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A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a moranie.

ng, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

A moralizer. [Obs.] Shak.

A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.

One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.

The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right. The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all t…

The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.

One who moralizes.

In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South.

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

A salt of moric acid.

A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

egal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.