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That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.

and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker.

To become malt; also, to make grain into malt. Mortimer.

Mortar. [Obs.] Holland.

the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shak.

weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).

ch as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.

r. It burns at the rate of one yard in thirteen seconds, and is used as priming for heavy mortars, fireworks, etc. -- Slow match, slightly twisted hempen rope soaked in a solution of limewater and saltpeter or washed in a lye of water and wood ashes. It burns at the rate of four or five inches an hour, and is used for…

the Weather prove frosty to mellow it [the ground], they do not plow it again till April. Mortimer. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. J. C. Shairp.

add to. Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit. Mortimer. You mend the jewel by the wearing it. Shak.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. Mortimer.

The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

Mortling. [Eng.] Ainsworth.

A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer. [Obs.] [Written also morrimal and mortmal.] Chaucer.

The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort. Chaucer.

ent in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

Those of a certain name; a race; a family. The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. Motley.