Webster's Dictionary 1828

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MOLLIFICATION

MOLLIFICA'TION, noun The act of mollifying or softening.1. Mitigation; an appeasing.

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MOLLIFIED

MOL'LIFIED, participle passive Softened; appeased.

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MOLLIFIER

MOL'LIFIER, noun That which softens, appeases or mitigates.1. He that softens, mitigates or pacifies.

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MOLLIFY

MOL'LIFY, verb transitive [Latin mollio.] To soften; to make soft or tender. Isaiah 1:1.1. To assuage, as pain or irritation.2. To appease; to pacify; to calm or quiet.3. To qua...

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MOLLUSCA

MOLLUS'CA, noun [from Latin mollis, soft.] In zoology, a division or class of animals whose bodies are soft, without an internal skeleton, or articulated covering. Some of them ...

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MOLLUSCAN

MOLLUS'CANMOLLUS'COUS, adjective Pertaining to the mollusca, or partaking of their properties. [Molluscous is used, but is less analogical than molluscan]

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MOLLUSCOUS

MOLLUS'COUS, a. Pertaining to the mollusca, or partaking of their properties. [Molluscous is used, but is less analogical than molluscan.]

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MOLOSSUS

MOLOS'SUS, noun [Gr.] In Greek and Latin verse, a foot of three long syllables.

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MOLT

MOLT, verb intransitive To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, etc.; as an animal. Fowls molt by losing their feathers, beasts by losing their hair, serpents by castin...

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MOLTEN

MOLTEN, participle passive of melt. Melted.1.adjective Made of melted metal; as a molten image.

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MOLTING

MOLTING, participle present tense Casting or shedding a natural covering, as hair, feathers, skin or horns.MOLTING, noun The act or operation by which certain animals, annually ...

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MOLY

MO'LY, noun [Latin from Gr.] Wild garlic, a plant having a bulbous root.

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MOLYBDEN

MOLYB'DENMOLYB'DENA, noun [Gr. a mass of lead.] An ore of molybdenum, a scarce mineral of a peculiar form, and sometimes confounded with plumbago, from which however it is disti...

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MOLYBDENA

MOLYB'DENA, n. [Gr. a mass of lead.] An ore of molybdenum, a scarce mineral of a peculiar form, and sometimes confounded with plumbago, from which however it is distinguished by...

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MOLYBDENOUS

MOLYB'DENOUS, adjective Pertaining to molybden, or obtained from it. The molybdenous acid is the deutoxyd of molybdenum.

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MOLYBDENUM

MOLYB'DENUM, noun A metal which has not been reduced into masses of any magnitude, but has been obtained only in small separate globules, in a blackish, brilliant mass. These ar...

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MOME

MOME, noun A dull, silent person; a stupid fellow; a stock; a post.

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MOMENT

MO'MENT, noun [Latin momentum. This word is contracted from motamentum, or some other word, the radical verb of which signified to move, rush, drive or fall suddenly, which sens...

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MOMENTAL

MOMENT'AL, adjective Important. [Not in use.]

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MOMENTALLY

MOMENT'ALLY, adverb For a moment.

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MOMENTANEOUS

MOMENTANEOUS, MOMENTANY, not used. [See Momentary.]

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MOMENTANY

MOMENTANEOUS, MOMENTANY not used. [See Momentary.]

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MOMENTARILY

MO'MENTARILY, adverb Every moment.

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MOMENTARY

MO'MENTARY, adjective Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as a momentary pang.Momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream.

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MOMENTLY

MO'MENTLY, adverb For a moment.1. In a moment; every moment. We momently expect the arrival of the mail.

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MOMENTOUS

MOMENT'OUS, adjective Important; weighty; of consequence. Let no false step be made in the momentous concerns of the soul.

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MOMENTUM

MOMENT'UM, noun [Latin] In mechanics, impetus; the quantity of motion in a moving body. This is always equal to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity.