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The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, mollifies. Bacon.

en; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.

A little mill.

Having soft hairs; downy.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.

Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.]

Same as Mollusk.

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 sh…

Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n.

Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea. -- n.

Molluscoid.

f Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.

Molluscan.

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.

One of the Mollusca. [Written also mollusc.]

Same as Mollemoke.

See Mollemoke.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

See Raskolnik.