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Sourly; with sullen austerity.

Sourness of temper; sulenness. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts.

Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

Moroseness. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

A philosophical or learned fool. [Obs.]

Morose. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.

A morate.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

The god of dreams.

To cover with a morphew. [Obs.]

Morphine.

opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

y one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny. Haeckel.

Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology. -- Mor`pho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.