MOVABLES
MOVABLES, plural Goods, wares, commodities, furniture; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MOVABLES, plural Goods, wares, commodities, furniture; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands.
MOVABLY, adverb So that it may be moved.
MOVE, verb transitive moov. [Latin moveo.]1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The...
MOVED, participle passive Stirred; excited.
MOVELESS, adjective That cannot be moved; fixed.The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower.
MOVEMENT, noun Motion; a passing, progression, shaking, turning or flowing; any change of position in a material body; as the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the...
MO'VENT, adjective [Latin movens.] Moving; not quiescent. [Little used.]MO'VENT, noun That which moves any thing. [Little used.]
MOVER, noun The person or thing that gives motion or impels to action.1. He or that which moves.2. A proposer; one that offers a proposition, or recommends any thing for conside...
MOVING, participle present tense Causing to move or act; impelling; instigating; persuading; influencing.1.adjective Exciting the passions or affections; touching; pathetic; aff...
MOVINGLY, adverb In a manner to excite the passions or affect sensibility; pathetically.His air, his voice, his looks and honest soul,Speak all so movingly in his behalf.
MOVINGNESS, noun The power of affecting, as the passions.
MOW, noun A heap, mass or pile of hay deposited in a barn.[We never give this name to hay piled in the field or open air. The latter is called a stack or rick.]MOW, verb transit...
MOW'BURN, verb intransitive To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.
MOWE, verb intransitive To be able; must; may.
MOWEDMOWER, noun One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.
MOWER, n. One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.
MOW'ING, participle present tense Putting into a mow.MOWING, participle present tense Cutting down with scythe.MOWING, noun The act of cutting with a scythe.1. Land from which g...
MOWN, participle passive Cut with a scythe.1. Cleared of grass with a scythe, as land.
MOX'A, noun The down of the mugwort of China; a soft lanuginous substance prepared in Japan from the young leaves of a species of Artemisia. In the eastern countries, it is used...
MOYLE, noun A mule. [See Mule.]
MUCH, adjective1. Great in quantity or amount.Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and gather but little in. Deuteronomy 28:38.Manasseh wrought much wickedness in the sigh...
MUCHWHAT, adverb Nearly; almost. [Not elegant.]
MU'CIC, adjective [from mucus.] The mucic acid is the same as the saccholactic. It is obtained from gums, etc.
MU'CID, adjective [Latin mucidus, from muceo.] Musty; moldy; slimy.
MU'CIDNESS, noun Mustiness; sliminess.
MU'CILAGE, noun [Latin mucus, the slimy discharges from the nose; Heb. to dissolve, to putrefy.]1. In chimistry, one of the proximate elements of vegetables. The same substance ...
MUCILAG'INOUS, adjective Pertaining to or secreting mucilage; as the mucilaginous glands.1. Slimy; ropy; moist, soft and lubricous; partaking of the nature of mucilage; as a muc...