<B>motor home,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a motor vehicle with a long body designed and furnished as living quarters for recreational travel or for camping. <BR> <I>Ex. Ford ... is touring scenic backwaters of the Far West with his boyhood friend Kevin Kennedy in a 27-ft. motor home (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="motorhotel">
<B>motor hotel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a motel that provides full hotel service, especially one with garage space, in the downtown section of a city. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a new seven-story motor hotel, to serve the tourist and convention trade (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="motorial">
<B>motorial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with motion. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a motor nerve. </DL>
<A NAME="motoric">
<B>motoric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or causing motion or action. <BR> <I>Ex. motoric rhythm.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="motoring">
<B>motoring, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> riding in a vehicle operated by a motor. </DL>
<B>motorist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who drives or travels in an automobile, especially one who does it a great deal. <BR> <I>Ex. Visiting motorists could cross the frontier at Brest-Litovsk and drive to Moscow (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="motorium">
<B>motorium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toria.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the part of an organism which is concerned with motion. </DL>
<A NAME="motorization">
<B>motorization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of motorizing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being motorized. </DL>
<A NAME="motorize">
<B>motorize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to furnish with a motor or motors. <BR> <I>Ex. The Danville voyageurs ... rode in a motorized "box car" (Baltimore Sun).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to equip with motor-driven vehicles in place of horses and horse-drawn vehicles. <DD><B> 3. </B>to equip (infantry) with motor-driven transport vehicles, especially trucks, but not to alter the nature of their weapons. </DL>
<A NAME="motorless">
<B>motorless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no motor; without a motor. <BR> <I>Ex. motorless aircraft.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="motorlodge">
<B>motor lodge,</B> =motor hotel.</DL>
<A NAME="motorlorry">
<B>motor lorry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a motor truck. </DL>
<A NAME="motorman">
<B>motorman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who runs an electric train, streetcar, or monorail. <DD><B> 2. </B>a man who runs a motor. </DL>
<A NAME="motormower">
<B>motor mower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a motor-driven lawn mower; power lawn mower. </DL>
<A NAME="motorpool">
<B>motor pool,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of automobiles or other motor vehicles held by an organization for temporary use, as needed, by individuals, but not permanently assigned. </DL>
<A NAME="motorsailer">
<B>motor sailer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sailboat with a motor, usually an inboard motor. </DL>
<A NAME="motorscooter">
<B>motor scooter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a vehicle like a child's scooter, except that the driver is seated. It is run by a motor. </DL>
<A NAME="motorship">
<B>motorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a ship moved by a motor, usually a diesel engine. (Abbr:) M.S. </DL>
<B>motor torpedo boat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, very fast, and highly maneuverable boat, having little or no armor, equipped with torpedoes, depth charges, anti-aircraft guns, and smoke-screen equipment. </DL>
<A NAME="motortruck">
<B>motor truck,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a truck with an engine, frame, and wheels made for carrying heavy loads. </DL>
<A NAME="motorvehicle">
<B>motor vehicle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a motor-driven vehicle for use on roads and highways, such as an automobile, truck, or bus. </DL>
<A NAME="motorway">
<B>motorway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a highway with high speed limits and no cross traffic. </DL>
<A NAME="motory">
<B>motory, </B>adjective. =motor.</DL>
<A NAME="motown">
<B>Motown, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a style of rhythm and blues with a strong beat, which originated in Detroit, Michigan. </DL>
<A NAME="mott">
<B>mott</B> or <B>motte</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Southwestern U.S.) a clump of trees in a prairie. </DL>
<A NAME="motte">
<B>motte</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an earthen mound on which a wooden castle was built in early Norman times. </DL>
<A NAME="mottetto">
<B>mottetto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ti.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) a motet. </DL>
<A NAME="mottle">
