Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often
accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or
ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes
peevishness.
||Mo*ro"sis (m*r"ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. mw`rwsis, fr. mw^ros silly,
||foolish.] (Med.) Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.
Mo*ros"i*ty (?), n. [L. morositas: cf. F. morosité.] Moroseness. [R.]
Jer. Taylor.
Mo"ro*soph (?), n. [Gr. mo^ros foolish + sofo`s wise.] A philosophical
or learned fool. [Obs.]
Mo*ro"sous (?), a. Morose. [Obs.] Sheldon.
Mo*rox"ite (?), n. [Cf. Gr. &?;, &?;, a sort of pipe clay.] (Min.) A
variety of apatite of a greenish blue color.
Mo*rox"y*late (?), n. (Chem.) A morate.
Mor`ox*yl"ic (?), a. [L. morus a mulberry tree + Gr. &?; wood.] (Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.
Mor"phe*an (?), a. Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.
Keats.
Mor"pheus (môr"fs or môr"f*s), n. [L., fr. Gr. Morfey`s prop., the
fashioner or molder, because of the shapes he calls up before the
sleeper, fr. morfh` form, shape.] (Class. Myth.) The god of dreams.
Mor"phew (?), n. [F. morpheé, LL. morphea; cf. It. morfea.] A scurfy
eruption. [Obs.] Drayton.