Name Report For First Name MORA:

MORA

First name MORA's origin is Spanish. MORA means "little blueberry". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MORA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mora.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with MORA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with MORA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming MORA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MORA AS A WHOLE:

morag moraunt aghamora amora avonmora guanhumora zamora zemora balmoral lamorat morain moran lamorak

NAMES RHYMING WITH MORA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ora) - Names That Ends with ora:

aurora adora senora thora dora fedora isadora madora musidora pandora pheodora theodora theora zudora teodora teadora aldora alora annora anora cora delora devora dinora eilinora eldora eleadora eleanora eleonora eleora elnora elora feodora honora isidora lenora leonora liora lora nicanora nora ora pastora salbatora salvadora salvatora sanora tabora talora xalbadora xalvadora yoora zipora raedbora wendlesora elenora bora zippora eliora derora debora phedora musadora medora hannelora onora orzora sippora

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Ends with ra:

asura azmera chinara efra iyangura japera katura nadra sanura tandra zuhura estra moira soumra adra aludra alzubra badra bahira bushra johara nasira noura samira thara' yusra gadara chamorra dendera kakra mukamutara mukantagara

NAMES RHYMING WITH MORA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mor) - Names That Begins with mor:

mor morcades mordecai mordechai mordehai mordke mordrain mordrayans mordred more moreen moreland moreley morell morella morenike morfran morgan morgana morgance morgane morgawse morgayne morgen morguase morholt mori moria moriah moriarty morice moricz moriel morigan morio morisa morise morissa morit moritz morland morlee morly morna morogh morold morrey morrie morrigan morrin morris morrisey morrison morrissey morse morten morton morvan morven morvyn moryn

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (mo) - Names That Begins with mo:

moana mochni modesta modeste modig modraed modred modron moerae mogens mogue mohamad mohamed mohamet mohammad mohammed moibeal moin moina moirai moire moireach moises mokatavatah moke moketavato moketaveto moketoveto moki mokovaoto molan molara molimo molli mollie molloy molly molner moly

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MORA:

First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':

mabbina mabina maca macala macayla macha machara machayla machupa mackayla mackenna macmurra mada madalena madalina maddalena madeeha madeleina madelena madelina madena madia madina madra maelisa maertisa magda magdala magdalena magena magnhilda magnilda magnolia maha mahala mahalia mahila mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makda makeda makela makemba makena makenna makya malaika malana maleka malia maliha malika malila malina malinda malita malmuira malva malvina mana manaba manara manauia manda mandisa manisha maniya mankalita manoela mantotohpa manuela manya maola mapiya mara maranda marcela marcella marcellia marcia marcsa marea mareesa marelda marella

English Words Rhyming MORA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MORA AS A WHOLE:

balmoralnoun (n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
 noun (n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.

boomorahnoun (n.) A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

commemorableadjective (a.) Worthy to be commemorated.

commemoratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commemorate

commemorationnoun (n.) The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
 noun (n.) Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.

commemorativeadjective (a.) Tending or intended to commemorate.

commemoratornoun (n.) One who commemorates.

commemoratoryadjective (a.) Serving to commemorate; commemorative.

commorancenoun (n.) See Commorancy.

commorancynoun (n.) A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.
 noun (n.) Residence temporarily, or for a short time.

commorantnoun (n.) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
 noun (n.) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.
 noun (n.) A resident.

commorationnoun (n.) The act of staying or residing in a place.

cormorantnoun (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.
 noun (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.

cormorautadjective (a.) Ravenous; voracious.

cosmoramanoun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.

cosmoramicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

demoragenoun (n.) Demurrage.

demoralizationnoun (n.) The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.

demoralizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demoralize

femoraladjective (a.) Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.

humoraladjective (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.

humoralismnoun (n.) The state or quality of being humoral.
 noun (n.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.

humoralistnoun (n.) One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

iliofemoraladjective (a.) Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

immemorableadjective (a.) Not memorable; not worth remembering.

immoraladjective (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

immoralitynoun (n.) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
 noun (n.) An immoral act or practice.

inamoratanoun (n.) A woman in love; a mistress.

inamorateadjective (a.) Enamored.

inamoratonoun (n.) A male lover.

marmoraceousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, marble.

marmorateadjective (a.) Alt. of Marmorated

marmoratedadjective (a.) Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.

marmorationnoun (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.

memorabilianoun (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

memorabilitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being memorable.

memorableadjective (a.) Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

memorandumnoun (n.) A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
 noun (n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.

memorativeadjective (a.) Commemorative.

