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A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.…

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

sembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.…

The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

discuss; to propose for discussion. A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W. Hamilton.

A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.

A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.

Capable of being mooted.

A disputer of a mooted case.

One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.

A negro or negress. Shak.

See Blackamoor.

riginated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

Same as Homoplast.

Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.

The first month after marriage. Addison.

The Himalayan now partridge.

es of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow. [U. S.] [Written also muley.]