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. (Eccl.) One of a sect in the United States, followers
of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible,
engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published
in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of
apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
The Mormons call their religious organization The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head claims to receive revelations of
God's will, and to have certain supernatural powers.
Mor"mon, a. Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion;
Mormon practices.
Mor"mon*dom (?), n. The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon
people.
Mor"mon*ism (?), n. The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.
Mor"mon*ite (?), n. A Mormon. -- a. Mormon. "Mormonite religion." F. W.
Newman.
Morn (môrn), n. [OE. morwen, morgen, AS. morgen; akin to D. morgen, OS.
morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan. morgen,
Goth. maúrgins. Cf. Morrow, Morning.] The first part of the day; the
morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.
From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.
Milton.
Mor"ne (môr"ne), a. Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. [Obs.]
"White as morne milk." Chaucer.
||Morne (môrn), n. [F., fr. morne sad, sorrowful. See Mourn.] A ring
||fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in
||tilting.
||Mor`né" (môr`n"), a. [F., fr. morne a morne.] (Her.) Without teeth,
||tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.
Morn"ing (môrn"ng), n. [OE. morning, morwening. See Morn.] 1. The first
or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of
light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from
rising to noon, etc.