Search the Dictionary

Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.

One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also moolah.]

Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.

consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [Written also mollebært and mouldebært.] Simmonds.

antic, and several species of Æstrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar. [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke, etc.]

Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.

Assuagingly.

Capable of being mollified.

The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, mollifies. Bacon.

en; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.

A little mill.

Having soft hairs; downy.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.

Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.]

Same as Mollusk.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which in…

Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n.

Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea. -- n.

Molluscoid.