Old English | sp | English |
Mo | adv | More. |
Mo | phr | "Mo and Mo" - used to express a progressive increase in numbers; more and more. |
Mo | phr | "Mo or Less" - more or less. |
Mo | phr | "Without Mo" - only, alone. |
Moaks | n | A mash produced in the brewing process; a moaks. |
Moal | n | OE: mael, moal, language, speech, lede. |
Moch | n | A moth. |
Moan | n | A long, low sound made by a person expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure. 2. groan, wail, whimper, sob, cry, whine, howl, lament, lamentation, keen. 3. a sound resembling a human moan. sough, sigh, murmur, whisper, groan. 4. a complaint which is perceived as trivial and not taken seriously by others. 5. complaint, complaining, moans and groans, grouch, grumble, whine, whining, carping, muttering, murmur, murmuring, whispering; gripe, griping, bellyache, bitch, whinge, whingeing, beef, beefing. |
Moan | vb | Make a long, low sound expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure; groan, wail, whimper, sob, cry,lament whine, howl, keen. 2. make a sound resembling a human moan. 3. wail, whimper, sob, cry, whine, howl, keen, sough, sigh, murmur, whisper, groan. 4. complain or grumble, typically about something trivial. 5. complain, grouse, grouch, grumble, whine, carp, mutter, murmur, whisper. |
Moan | phr | "Moan and Groan" - complain, grumble. |
Moaner | n | |
Moanful | adj | |
Moaning | n | The utterance of a moan. |
Moaningly | adv | |
Moanish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a moan, or some aspect of it. 2. somewhat complaining or grumbling. |
Mold | n | See "mould" |
Mole | n | A discoloured spot on the skin, or linen, etc. 2. a mole. |
Mole-like | adj | Resembling a mole or discoloured spot on the skin. |
Mole-marked | adj | Marked or spotted with moles or blemishes. |
Molten | adj | Reduced to liquid by heating. |
Monday | n | The second day of the week; the day following Sunday. |
Monday | phr | "Monday Morning Feeling" - general apathy (on returning to work) after the weekend. |
Mondayish | adj | Suggestive of lethargy or disinclination after a busy or eventful weekend. 2. affected with the indisposition of Monday, often felt by clergymen , resulting from work on Sunday. 3. monday-morning blues. |
Mondayishness | n | State or condition of mondayitis, with lethargy and dis inclination. |
Mone | n | OE: gemana: mone, companionship, sexual intercourse, companion. |
Mone | vb | OE: munan- to think; to think, bear in mind, to mone, to make remembrance. |
Mong | n | A mingling, mixture. 2. social intercourse, commerce. 3. a crowd, a ming, a mong, a throng, a teem. 4. a mixture of different of meal (the precise application varying according to locality.) |
Mong | vb | To traffic, trade, barter, commerce, monger. 2. to mingle, to mix, to mong, knead. |
Monger | n | A dealer, trafficker, trader, a monger (from the C16th one who carries on a petty or disreputable business. 2. in modern times, includes dealers in all sorts of business, commerce and generally. 3. a retail dealer or mixer; formerly applied to every one who traded, whatever was the article he sold or mixed. The word remains in Ironmonger, Cheesemonger, Fishmonger; and might be advantageous combined with Love, as Lovemonger. |
Monger | sfx | A list of the monger or mongers include: apple-monger, balkmonger, barrow-monger, beer-monger, bloodmonger, bookmonger, boroughmonger, buttermonger, cheesemonger, clothes-monger, cloud-monger, coalmonger, cornmonger, deathmonger, dishmonger, doom-monger, dovemonger, eirmonger, fat-monger, fearmonger feathermonger, fishmonger, fleshmonger, foodmonger, foodfear-monger, garlic-monger, ghostmonger, god-monger, gossipmonger, gutmonger, hair-monger, hate-monger, horsemonger, housemonger, ironmonger, landmonger, ladymonger, lawmonger, liemonger (lie-monger), leasing-monger, lightmonger, lovemonger, maidenmonger, matchmonger, milestone-monger, mirthmonger, monkmonger, murder-monger, musselmonger, netmonger, news monger, oat-monger, owe-momger, pearmonger, sapmonger, seafood-monger, sharemonger, shellmonger, sickness-monger, smearmonger, spellmonger, starmonger, talemonger, talkmonger,timber-monger, tithe-monger, tray-monger, turdmonger, warmonger, watermonger, weasel-monger, weathermonger, wedding-monger, whiting-monger, wiremonger, witmonger, witchmonger, woemonger, wonder-monger, woodmonger, wordmonger, workmonger. |
Monger | vb | To work as a monger. |
Mongering | n | Trading, trafficking, dealing. |
Monging | n | Dealing, trading, trade, marketing, merchandizing. |
Monging-house | n | A wholesome outlet or shop. |
Mongle | vb | To mix. |
Mongrel | n | A dog of no definable breed or type. 2. any plant or animals resulting from the crossing of different breeds. 3. an offensive term for a person of mixed race. OE???????? |
Mongrel | vb | To make a mongrel or hybrid. |
Mongrel | adj | Of mixed origin race or character. |
Mongreldom | n | The realm or world of mongrels. |
Mongrelish | adj | Somewhat mixed or crossbred. |
Mongrelly | adj | Resembling a mongrel. |
Mongster | n | A female monger. |
Monk | n | A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. 2. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lives communally. 3. a male who leads an isolated life ; a loner, a hermit. 4. an unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships. 5. (sl) a judge. |
Monk | vb | To someone a monk. 2. to cause to look like a monk. |
Monk | phr | "To Monk It" - to become a monk. |
Monk-child | adj | A child brought up to be a monk. |
Monkcraft | n | Monkish practice or policy based on unworthy motives. |
Monkdom | n | The condition of a monk. 2. monks or the clergy collectively. |
Monkfish | n | The angel fish. |
Monkhood | n | The state or quality of being a monk or belonging to a religious order. 2. the monastic life, monasticism; monks collectively. 3. the religious or spiritual world. |
Monkhouse | n | A monastery or monk-house. |
Monking | n | Living like a monk. |
Monkish | adj | Belonging to monks, monastic. 2. used, done, performed by monks. 3. suited to the establishment of monks. 4. resembling or pertaining to monks. 5. in a deprecatory sense: having the evil characteristics of a monk. 6. having the features of a monk or monastic life. |
Monkishly | adv | Of, relating, or characteristic of monks or monasticism. 2. inclining to self-denial; ascetically |
Monkishness | n | The state or condition of being a monk. |
Monk-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a monk, in some respect. |
Monkliness | n | State or condition of being a monk or monasticism. 2. monkly. |
Monkly | adj | Of or pertaining to a monk. |
Monk-made | adj | Made or created by monks. |
Monk-monger | n | Favourer of monks or monasticism. 2. monger favourable of monks or monasticism. |
Monk-ridden | adj | Full of monks. |
Moonkshood | n | Wolf's bane; aconitum napellus. |
Monkship | n | The monastic system; monks collectively; the personality of a monk. |
Month | n | A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon, in the gregorian calendar there are twelve. 2. a period of 30 days or some alternation thereof. 3. a woman's period; menstrual discharge. |
Month | phr | A Month's Mind" - properly the requiem Mass said for the deceased on the 30th day after burial or death. 2. an eager desire within. 3. to have a strong expectation. |
Month | phr | "From Month to Month." -- continuously from month to the next. |
Month | phr | "Month About" - during alternate months. |
