<B>mog, </B>verb, <B>mogged,</B> <B>mogging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to move on; depart; decamp. <DD><B> 2. </B>to move along slowly but steadily; jog. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to move (something); cause to go. </DL>
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<B>moggie</B> or <B>moggy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>a cat. <DD><B> b. </B>an untidy woman or girl. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British Dialect.) a calf or cow. </DL>
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<B>Moghul, </B>noun. <B>=Mogul.</B></DL>
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<B>Mogollon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lon</B> or <B>-lons.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a tribe of North American Indians which once lived in the southwestern United States, thought to be predecessors of the Hopi and Zuni Indians. </DL>
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<B>Mogul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Mongol or Mongolian. <DD><B> 2a. </B>one of the Mongol conquerors of India in the 1500's. <DD><B> b. </B>one of their descendants. </DL>
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<B>mogul</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an important or powerful person. <BR> <I>Ex. The ruthless industrial giants of the 1800's were the moguls of American society.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a steam locomotive used especially in the late 1800's and early 1900's for hauling freight trains. </DL>
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<B>mogul</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a moundlike elevation on a ski slope. <BR> <I>Ex. Easily, solid on her skis, she swung down among the moguls and wind-bared ice, and became small, and again waited (John Updike).</I> </DL>
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<B>mohair, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>cloth made from the long, silky hair of the Angora goat; Angora. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar cloth made of wool and cotton or rayon, used for upholstery and clothing. <DD><B> 3. </B>a garment of mohair. <DD><B> 4. </B>the hair of the Angora goat. </DL>
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<B>Moham.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Mohammedan. </DL>
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<B>Mohammedan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of the Arabian prophet Mohammed (570?-632) or the religion founded by him; Moslem. <DD><I>noun </I> a follower of Mohammed; believer in the religion founded by him; Moslem. Also, <B>Mahometan,</B> <B>Muhammadan.</B> </DL>
<B>Mohammedanism, </B>noun. <B>=Islam.</B> <I>Ex. In its essence Mohammedanism ... holds to the doctrine of the unity and omnipotence of Allah, and of the responsibility of every human being to Allah (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>Mahometanism,</B> <B>Muhammadanism.</B> </DL>
<B>Mohave, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ve</B> or <B>-ves.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tribe of North American Indians dwelling chiefly in California, Nevada, and Arizona. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Hokan language of this tribe. Also, <B>Mojave.</B> </DL>
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<B>Mohawk, </B>noun, pl. <B>-hawk</B> or <B>hawks.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tribe of North American Indians formerly living in central New York State, the most powerful of the Six Nations or Iroquois. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Iroquoian language of the Mohawks. </DL>
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<B>Mohegan, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gan</B> or <B>-gans.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tribe of North American Indians related to the Mohicans, formerly living in western Connecticut. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Mahican.</B> </DL>
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<B>mohel, </B>noun, pl. <B>mohelim.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Jewish ritual circumciser. </DL>
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<B>Mohican, </B>noun, pl. <B>-can</B> or <B>-cans.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of either of two tribes of North American Indians formerly living in the upper Hudson valley and in Connecticut. Also, <B>Mahican.</B> </DL>
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<B>Mohism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the moral teachings of Mo Ti (or Mo-Tzu), a Chinese philosopher of the 400's B.C. Mohism emphasized universal love and opposed the traditional teachings of Confucianism. Also, <B>Moism.</B> </DL>
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<B>Mohist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an adherent of Mohism. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or like Mohism. Also, <B>Moist.</B> </DL>
<B>Mohock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of a class of ruffians, often aristocrats, who roamed the streets of London at night early in the 1700's. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) Mohawk. </DL>
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<B>Mohockism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the practices of the Mohocks. </DL>
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<B>Mohole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an experimental drilling project to bore into the earth's mantle to obtain geological specimens and to verify the Mohorovicic discontinuity. The project was financed by the United States government and ended by Congress in 1966. </DL>
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<B>Mohorovicic discontinuity,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the boundary between the earth's crust and mantle, the depth of which varies from approximately 6 to 8 miles under ocean basins, to 20 to 22 miles under the continents. </DL>
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<B>Mohs</B> or <B>Mohs' scale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a scale for classifying the relative hardness of minerals, as follows: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; corundum 9; diamond 10. <DD><B> 2. </B>a modified form of this scale, arranged as follows: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; orthoclase 6; vitreous silica 7; quartz 8; topaz 9; garnet 10; fused zirconia 11; fused alumina 12; silicon carbide 13; boron carbide 14; diamond 15. </DL>
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<B>mohur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a former gold coin of India. It was equal to 15 rupees. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rupee of Nepal. </DL>
<A NAME="mohwa">
<B>mohwa, </B>noun. <B>=mahua.</B></DL>
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<B>M.O.I.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Ministry of Information (an agency of the British government during World War II, since replaced by the Central Office of Information and the British Information Service). </DL>
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<B>moidore, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a former gold coin of Portugal and Brazil, worth about $6.50. </DL>
<A NAME="moiety">
<B>moiety, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>half. <BR> <I>Ex. War, pestilence, and famine, had consumed ... the moiety of the human species (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>part. <BR> <I>Ex. Only a small moiety of college students win scholarships.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person's share or portion. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Anthropology.) each of the two strictly comparable major sections of a single society. Typically, as common among Australian aborigines, each moiety is exogamous so that all the members of any one moiety must find their spouses in the other. </DL>
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<B>moil</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to work hard; drudge. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be in a turmoil; agitate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Archaic.) <B>1. </B>to wet; moisten. <DD><B> 2. </B>to soil; bedaub; make dirty. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>hard work; drudgery. <DD><B> 2. </B>confusion, turmoil, or trouble. noun <B>moiler.</B> </DL>
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<B>moil</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the glass that adheres to the blowpipe or a piece of glassware after the piece is blown and cracked off. </DL>
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<B>Moingwena, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na</B> or <B>-nas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a woodland tribe of North American Indians, once constituting a part of the Illinois confederacy, who lived in central Iowa. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of this tribe, a dialect of Illinois. </DL>
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<B>Moira, </B>noun, pl. <B>-rai,</B> <B>-rae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>any one of the three Fates. <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>moira.</B> a person's fate, or the kind of life he has been decreed by the Fates to live. <BR> <I>Ex. I am going through my end, moira, my allotted part (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>moire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any textile fabric, especially silk, rayon, or acetate, to which a watered appearance or wavelike pattern is given by pressing it between engraved rollers; watered fabric. <BR> <I>Ex. This ... gown is made of satin finished silk organdy, with a moire sash (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(originally) a kind of watered silk. </DL>
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<B>moire, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=moire.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. ... weaving the stuff into a fine mesh or engine-turning it into something resembling silk moire (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a variegated or clouded appearance like that of watered silk, especially on metals for ornamentation. <DD><B> 3. </B>Also, <B>moire pattern.</B> a pattern of lines resulting from two other patterns overlapping. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>(of silk, paper, or metal) having a wavelike pattern or clouded appearance; watered. <BR> <I>Ex. moire silk.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a stamp) printed on the paper surface with an intricate wavy pattern to prevent forgery. </DL>
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<B>moire antique,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> silk watered in a large pattern. </DL>
<B>moist, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>slightly wet; not dry; damp. <BR> <I>Ex. a moist cloth, a moist cellar, a moist dressing for an infection.</I> (SYN) humid, dank. <DD><B> b. </B>(of the eyes) wet with tears; tearful. <DD><B> 2. </B>rainy; wet. <BR> <I>Ex. The weather is moist and raw (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>associated or connected with liquid, as a disease marked by a discharge of matter or phlegm. adv. <B>moistly.</B> noun <B>moistness.</B> </DL>
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<B>moisten, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make moist; dampen. <BR> <I>Ex. Moisten the flap of the envelope to seal it.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become moist. <BR> <I>Ex. Her eyes moistened with tears.</I> noun <B>moistener.</B> </DL>
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<B>moist gangrene,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> gangrene characterized by the presence of blisters, oozing fluid, and a bad odor. Bacteria which cause the flesh to decay are active in moist gangrene. </DL>
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<B>moisture, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> slight wetness; water or other liquid spread in very small drops in the air or on a surface. Dew is moisture that collects at night on the grass. adj. <B>moistureless.</B> </DL>
