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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 wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

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

A lover; a man enamored.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.

current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opnions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.