Month | phr | "Month After month" -each month as sequel to the preceding one, without suggestion of continuity. 2. each successive month (without a suggestion of cessation). |
Month | phr | "Month by Month" in each successive month, without the suggestion of cessation. |
Month | phr | "Month in Month Out" - constantly, all the time. |
Month | phr | "Month of Sundays" - an indefinitely prolonged, or very long or impossibly long time or period.. |
Month | phr | "This Day's Month" - at a time a month after the day indicated. |
Month | phr | "Within a Month's Day" - the corresponding day of the following calendar month. |
Month-brother | n | Mythical creatures that make dreams come true. |
Month-day | adj | in computing, an immutable date-time object that represents a combination of month to day of month. |
Month-end | adj | Processes and activities carried out for the last time of a particular month. |
Monther | n | (In combination) a period of a certain number of months, as 'six-monther.' |
Monthish | adj | Of or pertaining to a month; monthly. |
Monthling | n | A month old child. 2. anything lasting a month. |
Monthlong | adj | Of a month's duration. |
Monthly | adv | Done monthly or recurring once a month; monthish. 2. pertaining or relating to a month; payable every month. 3. continuing or enduring for a month. 4. a literary magazine published once each month, a monthly. 5. once a month, every month, month by month. 6. after the manner of a lunatic. |
Month's mind | n | An old custom of commemoration of a deceased person by the celebration of masses etc., on a day once a month from the of his or her death. Nb: used playfully as a synonym for mind. used allusively as a liking, fancy, inclination, expectation, as in: "a month's mind for living in durham." & " to be in a month's mind." - to have a strong expectation. |
Month-man | n | A man employed at a greater wage for one month (during or at a time of certain, often yearly, event). |
Month-old | adj | One month old, as a recently born child. 2. a period of one month's duration. |
Mood | n | State of mind, heart, thought, feeling. 2. fierce courage, spirit, stoutness, pride (note: specific adj. colouring.) 3. passionate grief. 4. a frame of mind, a state of mind, feelings: or humour, fit of temper, disposition at a particular time. 5. th moods.e distinction of meaning expressed by different |
Mood | vb | Reflect moodily. |
Mood | phr | "In a Black Mood" - angry, ill-tempered disposition. |
Mond | phr | "In a Mood" - bad-tempered. |
Mood | phr | "In No Mood for" - disinclined. |
Mood | phr | "In the Mood" (for something): disposed, inclined, receptive. 2. fit of variable or unaccountable temper; esp. melancholy, gloomy, or bad-tempered fits. |
Mood | phr | "Mar One's Mood." to change one's or have one's mood change negatively. 2. to mean or change one's mood negatively. |
Mood | phr | "Mood and Might" - mind and main. |
Mood | phr | "Mourn One's Mood." -- in a sad, grieving, mourning mood. |
Mood board | n | A type of collage consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition. It can be based upon a set topic or can be any material chosen at random. |
Mooded | adj | Having a mood or moods, esp. of a specific kind. 2. formed to convey or express a particular mood. |
Moodily | adv | Bravely, boldly, haughtily, angrily. 2. in a moody or sullen manner. |
Moodiness | n | A state of being moody. 2. temporary depresssion of spirits; cautiousness. 3. pride, passion, anger, sullenness, abstraction, fickleness, gloom, melancholy of mood. |
Moodish | adj | Characterized by mood, fitful, capricious, angry. |
Moodishly | adv | In a moody manner. |
Moodishness | n | The state or condition of being moody. |
Moodring | n | A ring that has a thermo-chronic element, such as liquid crystal, that changes colors based on the temperature of a finger of a wearer. |
Mood-swing | n | An abrupt change of mood or disposition. |
Moody | adj | Brave, bold, proud. 2. proud, haughty, arrogant, head-strong, stubborn, wilful, obstinate. 3. angry, given to anger, wrathful, or change of mood.. 4. subject to, or indulging in moods of ill-humour, depression or the like; ill-humoured. 5. peevish, gloomy, sullen, melancholy. |
Moody | phr | "Lot of Old Moody" - to deceive by means of flattery. |
Mool | n | Earth in a graveyard; mould. |
Moon | n | The largest satellite of Earth. 2. any natural satellite of a planet. 3.(literary) a month, particularly a lunar month. 4. a crescent-like outwork in a fortification. 5. the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun. 5. a large round object like the moon that circles around a planet other than the Earth. 6. an indefinite usually extended period of time: a time of many moons. 7. naked buttocks. |
Moon | vb | To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. 2. (usually followed by over or after) to fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. 3. to spend time idly, be absent minded. 4. to expose to the rays of the Moon. 5. to expose the buttocks. |
Moon | phr | "Believe that the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - believe in absurdity. |
Moon | phr | "Below the Moon" - sublunary, on earth. 2. be under the moon. |
Moon | phr | "Be Over the Moon" - (fig.) - be very excited, happy or delighted. |
Moon | phr | "Be Under the Moon" - be on earth. 2. sublunary. |
Moon | phr | "Beyond the Moon" - in outer space. 2. go to extravagant lengths. |
Moon | phr | "Cast Beyond the Moon" - to form wild conjectures. |
Moon | phr | "Dark of the Moon" - period of time between the full moon and the new moon. |
Moon | phr | "Go Beyond the Moon" : to go to extra lengths. |
Moon | phr | "I Know No More of it, Than the Man in the Moon" - I know nothing about the matter. |
Moon | phr | "Island of the Moon" - Madagscar, so named by its inhabitants. |
Moon | phr | "Man in the Moon" - the fancied appearance of the face in the disk of the full moon, caused by te shadows, lines, spots, etc on the surface. |
Moon | phr | "Many Moons Ago" - a long time ago. |
Moon | phr | "Moon About"- be apathetic, gloomy, dazed, mope. |
Moon | phr | "Once in a Blue Moon" - very seldom, very rarely. |
Moon | phr | "Over the Moon " to be very happy or delighted; extremely happy; ecstatic. |
Moon | phr | "Reach for the Moon" - to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain. |
Moon | phr | "Shoot for the Moon" - make a moonlit flit. |
Moon | phr | "The Old Moon is in the New Moon Arms" - the appearance of the moon during the first quarter in which the dark portion of the orb is made faintly luminous by earth's light. |
Moon | phr | "There is a Moon, there is no Moon" - the moon is visible (not visible), at the time and in the place indicated or implied. |
Moon | phr | "Wish for the Moon ": to ask for or wish for the unattainable. |
Moon-beam | n | A ray of moonlight. |
Moon-blind | adj | Of intellect: purblind. |
Moon-blindness | n | A form of blindness erroneously attributed to moonlight; nyctalopia. 2. the condition of being moon-blind. |
Moonblood | n | Menstrual blood. |
Moon boot???????? | n | A type of footwear made popular in the 1970s, with a thin rubber outsole and no distinct left or right foot. 2. a thickly-padded boot designed for use in low temperatures. 3. (in Australia)- a large hard plastic to protect a broken foot or ankle while it heals. |
Moon-born | adj | Born or created under the influence of the moon. |
