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Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.

One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

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

A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.

A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also mosk.]

A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer. [Written also mouezzin, mueddin, and muwazzin.]

An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Mohammedan.

Mohammedanism.

A Mohammedan; a Moslem.

Of, pertaining to, or like, the Mussulmans, or their customs: Mohammedan.

Mohammedan.

Mohammedanism.

One who worships false goods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak.

inally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.…

A desire or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world.

The ninth Mohammedan month.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. [Turkey.]

the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.