollities (?), n. [L., softness.] (Med.) Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.
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Mollitude (?), n. [L. mollitudo, fr. mollis soft.] Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.]
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Mollusc (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Mollusca (?), prop. n. pl. [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, a phylum including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda, and Pelecyopoda (syn. Bivalvia, formerly called Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera). These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.
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☞ Formerly the Brachiopoda, Bryzoa, and Tunicata were united with the Lamellibranchiata in an artificial group called Acephala, which was also included under Mollusca. See .
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Molluscan (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n. A mollusk; one of the Mollusca.
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Molluscoid (?), a. [Mollusca + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea. -- n. One of the Molluscoidea.
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Molluscoidal (?), a. (Zoöl.) Molluscoid.
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Molluscoidea (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.
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☞ Originally the Tunicata were included under Molluscoidea, from which they are known to differ widely in structure and embryology. Molluscoidea were formerly considered a subdivision of Mollusca, but they are now known to have more relationship with Annelida than with Mollusca.
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Molluscous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Molluscan.
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Molluscum (?), n. [NL. See .] (Med.) A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals. Dunglison.
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Mollusk (?), n. [F. mollusque, L. mollusca a kind of soft nut with a thin shell, fr. molluscus soft, mollis soft. See .] (Zoöl.) One of the Mollusca. [Written also mollusc.]
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Molly (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Molly, n. A pet or colloquial name for Mary.
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Coloq. Molly cottontail . (Zoöl.) See . -- Coloq. Molly Maguire (mȧgwīr); pl. (-gwīrz). (a) A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs. Its members disguised themselves in the dress of women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.
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mollycoddle n. a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.
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mollycoddle v. t. To pamper or coddle.
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Molly-mawk (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Moloch (?), prop. n. [Heb. molek king.] 1. (Script.) The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.
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2. (Zoöl.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.
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{ Molokane (?), Molokany }, n. pl. [Russ. molokane.] See .
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Molosse (?), n. See .
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Molosses (?), n. Molasses. [Obs.]
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Molossine (?), n. (Zoöl.) A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.
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Molossus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, prop., Molossian, belonging to the Molossians, a people in the eastern part of Epirus.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A foot of three long syllables. [Written also molosse.]
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Molotov n. a city in the European part of Soviet Russia.
Syn. -- Perm.
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Molotov cocktail n. A home-made incendiary device consisting of a bottle filled with gasoline, and a cloth wick. The wick is lighted, and the bottle thrown at a target, such as a vehicle, where it may shatter and spread intense flames over the vehicle, destroying or damaging it.
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Molt (?), obs. imp. of . Chaucer. Spenser.
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{ Molt, Moult } (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See to molt, and cf. , v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.
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{ Molt, Moult, } v. t. To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
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{ Molt, Moult, } n. The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
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Moltable (?), a. Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]
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Molten (?), a. [See .] 1. Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.
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2. Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
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molting n. The act or process by which an animal molts; especially, the periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles, or feathers in birds.
Syn. -- molt, moult, moulting, ecdysis.
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Molto (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.
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Moly (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �.] 1. A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe. Milton.
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2. (Bot.) A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.
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Molybdate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of molybdic acid.
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Molybdena (?), n. [L. molybdaena galena, Gr. �, fr. � lead.] (Min.) See .
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Molybdenite (?), n. [Cf. F. molybdénite. See .] (Min.) A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
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Molybdenous (?), a. (Chem.) See .
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Molybdenum (?), n. [NL.: cf. F. molybdène. See .] (Chem.) A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic number 42. Atomic weight 95.94.
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Molybdic (?), a. [Cf. F. molybdique. See .] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.
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Molybdite (?), n. (Min.) Molybdic ocher.
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Molybdous (?), a. [See .] Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.
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Mome (?), n. [Cf. , .] A dull, silent person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Moment (?), n. [F. moment, L. momentum, for movimentum movement, motion, moment, fr. movere to move. See , and cf. , .] 1. A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at that very moment.
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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52.
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2. Impulsive power; force; momentum.
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The moments or quantities of motion in bodies. Berkley.
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Touch, with lightest moment of impulse,
His free will. Milton.
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3. Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.