Moon-bow | n | A lunar rainbow. |
Moon-calf | n | An abortive shapeless fleshy mass with the womb; a false or phantom pregnancy (regarded as being produced by the influences of the moon.) 2. a misshapen birth, monstrosity. 3. one born with an undeveloped brain; a congenital idiot, a born fool. 4. an absented-minded fool. 5. 'child of the moon' - fickle, unstable person; an animal thought to inhabit the moon. |
Moonchild | n | One who is born under the sign of cancer. |
Moon-cloud | n | Clouds obscuring the moon. |
Moon-cold | adj | Chilling and stark as the appearance of the moon. |
Mooncraft | n | A spacecraft for travel to the moon. |
Moon-curser | n | Sometime who imports or smuggles goods without paying duties (usually done at night, especially moonless ones). 2. one who doesn't want the moon to shine on nights when he is carrying out illegal activities. |
Moon-dew | n | Moonshine or home-brewed spirituous liquor made at night (under the moon). |
Moon-dog | n | Of a dog that bays the moon. |
Moon-drenched | adj | Drenched by moonlight. |
Moon-drop | n | A vaporous foam supposed anciently to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and objects, when influenced by incantations. |
Moondust | n | A fine regolith found on surface of the moon. |
Mooned | adj | Resemblin a moon. |
Mooner | n | One who moons about |
Moon-eye | n | To have the eyes wide open, as in infatuation, wonder, or grief. 2. to see poorly during the day. 3. a disease which affects horses' eyes. |
Moon-eyed | adj | Having the eyes wide open, as in infatuation, wonder, or grief. 2. to see poorly during the day. |
Moon-flight | n | A flight or journey to the Moon. |
Moon-folk | n | Persons 'affected' by the moon; crazy, |
Moon-gleam | n | The shining of the moon. |
Moon-glow | n | Light thrown out by the moon. |
Moon-god | n | The deity associated with the moon, such as ????? |
Mooning | n | Action of the exposing one's buttock. |
Moonish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the moon. 2. influenced by the moon; acting as if under the influenced the moon; changeable, fickle, erratic, listless, aimless. |
Moonland | n | The moon itself. |
Moonlander | n | One who lands on the moon. |
Moonlanding | n | The act of landing on the moon. |
Moonless | adj | Lacking or without a moon. 2. a night where the moon is hidden by clouds. |
Moonlessly | adv | In a moonless way. 2. without a moon or moons. |
Moonlessness | n | The quality of being moonless. 2. an absence of a (visible) moon. |
Moonlight | n | Something that resembles a moon: as a highly translucent spot on old porcelain. 2. lunule, lit or lighted by or of the moon. |
Moonlight | vb | To do work on the side (at a secondary job) often in the evening or during the night. 2. (by extension) - to engage in an activity other than that one is known for. |
Moon-lighted | adj | Having two paid occupations, one by day and the other at night. |
Moon-lighter | n | One who has two paid occupations, one by day and the other at night. |
Moonlighting | n | The practice of working at a secondary job, often in the evening or during the night. 2. the practice (by extension) of engaging in an activity other that the one he or she is known for. |
Moonlight-wanderer | n | One who makes a hurried departure by night to avoid paying a debt. |
Moon-like | adj | Like or resembling the moon is some aspect or characteristic. |
Moonliness | n | Like the moon. 2. in the manner of a moon. |
Mooniness | n | Quality or condition of being lunar, selene or moony. |
Moonling | n | Simpleton, lunatic, idiot. 2. dweller on the moon. 3. an astronaut. |
Moonlit | adj | Illuminated or lit by the moon. |
Moonly | adv | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the moon, lunar. |
Moon-madness | n | Lunacy, insanity, moon-madness. |
Moon-man | n | One whose occupation is pursued by moonlight. 2. one who robs by moonlight. 3. gipsy. 4. an astronaut. |
Moon-mist | n | The mist around the moon. |
Moon-mouth | n | A lunar month. |
Moonquake | n | A quake or series of vibration on the moon, similar to an earthquake but usually of a very low magnitude. |
Moonrat | n | "Echinorex gymnura' a large South-east Asian insectivore that is essentially a primitive tropical hedgehog with a long tail and fur instead of spikes. |
Moonrise | n | The time at which the moon rise. |
Moon-rising | n | The rising of the moon. |
Moon-roof | n | Another term for a sunroof. |
Moonsail | n | A light square sail set above a sky-sail and carried by some clipper ships in light winds. |
Moonrune(s) | n | An incomprehensible writing script (subjective). |
Moon-set | n | The setting of the moon; the time of the moon's setting. |
Moon-setting | n | The setting in place of the moon. 2. the time of the setting of the moon. |
Moon-shadow | n | The shadow of the moon. |
Moon-shaft | n | A ray of moonlight. |
Moonshine | n | A mere pretense; an illusive shadow, as if substituting moonshine for sunshine. 2. home-brewed spirituous liquor. 3. fantastic ideas. |
Moon-shiner | n | One who smuggles; a smuggler. 2. one who makes home-brewed spirituous liquor for sale. |
Moon-shining | n | To distill illegally liquor, especially whisky. |
Moonshiny | adj | Glowing with silvery light; fantastic. |
Moonship | n | A spaceship designed to travel to the moon. |
Moon-shot | n | The launching of a spacecraft to or towards the moon. |
Moon's man | n | One under the influence of the moon. |
Moonspeak | n | Any confusing foreign language. |
Moonstone | n | Name for some varities of adularia and albite. Nb: the moonstone of the ancients was probably: "selenite." 2. feldspar of a pearly appearance. |
Moonstricken | adj | Dazed or distracted with romantic sentiment. 2. mentally deranged; crazy. |
Moon-struck | adj | Mentally deranged; lunatic. |
Moon-tide | n | The tide or period when the moon is visible. |
Moon-wake | n | "The Moon-wake over the Waters"- the track made by the moon on water. 2. moon-wake. |
Moon-walk | n | Act of walking or visiting the moon. 2. a dance movement made popular by the Michael Jackson. |
Moon-walker | n | A person who walks on the moon. 2. a person who dances the moonwalk. 3. a sleep walker (rare). |
Moon-walking | n | The act of walking on the moon by an astronaut. |
Moonwards | adv | Towards the moon: eyes turned moonwards. |
Moon-wise | adj | Learned in things about the moon. |
Moonwiser | n | An instrument for finding the position of the man. |
Moonwort | n | Botrychium lunarian. |
Moony | adj | Dreamy and unaware of one's surroundings; for example because one is in love; moonstruck; vacant, silly. 2. like moonlight or giving out light resembling moonlight. 3. rounded or crescent shaped. |
Moon-year | n | A lunar year. |
Moor | n | A tract of open, wild upland, especially. when covered by heather. 2. a tract of moorland preserved for game-hunting. 3. a fen; marsh, bog. |
Moor-bred | adj | Born and living in the moor. |
Moor-earth | n | Peaty soil. |
Moor-fen | n | A marsh, wetland, bog. |
Moorish | adj | Somewhat resembling or characteristic of moorland. 2. of a moor. 6. soil: boggy, swampy, spongy, soft. 3. of or pertaining to a moor. 4. abounding in moor. 5. characteristic of a moor. 6. belonging to a moor. 7. inhabiting or growing on a moor |
Moorishly | adv | In a moorish manner. |
Moorishness | n | Marshy or peaty in quality. |
Moorland | n | A vast or extensive region of moor or heather. 2. uncultivated land, chiefly fenland. 3. country consisting of moors. 4. land abounding in heather; a heath. |
