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More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.

To model; also, to modulate. [Obs.] Sandys. Drayton.

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

ed, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold. Milton.

ngs. -- Molding, or Moulding, mill, a mill for shaping timber. -- Molding, or Moulding, sand (Founding), a kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed. -- Mortar board. (a) A small square board…

d ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.

d inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army. And the muster was thirty thousands of men. Wyclif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.

A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter.

The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.

A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois.

A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.

A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles.

A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.

y; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield. -- To hit the nail on the head, to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in the right way.

ca, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidæ.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to. Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.

the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.