moranoun (n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
 noun (n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
 noun (n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.

morainenoun (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

morainicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a moranie.

moralnoun (n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
 noun (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
 noun (n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.
 adjective (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
 adjective (a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
 adjective (a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
 adjective (a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
 adjective (a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
 adjective (a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
 verb (v. i.) To moralize.

moraleadjective (a.) The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

moralernoun (n.) A moralizer.

moralismnoun (n.) A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.

moralistnoun (n.) One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.
 noun (n.) One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.

moralitynoun (n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
 noun (n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
 noun (n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
 noun (n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
 noun (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
 noun (n.) Intent; meaning; moral.

moralizationnoun (n.) The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
 noun (n.) Explanation in a moral sense.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MORA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ora) - English Words That Ends with ora:


agoranoun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

amphoranoun (n.) Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

anaphoranoun (n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

angoranoun (n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

aplacophoranoun (n. pl.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates.

auroranoun (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
 noun (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.
 noun (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
 noun (n.) A species of crowfoot.
 noun (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

basommatophoranoun (n. pl.) A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

caracoranoun (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

carnivoranoun (n. pl.) An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

cephalophoranoun (n. pl.) The cephalata.

coranoun (n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

ctenophoranoun (n. pl.) A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.

discophoranoun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.

doryphoranoun (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

diasporanoun (n.) Lit., "Dispersion." -- applied collectively: (a) To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i. 1. (b) By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.

epanaphoranoun (n.) Same as Anaphora.

epiphoranoun (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.
 noun (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.

floranoun (n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
 noun (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

frugivoranoun (n. pl.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

helioporanoun (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

herbivoranoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

hydrophoranoun (n. pl.) The Hydroidea.

insectivoranoun (n. pl.) An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
 noun (n. pl.) A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.

madreporanoun (n.) A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.

mandragoranoun (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

masoranoun (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries.

massoranoun (n.) Same as Masora.

milleporanoun (n.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

nematophoranoun (n. pl.) Same as Coelenterata.

odontophoranoun (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora.

omnivoranoun (n. pl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.

onychophoranoun (n. pl.) Malacopoda.

oranoun (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
  (pl. ) of Os

pandoranoun (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
 noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

passifloranoun (n.) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

pecoranoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

placophoranoun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.

plethoranoun (n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
 noun (n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.

pneumonophoranoun (n. pl.) The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophorae.

pneumophoranoun (n. pl.) A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.

polyplacophoranoun (n. pl.) See Placophora.

psoranoun (n.) A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

pupivoranoun (n. pl.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.

remoranoun (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
 noun (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

retinophoranoun (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

rhabdophoranoun (n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

rhizophoranoun (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.

rhynchophoranoun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.

se–oranoun (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

signoranoun (n.) Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MORA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mor) - Words That Begins with mor:


moralizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moralize

moralizernoun (n.) One who moralizes.

morassnoun (n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.

morassyadjective (a.) Marshy; fenny.

moratenoun (n.) A salt of moric acid.

morationnoun (n.) A delaying tarrying; delay.

moraviannoun (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.

moravianismnoun (n.) The religious system of the Moravians.

moraynoun (n.) A muraena.

morbidadjective (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

morbidezzanoun (n.) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
 noun (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.

morbiditynoun (n.) The quality or state of being morbid.
 noun (n.) Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
 noun (n.) Amount of disease; sick rate.

morbidnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

morbificadjective (a.) Alt. of Morbifical

morbificaladjective (a.) Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.

morbillousadjective (a.) Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.

morboseadjective (a.) Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.

morbositynoun (n.) A diseased state; unhealthiness.

morceaunoun (n.) A bit; a morsel.

mordaciousadjective (a.) Biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.

mordacitynoun (n.) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.

mordantnoun (n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.
 noun (n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
 noun (n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
 adjective (a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
 adjective (a.) Serving to fix colors.
 verb (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.

mordantingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mordant

mordentenoun (n.) An embellishment resembling a trill.

mordicancynoun (n.) A biting quality; corrosiveness.

mordicantadjective (a.) Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body.

mordicationnoun (n.) The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.

mordicativeadjective (a.) Biting; corrosive.

morenoun (n.) A hill.
 noun (n.) A root.
 noun (n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
 noun (n.) That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
 superlative (superl.) Greater; superior; increased
 superlative (superl.) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.
 superlative (superl.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
 superlative (superl.) Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.
 adverb (adv.) In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
 adverb (adv.) With a verb or participle.
 adverb (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.
 adverb (adv.) In addition; further; besides; again.
 verb (v. t.) To make more; to increase.

