Webster's Dictionary 1828

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MONUMENT

MON'UMENT, noun [Latin monumentum, from moneo, to admonish or remind.]1. Any thing by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated; a building, stone or ...

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MONUMENTAL

MONUMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to a monument; as a monumental inscription.1. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.Of pine or monumental oak.A work outlasting mo...

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MOOD

MOOD, noun [Latin modus. See Mode.]1. The form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, and their quali...

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MOODILY

MOOD'ILY, adverb [from moody.] Sadly.

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MOODINESS

MOOD'INESS, noun Anger; peevishness.

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MOODY

MOOD'Y, adjective Angry; peevish; fretful; out of humor.Every peevish moody malcontent.1. Mental; intellectual; as moody food.2. Sad; pensive.3. Violent; furious.

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MOON

MOON, noun1. The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel t...

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MOON-TREFOIL

MOON-TRE'FOIL, noun A plant of the genus Medicago.MOON'-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Lunaria; satin-flower; honesty.

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MOONED

MOON'ED, adjective Taken for the moon.

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MOONET

MOON'ET, noun A little moon.MOON'-EYE, noun An eye affected by the moon.MOON'-EYED, adjective Having eyes affected by the revolutions of the moon.1. Dim-eyed; purblind.MOON'-FIS...

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MOONISH

MOON'ISH, adjective Like the moon; variable.

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MOONLESS

MOON'LESS, adjective Not favored with moonlight.

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MOONLIGHT

MOON'LIGHT, noun The light afforded by the moon.MOON'LIGHT, adjective Illuminated by the moon; as moonlight revels.

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MOONLING

MOON'LING, noun A simpleton.

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MOONLOVED

MOON'LOVED, adjective Loved when the moon shines.MOON'-SAD, noun A plant of the genus Menispermum, having a rosaceous flower.

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MOONSHINE

MOON'SHINE, noun The light of the moon.1. In burlesque, a month.A matter of moonshine a matter of no consequence or of indifference.MOON'SHINE

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MOONSHINY

MOON'SHINY, adjective Illuminated by the moon; as a fair moonshine night.I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

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MOONSTONE

MOON'STONE, noun A variety of adularia, of a white color, or a yellowish or greenish white, somewhat iridescent, found in blunt amorphous masses, or crystallized in truncated rh...

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MOONSTRUCK

MOON'STRUCK, adjective Affected by the influence of the moon; lunatic; as moonstruck madness.

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MOONY

MOON'Y, adjective Lunated; having a crescent for a standard; in resemblance of the moon; as the moony troops or moony host of the sultans of Turkey.

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MOOR

MOOR, noun1. A tract of land overrun with heath.2. A marsh; a fen; a tract of wet low ground, or ground covered with stagnant water.MOOR, noun [Gr. dark, obscure.] A native of t...

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MOORCOCK

MOOR'COCKMOOR'ED, participle passive Made fast in a station by cables or chains.

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MOORED

MOOR'ED, pp. Made fast in a station by cables or chains.

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MOORFOWL

MOOR'FOWLMOOR'HEN, noun A fowl of the genus Tetrao, found in moors; red-game; gor-cock.

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MOORHEN

MOOR'HEN, n. A fowl of the genus Tetrao, found in moors; red-game; gor-cock.

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MOORING

MOOR'ING, participle present tense Confining to a station by cables or chains.MOOR'ING, noun In seamen's language, moorings are the anchors, chains and bridles laid athwart the ...

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MOORISH

MOOR'ISH, adjective Marshy; fenny; watery.Along the moorish fens.1. Pertaining to the Moors in Africa.