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sing. of Mores.

atterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

In the manner of a mosaic.

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.

. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.

gth, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.

See Muzzle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

To go, or move (in a certain manner); -- usually with out, off, along, etc. [Colloq.] E. N. Wescott.

See Mosque.

A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

Same as Mosasaurus.

A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also mosk.]

ith some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds…