<B>mobocrat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a supporter of mobocracy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a leader of the mob; demagogue. </DL>
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<B>mobocratic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with mobocracy. <DD><B> 2. </B>like a mobocracy. <DD><B> 3. </B>that advocates mobocracy. </DL>
<A NAME="mobrule">
<B>mob rule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rule or political control by a mob. <BR> <I>Ex. The President pointed out ... [that] "mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of the courts" (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>MOBS, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Multiple Orbital Bombardment System (a nuclear-weapon system in which earth satellites carry warheads that may be released from space upon earth targets, thus escaping detection by conventional radar). </DL>
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<B>mobster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chronic lawbreaker, especially a person who specializes in crimes of violence; criminal; gangster. <BR> <I>Ex. I will not allow work on the piers to go to hoodlums and mobsters from New York (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>moccasin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soft shoe, often made from the skin of a deer. Moccasins were originally worn by North American Indians, and are typically without heels, having the sole and the sides stitched to the upper or vamp with rawhide. <DD><B> 2. </B>a poisonous snake of the southeastern United States; the copperhead or especially the water moccasin. </DL>
<A NAME="moccasinflower">
<B>moccasin flower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pink or white orchid shaped somewhat like a slipper; pink or white North American lady's-slipper. </DL>
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<B>mocha, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a choice variety of coffee originally coming from southwestern Arabia, in what is now Yemen. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mixture of coffee and chocolate, used as a flavoring in drinks, cakes, and other foods. <BR> <I>Ex. Strong American coffee ... is converted into mocha by adding a tablespoon of chocolate syrup and a dab of unsweetened whipped cream (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a kind of soft, thin leather used for gloves, usually made from Arabian goatskin. <DD><I>adj. </I> flavored with coffee, or with chocolate and coffee. <BR> <I>Ex. a mocha frosting, mocha cake.</I> </DL>
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<B>Mocha stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of agate having dendritic markings of metallic oxides; moss agate. </DL>
<A NAME="mochaware">
<B>Mocha ware,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white pottery formerly produced in England for household use, decorated with dendritic or treelike designs on a tinted ground. </DL>
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<B>Mochica, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ca</B> or <B>-cas,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of a civilization that dominated the coast of northern Peru for about a thousand years, until the 1000's A.D. The Mochica were noted for achievements in architecture and ceramics. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with this civilization. </DL>
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<B>mochila, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a leather flap that covers a saddletree. </DL>
<A NAME="mock">
<B>mock, </B>verb, adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to laugh at; make fun of; ridicule. <BR> <I>Ex. Little children ... mocked him, and said ... Go up, thou bald head (II Kings 2:23).</I> (SYN) deride, taunt. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make fun of by copying or imitating. <BR> <I>Ex. The thoughtless children mocked the different speech of the new boy.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to imitate; copy. <BR> <I>Ex. Prepare To see the life as lively mock'd as ever still sleep mock'd death (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) mimic, ape. <DD><B> 4. </B>to make light of; pay no attention to; disregard. <BR> <I>Ex. health that mocks the doctor's rules (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) to deceive or disappoint. <BR> <I>Ex. Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, to lead those false who trust it (Matthew Arnold).</I> (SYN) delude, fool. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to scoff; jeer. (SYN) gibe. <DD><I>adj. </I> not real; imitation; copying; sham. <BR> <I>Ex. a mock king, a mock battle, mock modesty.</I> (SYN) feigned, pretended, counterfeit, false. <DD><I>adv. </I> in a feigned or false manner; feignedly; falsely (usually in compounds such as a <I>mock-modest person, a mock-pompous statement</I>). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an action or speech that mocks. <BR> <I>Ex. His bullying made a mock of all the fine things he had said about kindness to others.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or thing scorned or deserving scorn. <DD><B> 3. </B>an imitation; counterfeit; copy. <DD><B> 4. </B>derision; mockery. </DL>
<A NAME="mockable">
<B>mockable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be mocked; subject to mockery. </DL>
<A NAME="mocker">
<B>mocker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who mocks. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=mockingbird.</B> </DL>
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<B>mockernut hickory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a variety of hickories growing in the southern United States. </DL>
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<B>mockery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a making fun; ridicule; derision. <BR> <I>Ex. Their mockery of her hat hurt her feelings.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person, thing, or action to be made fun of; laughingstock. <BR> <I>Ex. Through his foolishness he became a mockery in the village.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a bad copy or imitation. <BR> <I>Ex. The little girl's pie was a mockery of her mother's cooking.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>a wasted or useless thing; naught. <BR> <I>Ex. The unfair trial was a mockery of justice.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>something insultingly or absurdly unfitting. <BR> <I>Ex. In her bitterness she felt that all rejoicing was a mockery (George Eliot).</I> </DL>
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<B>mock-heroic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> imitating or burlesquing the heroic style or character. <BR> <I>Ex. Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock" is a mock-heroic poem.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an imitation or burlesque of what is heroic. adv. <B>mock-heroically.</B> </DL>
<B>mockingbird, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a grayish songbird, especially of southern North America, and Central and South America, that imitates the notes of other birds. It belongs to the same family as the catbird. <BR> <I>Ex. The mockingbird, whose song once charmed only the Southland, has been gradually spreading out toward the north (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of certain similar or related birds. </DL>
<A NAME="mockmoon">
<B>mock moon,</B> <B>=paraselene.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mockorange">
<B>mock orange,</B> <B>=syringa.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mocksun">
<B>mock sun,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a parhelion; sundog. </DL>
<A NAME="mockturtlesoup">
<B>mock turtle soup,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a soup made with calf's head in imitation of green turtle soup. </DL>
<A NAME="mockup">
<B>mock-up, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a full-sized model of an airplane, machine, or other device, used for teaching purposes, for testing, or for studying details or new features of design. A mock-up is usually built to scale from a material such as plywood, plaster, or clay. <BR> <I>Ex. The investigators sought to recover every possible part of the fallen plane for a mock-up on chickenwire of sections, or even all of the craft (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>moco, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large South American rodent belonging to the same family as the cavy. </DL>
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<B>mod</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>adj. </I> very up-to-date and fashionable in style, as of clothes, makeup, music, and art; very stylish. <BR> <I>Ex. Their eyes are also very much on the present. This gives the show a mod look (Dan Sullivan). Both appeared wearing ... white shirts and mod ties (Don McDonagh). More often than not, the music that enhances these mod liturgies comes from an electric guitar pulsating to a rock beat (Time).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who is very stylish or up-to-date. <BR> <I>Ex. From mod to teenybopper, all and sundry must see the error of our ways (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>extremely modern or fashionable style. <BR> <I>Ex. The look of "chic mod" she says she is trying to achieve ... (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Mod</B> or <B>mod</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) one of a group of teen-agers of the 1960's affecting extreme neatness of appearance and a foppish liking for very fine or stylish clothes. </DL>
<B>MOD</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Ministry of Defence (in Great Britain). </DL>
<A NAME="modacrylic">
<B>modacrylic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or designating a type of synthetic fiber formed from long-chain polymers consisting chiefly of acrylonitrile, and used for making carpets, imitation furs, and draperies. <BR> <I>Ex. modacrylic fabrics. Dynel is a modacrylic fiber.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="modal">
<B>modal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with mode, manner, or form, as contrasted with substance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Grammar.) <DD><B> a. </B>of or having to do with the mood of a verb. <DD><B> b. </B>denoting manner or modality. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) of or having to do with a mode, especially any of the medieval church modes. <BR> <I>Ex. One must pause before attempting to define this new music of Claude Debussy in all its tonal attributes, modal developments, and techniques (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Philosophy.) of, consisting in, or relating to formal manifestation as contrasted with basic substance. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Law.) (of a legacy, contract, or other instrument) containing provisions defining the manner in which it is to take effect. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Logic.) displaying modality. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Physics.) of or having to do with a mode of vibration. adv. <B>modally.</B> </DL>
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<B>modal auxiliary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of a set of auxiliary verbs in English, including words like <I>may, can, must, would,</I> and <I>should,</I> that indicates the mood of the verb with which it is used. </DL>
