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A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [Obs.]

e clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.

An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.

Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts.

Sourly; with sullen austerity.

s. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts.

Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

Moroseness. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

A philosophical or learned fool. [Obs.]

Morose. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.

A morate.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [R.] Galt.