Moorlander | n | One who lives on a moorland. |
Moorman | n | One who inhabits or lives on a moorland. 2. an official who has charge of a moor. |
Moor-side | adv | On the side of the moor. |
Moorstone | n | A type of granite stone abundant in Cornwall. |
Moorwort | n | A low, smooth shrub (Andromeda polifolia) of the heath family, with narrow, thick evergreen leaves, growing in wet bogs. |
Moory | adj | Of or pertaining to waste land, marsh or mountain. 2. marshy, fen-like, growing in a marsh or fen. 3. having the characteristics of a moor. 4. abounding in heath. |
Moot | n | A meeting, encounter, assembly of people, esp.,one forming a court of judicature. 2. a place where the meeting is held. 3. the witenagemot, folk-mote, hundred-mote. 4. litigation, the action of law: a plea, accusation. 5.argument, discussion, disputation, talking; undecided. 6. the the discussion of a hypothetical case by students of universities where law is studied. 7. in USA, (law) having no practical significance. |
Moot | vb | To speak, converse, say, utter, dispute, debate, discuss etc. 2. to argue, plead, esp, . in a law court or case. 3. to debate in an imaginary law case, as done by university law students. 4. to argue a point. 5. to raise, bring forward a subject for discussion. |
Moot | adj | That can be argued or debated. 2. not decided, doubtful, mooted in point. |
Moot-bell | n | A bell to summons people to a moot or assembly. |
Mooter | n | One who moots, such as speaker who argues or discusses points of law, debates or argument in general. 3. a lawyer who argues a case in a court of law. 4. a pleader of a case; one who pleads or proposes. |
Moot hall | n | A town hall; a judgement hall. 2. the inn court where the moot cases were held. |
Moot-hill | n | A hill (also a mote-hill) on which the moot or assembly was held; the Icelandic parliament or moot: "The Atheling." |
Moot-house | n | A moot hall. |
Mooting | n | The action of the moot, discussion, debate, in later use meaning a forensic discussion. 2. a contest or pleading. 3. a discussion of an imaginary case by university law students. 4. action of propounding for discussion. 5. taking part in a moot. |
Mootliness | n | Hypothesis, debate. argument. |
Mootman | n | An official or officer of the moot. |
Mootness | n | Of a legal case or question: the fact or condition of being hypothetical. |
Moot-stow | n | a place where the moot or assembly was held. |
More | adj | The comparative form of many: in greater number. 2. the comparative form of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. |
More | adv | To a greater degree or extent. 2. (now poetic) in negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more; again. [from 10thc.] 3. used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]; more or less; more so. |
More | prn | A greater quantity, number, or amount. 2. |
More | n | An extra amount or extent. |
More | n | From O.E., moru (“carrot, parsnip”) akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), 2.(obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. 3.(dialectal) a root; stock. 4. plant; wort. 5. the more-beam, or mulberry bush. 6. a root of a tree; a tree stump |
More | vb | To root up, dig up. |
More | adv | To or in a greater extent or degree: loved him even more. 2. used to form the comparative of many adjectives and adverbs: more difficult; more softly. 3. in addition: phoned twice more. 4. moreover; furthermore |
More | n | The morebeam or mulberry bush. |
More | phr | "And What's More" - and in addition. |
More | phr | "And Yet Moreover" - that is not all there is, yet more is to be said. 2. moreover than this. |
More | phr | "Be More" - count for more. 3. be of a greater importance. |
More | phr | "Be No More" - be dead. |
More | phr | "More and Less" - altogether, entirely. |
More | phr | "More and More" - in a increasing degree. |
More | phr | "More Dead than Alive" - in a physical condition owing to illness, shock, injury. |
More | phr | "More Haste, Less Speed" - the faster you try to do something, the more likely you are to make mistakes that make you take longer than it would had you planned it'. 2. if you rush things you do them wrong and it takes longer to complete them.. |
More | phr | "More In It Than Meets the Eye" - more complicated or invovled than one might at first supposed. |
More | phr | "More Like It" - nearer to what is needed or required. |
More | phr | "More Means Worse" - allowing more people to have access to public facilities leading to lowering of the standards in education, arts, products, etc. |
More | phr | "More Of" - to a greater extent. |
More | phr | "More Often Than Not" - more than or at least half the time. |
More | phr | "More or Less" - in a greater or smaller degree. 2. approximately; as an estimate. |
More | phr | "More Sinned Against than Sinning" - having suffered more or greater wrongs than one has committed. |
More | phr | "More So" - of the same kind to a greater degree. |
More | phr | "More So In That" - especially because. |
More | phr | "More Than Anything Else in the World' - very much; above all. |
More | phr | "More Than a Little Bit" - quite, considerably (drunk, excited) |
More | phr | "More Than Enough" - considerably, a great deal, too much, too many. |
More | phr | "More Than Ever (before)" - to a greater degree, more often, than previously. |
More | phr | "More Than Glad (too do something)" - extremely glad about; only too glad to do. 2. most willing or eager to do something. |
More | phr | "More Than Likely" - very probable, probably. |
More | phr | "More Than Once" - quite frequently. |
More | phr | "More Than One Can Say for" - very deeply, keenly (missed). 2. certainly not true of, or applicable to a person or thing in question. |
More | phr | "More Than One Can Shake a Stick at" - an immense amount. |
More | phr | "More the Merrier" - enjoyment will grow in proportion to the number of people taking part. 2. anybody/anyone one is welcome. |
More | phr | "More the Merrier, the Better the Fare" - |
More | phr | "More Than Welcome" - warmly and hospitably invited or received in somebody's home, a company etc. 2. great appreciated and much needed. |
More | phr | "Neither More than Less Than" - exatly, precisely, that and nothing else. |
More | phr | "No More" - no longer. |
More | phr | "Some More" - something in additional. |
More | phr | "The More One Has the More One Wants" - self-explanatory or obvious in meaning. |
More | phr | "There's More Where It Came From" - eat freely there's plenty more. |
More | phr | "Without More" - without anything additional or further. |
More | phr | "Without More Ado" - without delay. |
Morefold | adv | More times over |
Moreish | adj | Pleasant to eat, causing a desire for more. 2. morish. |
Moreness | n | The condition of being greater or more than another. 2. the condition of being more than one; plurality. |
Moreover | adv | Beyond what has been said; further, besides, also, likewise. |
Moreso | adv | To a greater degree. |
Morgen | n | The OE word for morning, becoming 'morn' and 'morning' in Middle English. |
Mork | vb | OE. to complain, murmur, grumble. |
Morn | n | (Poetic) - morning. |
Morn | phr | "Morn Till Night" - all day long. |
Morn | phr | Morn's Mor- tomorrow morning. |
Morning | n | The part of the day from dawn to midday. 2. the part of the day after midnight and before midday. 3. the early part of the day, esp. from dawn to midday. 4. the time between dawn and midday, and how it is spent; as a quite morning. 5. the early part of one's life. 6. |
Morning | phr | "In the Morning" - in the course or during the morning. |
Morning | phr | "Morning After the Night Before" - a hangover from overindulgence of alcohol. |
Morning | phr | "Morning, Noon and Night" - all of the time. 2. repeatedly throughout either a long (working) day or both day and night. |
Morning | phr | "The Northern Morning" - Aurora Borealis. |
Morning-after | n | A hangover from overindulgence of liquor. |
Morning-dawn | n | Sunrise. |
Morning-gift | n | The gift made by the husband to the wife on the morning after the consummation of the marriage; (sometimes used erroneously for the word "dowry.") 2. the morning-gift. |
Morning-kitchen | n | A small collection of appliances and utilities placed in a residence to facilitate the preparation of quick meals or beverages near the living quarters(usually, not found near the primary kitchen). |
Morning-land | n | The East; The Orient. |
Morning-less | adj | Having no morning; without morning. |
Morningly | adv | In the morning; occurring every or each morning. |
Morning-room | n | A sitting room used during the daylight hours; a front room; a living room. |
Morning-sickness | n | Biliousness or nausea felt in the morning during pregnancy. |
Morning-sleep | n | A second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern. |
Morning-star | n | The planet Venus when visible in the eastern sky. 2. fig. applied to anybody or any person who is regarded as the precursor. 3. dawn, sunrise, day's rim. |
Morning-tide | n | The morning or the early part of the day. |
Morning-ward | adv | Morn-ward: towards the morning or the morn. 2. toward the rising sun or the east; eastward. |
Morning-watch | n | A nautical term denoting the watch between 4.am. and 8am. |
Morning wood | n | Morning wood is one of several similar slang or colloquial terms referring to the phenomenon of nocturnal penile tumescence (erection) during and immediately following sleep. |
Mornly | adv | In the morn or morning, every morning. |
Morn-while | n | Morning; the time of the morning. |
Morrow | n | The day following; tomorrow; the day after today, 'the morrow'. 2. the time following an event. 3. morn, morning; the next morrow. |
Morrow | vb | To dawn. 2.to be endowed with morning. |
Morrowing | n | Morning, dawning, a postponing till tomorrow. |
Morrowless | adj | Not subject to time; without end. |
Morwyngift | n | The gift made by the husband to the wife on the morning after the consummation of the marriage; (sometimes used erroneously for the word "dowry.") 2. the morning-gift; the moryeve. |
Moss | n | OE: a bog, fen, moss,;any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly Musci). 2. (informal) any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. 3. (now chiefly Britain regional) a bog; a fen. |
Moss | vb | To become covered with moss. 2. an oak whose boughs were mossed with age. 3 to cover (something) with moss. |
Mossback | n | A person who is behind the times, or with antiquated ideas. 2. an extreme conservative; troglodyte, luddite. |
Moss-backed | adj | Having moss or a moss-like growth on on the back. 2. behind the times; reactionary. |
Moss-beard | n | A thick covering of beard. |
Moss-earth | n | Earth composed of, or largely mixed with, peat. |
Moss-field | n | A field covered with moss. 2. moss-ground. 3. moss-land. |
Moss-green | adj | A green color like moss. |
Mossful | adj | Covered with moss. |
Moss-grown | adj | Overgrown with moss. 2. begrown with moss. |
Mossily | adv | In a mossy way. |
Mossiness | n | The state or quality of being mossy; hair or downy. |
Mossland | n | Land covered in or abounding in moss. |
Moss-less | adj | without moss; having no moss. |
Mosslike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of moss in some aspect. |
Moss rose | n | A species of rose with a moss-like growth on the calyx. |
Moss-thrummed | adj | With a mossy edge. |
Mossy | adj | Covered in or resembling moss. 2. out-dated, old-fashioned, antiquated. |
Most | adv | Existing in the greatest quantity or degree. 2. the majority of; nearly all of. 3. in the highest degree (superlative). |
Most | prn | The majority. 2. the greatest quantity or number. 3. the most:the best of all. |
Most | sfx | Forming superlative adjectives and adverbs from prepositions and other words indicating relative position (foremost, uttermost). |
Most | phr | "At Most" - no more or better than. |
Most | phr | "At the Most" - as the greatest amount. 2. not more than. |
Most | phr | "For the Most" - for the most part, mostly. |
Most | phr | "Make the Most of" - employ to the best advantage. 2. use to the utmost; as an opportunity. 3. represent at its best or worst. |
Most | phr | "The Most (that) One Can Say" - te only praise or recommendation (and that not much) which can give somebody or something. |
Most | phr | "With the Most" - in the utmost degree. 2. in the greatest quantity; to the full. |
Mostest | adj | The greatest part. 2. the greatest amount or degree of somrthing. |
Most High | n | God. |
Mosthood | n | Supremacy, greatness, majesty. |
Mostly | adv | For the most part; in the most; in the main. 2. for the greatest degree; to the greatest extent. |
Mostness | n | Maximal size. |
Mostwhat | adv | For the most part. 2. the greater pat of. |
Mostwhen | adv | Most frequently; on most occasions. |
Mostwhere | adv | In most places or locations. |
Mote | n | A particle of dust, esp. one of the innumerable minute specks seen floating in a sunbeam. 2. an irritating particle in the eye or throat. 3. " a mote in the eye."-- fig. a relatively trifling fault seen in another person by one who ignores a greater fault of his own. 4. cause of irritation or annoyance. 5. a minute particle of foreign matter in food or drink. 6. a minute particle of anything; something very minute or trivial, a trifle, a bagatelle. 7. a spot, a blemish, a mark, an imperfection. 8. a tuft of wool forming the nap on cloth. 9. affection on anything, . on wool or cloth. 9. a single stalk of hay; a slender straw or twig. 10. an atom. 11. moteling; nanity, nanoid-matter. |
Mote | vb | Permitted, may -- expressing permission or possibility; as, in "so mote it be." |
Mote | vb | To pick faults; find faults; look for small things to complain about. |
Mote | vb | "A Mote in Someone Eyes" - a fault in another person which is trifling in comparison unrecognized to an major fault in oneself. |
Mote | phr | "Mote It I Thee, So Mote I Go" - expressing necessity or obligation: must. |
Moteless | adj | Without a blemish, spotless, impeccable, free from motes or minute particles. |
Moteling | n | Something very small. |
Motes | phr | "To Pick Motes." -- to find fault. |
Motewoke | adj | OE: woke- weak. 2. moderately soft. |
Motey | adj | Full of tiny particles; motty. 2. full of specks; moted. 3. full of small hard particles. |
Moth | n | Any nocturnal of the order Lepidoptera. |
Moth-bed | adj | Full of moths; moth-eaten. |
Moth-eaten | adj | Damaged or destroyed by moths. 2. antiquated, time-worn. |
Mothen | adj | Full of moths. |
Mother | n | A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation" 'necessity is the mother of invention" 2. mother a woman who has given birth to a child. 3. a term of address for an elderly woman. |
