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A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.

A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

Shortsighted; purblind.

Mopish. [R.]

Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.

One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

A moppet.

Shortsighted; mope-eyed.

The long handle of a mop.

A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO

A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors. --Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.

The art of producing photographs in colors.

A photolithograph printed in colors.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.