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Matters of great moment. Shak.
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It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others. Bentley.
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4. An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
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5. (Math.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. [Obs.]
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6. (Mech.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
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Coloq. Moment of a couple (Mech.), the product of either of its forces into the perpendicular distance between them. -- Coloq. Moment of a force . (Mech.) (a) With respect to a point, the product of the intensity of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of direction of the force. (b) With respect to a line, the product of that component of the force which is perpendicular to the plane passing through the line and the point of application of the force, into the shortest distance between the line and this point. (c) With respect to a plane that is parallel to the force, the product of the force into the perpendicular distance of its point of application from the plane. -- Coloq. Moment of inertia , of a rotating body, the sum of the mass of each particle of matter of the body into the square of its distance from the axis of rotation; -- called also moment of rotation and moment of the mass. -- Coloq. Statical moment , the product of a force into its leverage; the same as moment of a force with respect to a point, line, etc. -- Coloq. Virtual moment . See under .
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Syn. -- Instant; twinkling; consequence; weight; force; value; consideration; signification; avail.
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Momental (?), a. [Cf. OF. momental.] [Obs.] 1. Lasting but a moment; brief.
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Not one momental minute doth she swerve. Breton.
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2. Important; momentous.
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3. (Mech.) Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.
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Momentally, adv. For a moment. [Obs.]
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{ Momentaneous (?), Momentany (?), } a. [L. momentaneus: cf. F. momentané.] Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. “Momentany as a sound.” Shak.
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Momentarily (?), adv. 1. Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
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2. In a moment; in the immediate future.
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Momentariness, n. The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.
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Momentary (?), a. [L. momentarius. See .] Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
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This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.
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Momently (?), adv. 1. For a moment.
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2. In a moment; every moment; momentarily.
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Momentous (?), a. [Cf. L. momentosus rapid, momentary.] Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Momentously, adv. -- Momentousness, n.
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momentousness n. utmost importance.
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Momentum (?), n.; pl. L. Momenta (#), F. Momentums (#). [L. See .] 1. (Mech.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied by the velocity; impetus.
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2. Essential element, or constituent element.
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I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate propositions. Sir W. Hamilton.
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3. A property of an activity or course of events, viewed as analogous to forward motion or to physical momentum (def. 1), such that the activity is believed to be able to continue moving forward without further application of force or effort; -- often used to describe an increase in the acquisition of public support for a purpose; as, as, the petition drive gained momentum when it was mentioned in the newspapers.
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Momier (?), n. [F. mômier, fr. OF. momer, mommer, to mumm, to mask one's self.] A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.
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Mommery (?), n. See . Rowe.
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Momordica prop. n. A genus of Old World tropical vine.
Syn. -- genus Momordica.
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Momos prop. n. (Gr. Myth.) The god of blame and mockery; Momus.
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Momot (?), n. [Momot and motmot, the native American name.] (Zoöl.) See .
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Momotus prop. n. The type genus of the Momotidae.
Syn. -- genus Momotus.
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Momus (?), prop. n. [Gr. � blame, ridicule, Momus.] (Gr. Myth.) The god of mockery and censure.
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Mon (mŏn), n. [Jap., usually translated as crest.] (Japan) The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used.
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Mon- (?). Same as .
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Mona (?), n. [CF. Sp. & Pg. mona, fem. of mono a monkey, ape.] (Zoöl.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
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Monachal (?), a. [L. monachus a monk: cf. F. monacal. See .] Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
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Monachism (?), n. [Cf. F. monachisme.] The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
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monacid (?), a. [Mon- + acid.] (Chem.) Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by an acidic atom or radical.
Syn. -- monoacid, monoacidic, monacidic.
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2. Capable of neutralizing one equivalent of a monobasic acid; -- said of bases, and of certain metals.
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monacid (?), n. (Chem.) An acid having one replaceable hydrogen atom.
Syn. -- monoacid.
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Monad (?), n. [L. monas, -adis, a unit, Gr. �, �, fr. monos alone.] 1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
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2. (Philos. of Leibnitz) 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.
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3. (Zoöl.) One of the smallest flagellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
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4. (Biol.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
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5. (Chem.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.
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Coloq. Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality.
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