Mother | vb | Make children; to beget as a mother. 2. care for like a mother; to fuss over. 2. to serve out portion of food and drink, spec. to pour tea. 2. to excessively indulge or spoil a child |
Mother | phr | "Be Mother" - act as a hostess (when pourinng tea). |
Mother | phr | "Does Your Mother Know Your Out": jeering question to one who shows excessive simplicity or juvenile presumption. |
Mother | phr | "Every Mother's Child" - everyone. |
Mother | phr | "Have Too Much of his Mother's Blessing": said of a youth who is unreasonably prudish and scrupulous. |
Mother | phr | "Our First Mother": Eve, our first female ancestor; the great earth-mother" |
Mother | phr | "Mother and Father of" - the most extreme example of. |
Mother | phr | "Mother of All" - an extreme example of something. |
Mother | phr | "Mother of Gods" - the Virgin Mary. 2. as an interjection: exclamation of alarm or amazement. |
Mother | phr | "Mother of the Months" - the moon. 2. the queen of the night. |
Mother | phr | "Mother Swelling Upwards" - hysteria. |
Mother | phr | "One's Mother's Darling" - a spoiled male child. |
Mother board | n | A print circuit board containing the principal components or other device and connections for other circuit boards to be slotted in. |
Mother-borough | n | A city or metropolis. |
Mother-church | n | The original church from which others have sprung. |
Mothercraft | n | The business of a mother; knowledge of, and skill in care of children. |
Motherdom | n | Maternal state or authority. |
Mother earth | n | The earth considered as the mother of it's inhabitants and productions. 2. somewhat jocular: the ground. |
Mothered | adj | Having a mother. 2. containing a mother. |
Motherer | n | One who mothers. |
Mother heart | n | The love and kindness of a mother; maternal. |
Mother-hen | n | A person who seems to the needs of others, especially in a fussy or interfering way. |
Motherhood | n | The state, fact, condition of being a mother. 2. the embodiment of maternal qualities. 3. motherly care. 4. the spirit of a mother:the feeling or love of a mother. 5. protectiveness. 6. a clan constituted by kinship through the mother. |
Motherhouse | n | A founding house of a religious order. |
Mothering | n | Motherly care or supervisor that acts as a mother. |
Mother's child | phr | Every mother's child: a person. |
Mothering-Sunday | n | The fourth Sunday in Lent, traditional a day of honoring mothers with gifts. 2. mother's day. |
Mother-in-law | n | The mother of one's husband or wife. |
Mother-in-law's Tongue" | n | - a plant Sansevieria trfasciata, with lon erect pointed leaves. |
Motherish | adj | Pertaining to a maternal quality. 2. pertaining to an affectionate or sensitive character. 3. of or pertaining to warm and embonpoint appearance. |
Motherland | n | A country as the mother or producer or anything. 2. one's native country. |
Motherless | adj | Having no mother. |
Motherless | phr | "Stone Motherless Broke" -- an Australian colloq.: without money or any means of support. |
Motherlessness | n | State or fact of being without a mother. |
Mother-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a mother, in some aspect or another. |
Motherliness | n | Quality of being motherly. |
Mother-lode | n | Principal vein of ore. 2. the main vein of a system. |
Mother love | n | Deep maternal love. 2. storge. |
Mother-loving | adj | Loving one's own mother. |
Motherly | adv | Of or pertaining to a mother. 2. befitting of a mother. 3. motherful. 4. resembling a mother; having the character, manner or appearance of a man. |
Motherly | adv | In a motherly way or manner. |
Mother-maiden | n | The Virgin Mary. |
Mother mind | n | The maternal mind. |
Mother-naked | adj | Completely naked; naked as when born. |
Mother right | n | Mother-rike: a matriarchy. |
Mother-queller | n | One who commits matricide. 2. one who kills his own mother |
Mother's brother | n | Uncle; a maternal uncle. |
Mother's darling | n | Spoiled male child. |
Mother's Day | n | Mothering Sunday - in several countries, an equivalent day on the second Sunday in May. |
Mother's mark | n | A birth mark or congenital mark on a man or animal, naevus, nevus, nevoid. |
Mother's meeting | n | Group of gossiping people. |
Mother's milk | n | something that one especially enjoys (naturally). |
Mothership | n | An aircraft or space rocket which another after-rocket is launched. 2. the office of a mother. 3. motherly care. |
Mother sick | n | Hysteria. |
Mothersome | adj | Anxious like a mother. |
Mother's son | n | A spoiled child. |
Mother-thouught | n | The fundamental idea of something, esp. of a literary work. |
Mother-to-be | n | An expectant mother. 2. a woman expecting a baby. |
Mother-tongue | n | One's native tongue. 2. an original language from which others spring. |
Mother wit | n | Native or natural wit: common sense or common wit. 2. collective wisdom; collective wisdom of the generation. 3. wisdom with the connotation of collective wisdom acquired by the experience of living and from generations past and often expressed in folklore. 4. one who has mother wit. |
Mother-witted | adj | Having mother wit, native or natural wit, or common sense. |
Motherwort | n | Leonurus cardiaca; formerly applied to mugwort or Artemisia vulgaris. |
Moth-fretten | adj | Moth-eaten; eaten away or destroyed by moths. |
Moth-like | adj | In a manner like a moth. 2. resembling a moth. |
Moth-miller | n | A pale moth with floury wings; any moth. |
Mothwort | n | Helichrysum stroechus. |
Mothy | adj | Infested with moths. 2. characterized by the presence of moths. 3. suggestive of a moth. 4. resembling the movements of the wings of a moth. |
Mould | n | OE molde; mold (fungus, furry growth perhaps from Old Norse "mugla")- loose, broken or friable earth; hence the surface soil, which is readily broken up. 2.lumps or clods of earth. 3. poor quality soil or land. 4. the dust to which the human body returns after death; ashes of the dead. 5. earth of the grave; grave-earth 6. surface or top of the ground, solid stratum. 7. the earth on which we dwell. 8. organic matter: leaf mould. |
Mould | n | Fontanelle of an infant's head. |
Mould | vb | To bring to mould, bury, commit to the ground or grave. 2. to cover plants with mould; to earth up. 3. to mould away, to moulder, to crumble. 4. to rot, crumble, to dust , any natural decay, waste away. 5. to be diminished in number; dwindle. 6. to cause to crumble, fall to pieces or decay. 7. to move of in aimless, lifeless manner. |
Mould | phr | "Bring to Mould" - bury in the grave. |
Mould | phr | "In the Mould" - buried, interred. |
Mould | phr | "Laid in Mould" - buried. |
Mould | phr | "Man of Mould" - mortal man. |
Mould | phr | "Mould Away" - crumble away, decay. |
Mould | phr | "Mould Up" - allow to become mouldy. 2. become mouldy or covered in mould. |
Mould | phr | "On the Mould" - in the world; living. |
Mould | phr | "Under the Mould" - under the mould, buried, in the ground. |
Mould-ale | n | The wake or funeral banquet. see 'mould-meat'. |
Mould-board | n | A curved metal board in a plough which turns over the soil as the coulter cuts it. |
Mould-earth | n | The grave, burial plot, tomb. |
Moulded | adj | Turned to dust, decayed, rotted, crumbled, wasted away. |
Moulder | vb | To turn to dust by natural decay, grumbling, disintegration, or wasting away. |
Moulder | n | 2. a house that has been left to mould. |
Mouldily | adv | In a mouldy way. |
Mouldiness | n | Condition or state of being moulded. 2. moulded growth. 3. fig. - boredom or discontent. |