moreennoun (n.) A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

morelnoun (n.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.
 noun (n.) Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.
 noun (n.) A kind of cherry. See Morello.

morelandnoun (n.) Moorland.

morellenoun (n.) Nightshade. See 2d Morel.

morellonoun (n.) A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

morendonoun (a. & n.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

morenessnoun (n.) Greatness.

moreporknoun (n.) The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

moresknoun (a. & n.) Moresque.

moresquenoun (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish.

morganaticadjective (a.) Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.

morgaynoun (n.) The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

morglaynoun (n.) A sword.

morguenoun (n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

morianoun (n.) Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.

moriannoun (n.) A Moor.

moribundnoun (n.) A dying person.
 adjective (a.) In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

moricadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.

moricenoun (n.) See Morisco.

morigerateadjective (a.) Obedient.

morigerationnoun (n.) Obsequiousness; obedience.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MORA:

English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':

maanoun (n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

maashanoun (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

maclureanoun (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

macroglossianoun (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

macrouraadjective (a.) Alt. of Macroural

macruranoun (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda.

mactranoun (n.) Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.

maculanoun (n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
 noun (n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.

madeiranoun (n.) A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

madianoun (n.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.

madonnanoun (n.) My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English.
 noun (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe).

madoquanoun (n.) A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.

madreporarianoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.

madrinanoun (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

madroöanoun (n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroöa apples.

magdalaadjective (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

magentanoun (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.

magmanoun (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.
 noun (n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.
 noun (n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.
 noun (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
 noun (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.
 noun (n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

magnesianoun (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

magnolianoun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

mahanoun (n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

mahabaratanoun (n.) Alt. of Mahabharatam

mahonianoun (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

mahrattanoun (n.) One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.
 noun (n.) A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.

maianoun (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
 noun (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

majolicanoun (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.

malanoun (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
  (pl. ) of Malum

malaccanoun (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.

malacobdellanoun (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

malacopodanoun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.

malacostracanoun (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.

malacozoanoun (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.

malaganoun (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

malarianoun (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
 noun (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.

mallophaganoun (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.

malmanoun (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

malpighianoun (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

malthanoun (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.
 noun (n.) Mortar.

mamanoun (n.) See Mamma.

mammanoun (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
 noun (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

mammalianoun (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

mammillanoun (n.) The nipple.

mancanoun (n.) See Mancus.

mandiocanoun (n.) See Manioc.

manianoun (n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
 noun (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

manilaadjective (a.) Alt. of Manilla

manillanoun (n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.
 noun (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.
 adjective (a.) Same as Manila.

mannanoun (n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
 noun (n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.
 noun (n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

mantanoun (n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

mantillanoun (n.) A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.
 noun (n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.

mantissanoun (n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

mantranoun (n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.

mantuanoun (n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
 noun (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.

manzanitanoun (n.) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

maranoun (n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit.
 noun (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
 noun (n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).

maranathanoun (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

marantanoun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

marenanoun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

marginalianoun (n. pl.) Marginal notes.

marginellanoun (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

margosanoun (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.

marikinanoun (n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin.

marimbanoun (n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.

marimondanoun (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.

marinoramanoun (n.) A representation of a sea view.

marsalanoun (n.) A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.

marsdenianoun (n.) A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.

marshalseanoun (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

marsipobranchianoun (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

marsupialianoun (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

martinetanoun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

massasauganoun (n.) The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

mastigopodanoun (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

mastodynianoun (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny

matamatanoun (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

matanzanoun (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

mattowaccanoun (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

maxillanoun (n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
 noun (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
 noun (n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.

mayanoun (n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

mazamanoun (n.) Alt. of Mazame

mazourkanoun (n.) Alt. of Mazurka

mazurkanoun (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.

meandrinanoun (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.

medianoun (n.) pl. of Medium.
 noun (n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.
  (pl. ) of Medium

medialunanoun (n.) See Half-moon.

medullanoun (n.) Marrow; pith; hence, essence.
 noun (n.) The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.
 noun (n.) A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith.

medusanoun (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
 noun (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.

megalomanianoun (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

meladanoun (n.) Alt. of Melado

melaenanoun (n.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

melanaemianoun (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

melancholianoun (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

melanorrhoeanoun (n.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish.

melasmanoun (n.) A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease.

melastomanoun (n.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

melenanoun (n.) See Melaena.

melismanoun (n.) A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.
 noun (n.) A grace or embellishment.

melissanoun (n.) A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).

melodramanoun (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

melop/ianoun (n.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.