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A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A beast that has died of disease or by mischance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Morning. [Obs.] "White as morrow's milk." Bp. Hall. We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine. Chaucer.

uslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.

A word; hence, a motto; a device. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. Shak.

A small muff worn over the wrist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The state or power of being multipresent. The multipresence of Christ's body. Bp. Hall.

A multivocal word. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. Bp. Hall.

A silent, stupid person. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. Hall (1646).

a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. Old Rhyme. Halliwell.

slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box. See Musical box, under Musical. -- Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments. -- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. -- Music of the spheres, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial s…

A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.

Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam.

The act of borrowing or exchanging. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The summit of an eminence. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ime of greatest depression. The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe. Hallam. Nadir of the sun (Astron.), the axis of the conical shadow projected by the earth. Crabb.

ying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is. ix. 6.

Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.