||Mor`a*to"ri*um (?), n. [NL. See Moratory.] (Law) A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.
Mor"a*to*ry (?), a. [L. moratorius delaying, fr. morari to delay.] Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.
||Mo"res (m"rz), n. pl.; sing. Mos (ms). [L.] Customs; habits; esp., customs conformity to which is more or less obligatory; customary law.
Mor"gan (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses; -- so called from the name of the stud from which the breed originated in Vermont.
Mor"mon, n. (Eccl.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States.
Mo"ron (?), n. (Pedagogy) A person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.
Mo*ron" (?), n.; Sp. pl. Morones (#). [Sp.] An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.
Mo"ros (?), n. pl.; sing. Moro (&?;). [Sp., pl. of Moro Moor.] (Ethnol.) The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.
Mor"ris-chair` (?), n. [Prob. fr. the proper name Morris.] A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.
||Mor"ro (?), n. [Sp., any spherical object.] A round hill or point of land; hence, Morro castle, a castle on a hill.
Morse" code" (?). (Teleg.) The telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, invented by Samuel B. Morse. The Alphabetic code which is in use in North America is given below. In length, or duration, one dash is theoretically equal to three dots; the space between the elements of a letter is equal to one dot; the interval in spaced letters, as O . ., is equal to three dots. There are no spaces in any letter composed wholly or in part of dashes.