Moulding | n | Mould, fine soil, dust, earth, ashes. |
Mouldish | adj | Like mould or fine soil, mouldy. |
Mould-like | adj | Resembling mould (friable earth, etc) or some aspect of it. |
Mould-meat | n | The food of the funeral banquet. 2. last food a person eats before death. see 'mould-ale'. |
Mouldness | n | Mouldiness, mould. |
Mouldwarp | n | The mole: lit. an earth thrower. |
Mouldy | adj | Covered with mould, hence: decayed or decaying. 2. wretched, boring, depressed, gloomy, sick. 2. a performer of trad. jazz. |
Moult | n | The lose of feathers, plumage by a bird. 2. the lose of fur coat by an animal. |
Moult | vb | To lose one's plumage or feather. 2. of an animal, such as a dog: to lose one's coat of fur. |
Moulted | adj | Deprived of feather or coat of fur. 2. having molted. |
Moulten | vb | To moult. |
Moulter | n | Bird or animal that has lost all or part of its covering. |
Moulting | n | Applied to the change of voice in males at puberty. ? |
Mourn | vb | In early use said of the heart, soul, spirit etc. 2. to feel sorrow, regret, lament or grieve over the death of a loved-one, close friend; a lost thing (a marriage), past event. |
Mourn | phr | "In Mourning" - wearing mourning clothes or weeds. |
Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Heart" - to grieve deeply. |
Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Mind" - to keep one grieving to oneself. |
Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Mood" - to be solemn in grief |
Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Thought" - mournful in thoiught or mind. |
Mourn | phr | "Mourn Up" - to complete a period of mourning. |
Mourn | phr | "Out of Mourning" - no longer in a state of deep mourning. |
Mourner | n | One who laments or suffers grief and sorrow over the death of a loved-one. |
Mourner-bench | n | A seat at the front of church or a room set apart for mourners and penitent. |
Mournful | adj | Sorrowful, lamenting, grief-ridden. 2. sad, gloomy, glum; melancholy. |
Mournfully | adv | In a mournful manner. |
Mournfulness | n | The state or condition of being melancholy. 2. mourningly |
Mournfuls | n | "The Mournfuls" -- "The Blues"; depression, state of melancholia. |
Mourning | n | The state or condition of grieving on the death of a loved-one or close friend. |
Mourning-dove | n | "Zenaidura Macroura" - of North America noted for its plaintive cooing, |
Mourning-hood | n | State of mourning. |
Mourning-horse | n | The horse belonging to the deceased led riderless draped with black in the human procession. |
Mourningless | adj | That mourns not; failing to mourn. |
Mourningly | adv | In a mourning manner; grievingly. |
Mourning-ring | n | A ring worn in memory of dead person. |
Mourning-time | n | A period of mourning. |
Mournsome | adj | Mournful. |
Mouse | n | A small rodent often found in family homes. 2. (fig.) a tiny person; a timid or feeble person.. 3. a small, hand-held device which controls the cursor of a computer (and, which resembles the shape of a mouse). |
Mouse | vb | To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse. 2. to hunt or catch mice, usually of a cat. 3. to navigate by means of a computer mouse. 4. to tear, as a cat devouring a mouse. |
Mouse | phr | "It Is a Bold Mouse, that Nests in a Mouse's Ear" - said of one who takes unnecessary risks. |
Mouse | phr | "Like a Drowned Mouse" - in a miserable plight. |
Mouse | phr | "Mice Have been Here" - intruders have entered this place. |
Mouse | phr | "Mouse and Man" - every living thing. |
Mouse | phr | "Mouse over" - in computing, a mouseover, is a graphical control element that is activated when the user moves or "hovers" the pointer over its trigger area, usually with a mouse, but also possible using a digital pen. |
Mouse | phr | "When the Cat is Away, the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision, discipline will be lax. |
Mouse | phr | "Neither Man nor Mouse" - not one or the other; something in between. |
Mouse | phr | "Play the Game of Cat and Mouse" - often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." |
Mouse | phr | "The Mouse That Has One Hole Is Quickly Taken" - have two strings to your bow. |
Mouse | phr | "When the Cat is Away, the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision, discipline will be lax. |
Mouse-bane | n | Aconitum myoctonum, a plant thought to poison mice. 2. mouse and rat poison |
Mousebird | n | A small, gregarious African bird with mainly drab plumage, crest and long tail. |
Mouse-brown | adj | Mousey-brown: a drab, pale colour. |
Mouse-deer | n | A chevrotain; a rusi-tikus. |
Mousedom | n | The state or essence of a mouse |
Mouse-eared | adj | An apparatus resembling a mouse ear. |
Mouse-ear molewort | n | Sisymbrium thalium. |
Mouse-eaten | adj | Full of holes through being nibbled away. |
Mouse-fall | n | Mouse-trap. |
Mouse-gray | adj | A medium shade of gray, the color of the common house mouse. |
Moused | adj | A area or building cleared of mice by the use of cats or by a pest exterminator. 2. navigated by a means of a computer mouse. 3. provided with or having a computer mouse. |
Mouse-hole | n | A place where mice live. |
Mouse-hole | vb | To make a narrow passage or tunnel. |
Mousehood | n | The state or essence of a mouse. |
Mouse-like | adj | Resembling or like a mouse in some aspect. |
Mouser | n | A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for that purpose. |
Mouse-ship | n | the condition of being a mouse; mouseship (lit & fig.) - a mock title. |
Mouse-sight | n | Nearsightedness |
Mouse-still | adj | Very quietly and furtive. |
Mousewheel | n | A scroll wheel (or mouse wheel) is a hard plastic or rubbery disc (the "wheel") on a computer mouse that is perpendicular to the mouse surface. It is normally located between the left and right mouse buttons. |
Mousewort | n | A plant thought to repel or kill mice. |
Mousey | adj | Having sharp features. 2. quiet, timid, shy. 3. of a person, shy, timid, ineffectual. 4. infested with mice. |
Mousey-brown | adj | Of a drab, pale colour. |
Mousily | adv | In a shy, timid, feeble manner. |
Mousiness | n | The quality or state of being mousy. |
Mousing | n | That hunts or catches mice; given to hunting or catching mice. 2. rapacity, inquisitiveness, prowliness, as the cat hunting. |
Mouth | n | A external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food and emit communicative sounds. 2. an opening of a container such as a sack or bag. 3. a place where a river or streams enter the sea. 4. talkativeness; impudent talk, cheek. 5. an individual regarded as needing sustenance (an extra mouth). |
Mouth | vb | To pronounce, speak, give utterance to, to talk. 2. utter in a pompously oratorical style, or with great distinction of articulating. 3. to declaim. 4. to take food into the mouth. 5. to carry in the mouth like a dog with game. 6. to train a horse with the bit. 7. join lips; kiss; touch with the mouth. 8. of a river, to disembogue in. 9. to estimate the age of an animal by its teeth. 9. to grimace, to derisively grimace. 10. to make noises with the mouth, be somewhat mouthy or act in a mouthy manner. |
Mouth | phr | "Be In the Mouth Of" - in one's speech or conversation; on one's lips. |
Mouth | phr | "Born with a Siver Spoon in One's Mouth" - be brought by wealthy parents. |
Mouth | phr | "By Word of Mouth" - communicate orally. 2. using the spoken word (as opposed to written or printed) |
