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Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

A Masorite. [Written also Masorete, and Massorete.]

Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors. Masoretic points and accents, the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.

Same as Masorite.

rump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore. Swift.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

The wife of a mayor.

The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum. -- Mes`o*rec"tal, a.

One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.

A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

nus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.

See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)

A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. He gat more money. Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries. [Written also morelle.]

Moorland.