<B>mottle, </B>verb, <B>-tled,</B> <B>-tling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to mark with spots or streaks of different colors or shades. <BR> <I>Ex. the gray stone parapet, mottled with the green and gold of innumerable mosses (Mrs. Humphry Ward).</I> (SYN) dapple. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a mottled coloring or pattern; mottling. <DD><B> 2. </B>a spot, blotch, or streak on a mottled surface. (SYN) variegation. </DL>
<A NAME="mottled">
<B>mottled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> spotted or streaked with different colors or shades; dappled; marbled. </DL>
<A NAME="mottledenamel">
<B>mottled enamel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> streaked or spotted enamel of the teeth, caused by continued use of water with excessive fluorine during the time the teeth are forming. </DL>
<A NAME="mottlefigure">
<B>mottle figure,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pattern in the grain of wood formed by spots and cloudiness and producing a dappled effect. </DL>
<A NAME="mottler">
<B>mottler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that mottles. </DL>
<B>motto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toes</B> or <B>-tos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a brief sentence adopted as a rule of conduct. <BR> <I>Ex. "Think before you speak" is a good motto.</I> (SYN) proverb, adage, saying. <DD><B> 2. </B>a word, sentence, or phrase written or engraved on some object. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=motto theme.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mottotheme">
<B>motto theme,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a recurrent and sometimes transformed symbolic theme in a piece of music; leitmotif. </DL>
<A NAME="motuproprio">
<B>motu proprio,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>independently; of one's own accord. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) by one's own motion. </DL>
<B>mouchard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a police spy; informer. <BR> <I>Ex. I think the fellow's a cursed mouchard--some Government spy (Charles Kingsley).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mouchoir">
<B>mouchoir, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a handkerchief. <BR> <I>Ex. A mouchoir with musk his spirits to cheer (London Magazine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moue">
<B>moue, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a grimace; pout. <BR> <I>Ex. Her pleasantly assembled features ... can be compressed on stage into an alarming and comical moue (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="moufflon">
<B>moufflon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-flons</B> or (collectively) <B>-flon.</B> =mouflon.</DL>
<A NAME="mouflon">
<B>mouflon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lons</B> or (collectively) <B>-lon.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small wild sheep of the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large, curving horns. <BR> <I>Ex. In the game-rich Gennargentu mountains there are boar, deer, and mouflon (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>its wool, used for fur. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of various similar wild sheep. </DL>
<A NAME="mought">
<B>mought, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic or Dialect.) might (1). </DL>
<A NAME="mouille">
<B>mouille, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) <DD><B> 1. </B>palatalized by a following <I>y-</I>sound, as <I>l</I> in <I>million.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>pronounced as palatal or palatalized, as the sounds represented in Spanish by <I>ll, n,</I> in Italian by <I>gl, gn,</I> and in French by <I>gn.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>pronounced as a <I>y-</I> sound but spelled <I>l</I> or <I>ll,</I> as in certain French words. </DL>
<A NAME="moujik">
<B>moujik, </B>noun. =muzhik.</DL>
<A NAME="moulage">
<B>moulage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the making of molds, in plaster of Paris or the like, of objects involved in a crime, or their outlines, as a footprint or tire track, for use especially in identification and as evidence. <DD><B> 2. </B>such a mold. <DD><B> 3. </B>a plaster, wax, or rubber imitation of an injury of the body, used in medical therapy or training. </DL>
<B>mound</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a bank or heap of earth, stones, or other material. <BR> <I>Ex. a mound of hay.</I> (SYN) pile. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small hill; hillock. <BR> <I>Ex. The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.</I> (SYN) knoll. <DD><B> 3. </B>the slightly elevated ground from which a baseball pitcher pitches. <BR> <I>Ex. Dean, coming to the mound from center field, got the side out with only one of the runners scoring (Tishomingo Capital-Democrat).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to heap up. <BR> <I>Ex. to mound earth.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to enclose with a mound or embankment. <BR> <I>Ex. A sand-built ridge of heaped hills that mound the sea (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Dialect.) to enclose with a fence. </DL>
