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To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

ike a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.

A dry measure, containing about a peck.

ve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.

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

uires (-gwirz). (a) A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs. Its members disguised themselves in the dress of women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in…

Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis. Moment of a couple (Mech.), the product of either of its forces into the perpendicular distance between them. -- Moment of a force. (Mech.) (a) With respect to a point, the product of the intensity of the force into the perpe…

itting jacket, worn by sailors. -- Monkey rail (Naut.), a second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship. -- Monkey shine, monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.] -- Monkey trick, a mischievous prank. Saintsbury. -- Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Monkey wrench, a wrench or span…

hwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.…

One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.

is, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky ja…

s in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxon…

need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it. -- No more, not anything more; nothing in addition. -- The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] Shak. "All cried, both less and more." Chaucer.

A person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.

A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.

One who pries about on the lookout for something.

some action. (b) To move a piece, as in a game. -- To be on the move, to bustle or stir about. [Colloq.]