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d or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

A Moorish pike. [Obs.]

Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ay be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their ro…

siding over each country. Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris. Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. -- Coördinate conjunctions, conjunctions joining independent propositions. Rev. R. Morris.…

a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern Engl…

swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

n and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris.

ive in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.

A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.

Same as 1st Morris.

A morris dancer. [Obs.]

Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles. Nine men's morris. See Morris. -- Nine points circle (Geom.), a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides.…

oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

ting or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.

anguage, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to analytic language. R. Morris.