Mop"si*cal (?), a. Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
Mop"stick` (?), n. The long handle of a mop.
Mo"pus (m"ps), n. A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.
||Mo*quette" (?), n. [F.] A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
||Mor"a (?), n. [It.] A game of guessing the number of fingers extended
||in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the
||lower classes.
Mo"ra (?), n. (Bot.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad
(Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and
making furniture.
||Mo"ra, n. [L.] (Rom. & Civil Law) Delay; esp., culpable delay;
||postponement.
Mo*raine" (?), n. [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a
heap of stones, hillock, G. mürbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS.
mearu tender, Gr. &?; to cause to wither, Skr. ml to relax.] (Geol.) An
accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a
glacier. Lyell.
If the moraine is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal
moraine; if at the side, a lateral moraine; if parallel to the side on
the central portion of the glacier, a medial moraine. See Illust. of
Glacier. In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral
moraines of the branches of the glacier. A ground moraine is one
beneath the mass of ice.
Mo*rain"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a moranie.
Mor"al (?), a. [F., fr. It. moralis, fr. mos, moris, manner, custom,
habit, way of life, conduct.] 1. Relating to duty or obligation;
pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong,
virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such
intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice,
manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other,
as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to
rules.
Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have
in them vice or virtue.
Hooker.
Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.
Dryden.
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
Hawthorne.
2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such
rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction
from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
The wiser and more moral part of mankind.
Sir M. Hale.
3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of
right; subject to the law of duty.
A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral
quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a
moral sense.
J. Edwards.
4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or
suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral
considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral
pressure or support.
5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; --
opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral
certainty.