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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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20,364 words match “MO”

MOIRE METALLIQUE n.

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

MOIST a. 3 definitions

Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.

MOISTEN v. 2 definitions

To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon.

One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.

Full of moisture. [R.]

Without moisture; dry. [R.]

The quality or state of being moist.

MOISTURE n. 2 definitions

A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon.

MOISTURELESS a.

Without moisture.

MOITHER v. 2 definitions

To perplex; to confuse. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb.

Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridæ, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food. Also, any of numerous other fishes of similar appearance but belonging to ot…

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

MOKE n. 2 definitions

A donkey. [Cant] Thackeray.

Misty; dark; murky; muggy. [Obs.]

See Sunfish, 1.

MOLAR a. 3 definitions

Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Carpenter.

Same as 2d Molar.

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.