Mouth | phr | "Come Full Mouth" - to speak aloud, loudly, furiously. |
Mouth | phr | "Down in the Mouth." - having the corners of the mouth turn downwards, as a sign of dissatisfaction, dejected, dispirited, depressed, down-at-the-mouth. |
Mouth | phr | "Foam at the Mouth" - to show anger. |
Mouth | phr | "From Mouth to Mouth" - from one speaker to another. 2. speaking in turns or succession; latching. |
Mouth | phr | "From the Mouth" - of a person: from a speaker. |
Mouth | phr | "Give it Mouth." - express vehemently; give tongue to it. 2. give mouth to; bark, bay. 3. express in words. |
Mouth | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Mouth" - to be startled. |
Mouth | phr | "Have One's Mouth Made Up" - having an expectant desire for a particular type of food. |
Mouth | phr | "Hold One's Mouth (or tongue)" - be and remain silent. |
Mouth | phr | "In the Mouth" - of a person: when spoken or spoken of by. 2. in one's speech or conversation; on one's lips. |
Mouth | phr | "It Does No Lie in His Mouth" - it is not befitting of him. |
Mouth | phr | "Keep One's Mouth Shut" - refrain from speaking; remain silent. 2. not to talk about or reveal secrets about some matter. |
Mouth | phr | "Laugh on the Wrong side of the Mouth" - to laugh in a forced way. 2. lament instead of laughing. 3. to grimace. 4. of s animal menacing with the mouth. 5. to refuse to believe to accept. |
Mouth | phr | "Learn Something from the Horse's Mouth" - to get information from one's who is qualified to impart. |
Mouth | phr | "Live From Hand to Mouth" - being in poor financial circumstances to survive by way of safety margin. |
Mouth | phr | "Make Mouths" -grimace, pull a wry face, pout, distort one's mouth in mockery. |
Mouth | phr | "Make One's Mouth Water" - saliva's flows at the thought, smell, prospect of food; oe when one's greed or desire to have something is aroused. |
Mouth | phr | "Mouth of a Sailor" - the characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities; a person having this characteristic. |
Mouth | phr | "Mouth off" - to talk in a loud unpleasant voice. |
Mouth | phr | "Make One's Mouth Water" -- of food: having a delicious smell or look. 2. tempting, alluring. |
Mouth | phr | "Meet in the Mouth" - meet face to face. |
Mouth | phr | "Mouth to Mouth" - speak closely, face to face, intimately, in intimate conference. |
Mouth | phr | "Open One's (the)Mouth (of)"- begin speaking. 2. give the power of speech to. |
Mouth | phr | "Open One's Mouth Wide" - ask a high price. |
Mouth | phr | "Out of his Own" - to be condemned out of one's own words or witness. |
Mouth | phr | "Out of the Mouth of Bairns and Sucklings" - (as indiscreetly revealed) the truth. |
Mouth | phr | "Put One's Foot in One's Mouth" - say something foolish. |
Mouth | phr | "Put One's Head in the Leo's (Lion's) Mouth" - live recklessly exposing oneself to great danger. |
Mouth | phr | "Put Words into Someone's Mouth."- to tell one what to say. 2. to represent one as saying something in a particular way. |
Mouth | phr | "Say a Mouthful" -to make a shocking or important statement. 2. to say something noteworthy. |
Mouth | phr | "Shoot One's Mouth off" - talk furiously and erratically. 2. to speak without thinking. |
Mouth | phr | "Shut One's Month."- refrain from speaking; remain silent. |
Mouth | phr | "Stop One's Mouth" - keep someone from talking or expressing their opinion. |
Mouth | phr | "Take the Food Out of the Mouth of Children" - cruelly to deprive the needy. |
Mouth | phr | "Take the Words Out of Somebody's Mouth"- to anticipate what another was about to say. |
Mouth | phr | "Through the Mouth" - through some spokesman. |
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Mouth-breathing | adj | Breathing through the mouth, rather than the nose. |
Mouth-brooding | n | Also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, mouth-brooding is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent (mouth-brooder) for extended periods of time. |
Mouthcare | n | Periodically and systematically cleaning the mouth, brushing the teeth, and flossing help prevent dental caries, inflammatory periodontal disease, and halitosis. Mouth care also promotes a sense of cleanliness and well-being, facilitates speech, and helps overcome loss of appetite. |
Mouthed | adj | Having a mouth or a mouth of a certain kind. 2. provided with a mouth. 3. gaping, gawking. |
Mouther | n | One who mouths off. 2. one given to vain, boastful or declamatory speech. |
Mouth-filling | adj | Fig. bombastic, inflated. |
Mouth-friend | adj | A friend in words only. 2. superficially friendly but not deeds. 3. a person who who is otherwise not a friend. |
Mouthful | adj | A quantity (usually food)that fills the mouth, as much as the mouth can take or hold at one time. 2. a long or complicated word or expression. 3. a small quantity. 4. something important said. |
Mouthful | phr | "Give (or say) Someone a Mouthful": to make a striking or important statement; to say something noteworthy. |
Mouthily | adv | In a mouthy manner. |
Mouthiness | n | A state given or inclined to verbosity and monotonous talking. |
Mouthing | n | Opening, entrance, aperture. 2. of speech: characterized by grandiloquence or pomposity |
Mouthishly | adv | In a mouthish manner. |
Mouthless | adj | Having no mouth. |
Mouthlessly | adv | In a mouthless manner. |
Mouthlike | adj | Pertaining to an opening that looks like a mouth. |
Mouthness | n | A tendency or inclination to talk a lot; esp. in a rude or insolent manner. |
Mouth-opening | adj | An external opening part of a mouth, in various senses. |
Mouth-rim | n | The very edge of the lips. 2. the edge of crockery and some glassware. |
Mouth-rot | n | A disease affecting the teeth and mouth, esp in dogs. |
Mouth-to-Mouth | adj | Of resuscitation in which a person breathes into the subject lungs through the mouth. |
Mouthwards | adv | Towards or near the mouth. |
Mouthwash | n | An antiseptic in liquid form used by rinsing the mouth or gargling. 2. (slang) - nonsense. |
Mouth-water | n | Saliva, spittle. |
Mouth-watering | adj | Of food: having a delicious smell or look. 2. tempting, alluring. |
Mouthway | n | An entrance. |
Mouth-wise | adv | By means of the mouth. 2. by speech. |
Mouthy | adj | Having a usual than larger mouth. 2. characterized by railing, ranting, or the use of bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent language, mouthish, mouthly. 3. of language, above - but not always negatively. |
Mow | n | A stack of hay, corn, beans, peas, etc.; also, a heap of grain or hay in a barn. 2. a place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. 3. a heap or pile, also of earth, mound, hillock, mow-stead. |
Mow | vb | To cut down grass, hay, etc., with a scythe or machine. 2. to harvest the produce of a field by mowing. 3. to cut the grass or a lawn. 4. |
Mow | phr | "Mow Down" - kill or destroy randomly or in great numbers. |
Mowe | n | A female relative, a mowe, kinswoman, esp. by marriage, as an aunt, niece or sister-in-law. |
Mower | n | A cutter of grass; a lawn keeper, mowyer. 2. a machine powered manually or mechanically used to cut or mow grass or lawn. |
Mowing | n | The act of mowing grass by a scythe or machine. |
Mow-lot | n | A plot of land where grass is grown; mowland. |
Mowstead | n | A place where the rick stands; a mowing-meadow. |
Mowyer | n | One who cuts grass, a lawn-keeper, a cutter of grass. |
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