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In a mortifying manner.

l, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon. Mortise and tenon (Carp.), made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively. -- Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and tenon. -- Mortise lock. See under Lock. -- Mortise…

An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling. [Eng.]

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

See Mormal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. [Obs.] Bacon.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.

A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.

See Morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Morning. [Obs.]

sing. of Mores.

atterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

In the manner of a mosaic.

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.

. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.