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See Molossus.

Molasses. [Obs.]

A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.

A foot of three long syllables. [Written also molosse.]

of Melt. Chaucer. Spenser.

The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]

n a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.

A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.

A salt of molybdic acid.

See Molybdenite.

occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.

See Molybdous.

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 weight 95.9.

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.

Molybdic ocher.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.

A dull, silent person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Spenser.

A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52.