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The era in use in Mohammedan countries. See Mohammedan year, below.

The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…

The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.

To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. [Written also Mahometanize.]

of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

pe Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. [Written also Mohegans.]

A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.

See Mohawk.

See Maholi.

A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also mhorr.]

A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21. Malcom.

The first month of the Mohammedan year. Whitworth.

To toil. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation. Shak. The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject. Addison.

To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.

A kind of high shoe anciently worn. [Written also moyle.]

A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.

The deity who assigns to every man his lot.

clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. Moire antique, a superior kind of thick moire.