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"Section M, N, and O"


Mo"risk (?), n. Same as
Morisco.


Mor"kin (?), n. [Akin to Sw.
murken putrefied, Icel. morkinn putrid.] A beast
that has died of disease or by mischance.
[Obs.] Bp.
Hall.


Mor"land (?), n. Moorland.
[Obs.]


Mor"ling (?), n. [Cf. F. mort
dead, L. mortuus, fr. moriri to die.]
Mortling. [Eng.] Ainsworth.


Mor"mal (?), n. [F. mort-mai a
deadly evil. Nares.] A bad sore; a gangrene; a
cancer.
[Obs.] [Written also morrimal and
mortmal.] Chaucer.


Mor"mo (?), n. [Gr. mormw` a
hideous she-monster, a bugbear.] A bugbear; false terror.
[Obs.] Jonhson.


||Mor"mon (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
mormw`n monster, bugbear.] (Zoöl.)
(a) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick
bill; the puffin.
(b) The
mandrill.


Mor"mon (?), n.


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