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A bugbear; false terror. [Obs.] Jonhson.

sed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.

The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.

A Mormon. -- a.

The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. [Obs.] "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

ining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. -- Morning gun, a gun fired at the first st…

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

Morning time. [Poetic]

Towards the morn. [Poetic] And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.

A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [Obs.]

An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.

An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.

Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts.