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A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid.

A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.

A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

The dotterel.

A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.

Designating an organic acid obtained from oil of ben. See Moringa.

Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.

Adynamia. [R.] Morin.

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. Milton .

A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, or Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.

ch used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.…

See Morintannic.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.

Incapable of being uttered. [Obs.] A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.

A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.