Mohammedan 
II. n. A follower of Mohammeil, the founder 
of the Moslem religion ; one who professes Mo- 
hammedanism; a Moslem or Mussulman. 
Mohammedanism (mo-ham'e-dan-izm), n. [< 
Mohammedan + -4sm."\ 1. The Mohammedan 
religion and polity ; the religious and ethical 
system taught in the Koran; Islamisrn. 2. 
Belief in or adherence to the teachings of Mo- 
hammed. 
Mohammedanize (mo-ham'e-dan-Iz),v. t.; pret. 
and pp. Miiliammcdanized, ppr. Moliammedaniz- 
ing. [< Mohammedan + -iee.~\ To make con- 
formable to the principles or rites of Moham- 
med; make Mohammedan; convert to Islam. 
Also spelled Mohammedanise. 
Mohammedism (mo-ham'e-dizm), n. [< Mo- 
hammed + -ism.] Same as Mohammedanism. 
Mohammedize (mo-ham'e-diz), v. t.; pret. and 
pp. Mohammedized', ppr. Mohammedising. Same 
as Mohammedanize. 
moharra, mojarra (mo-har'a), n. [Pg.] 1. 
An embiotocoid fish, Hypsvma caryi,_ having a 
very short anal fin: so called from its resem- 
blance to the Gerrida:, which are known by the 
same name. [Local, Monterey, California.] 
2. Any fish of the family Gerridte. 
Moharram (mo-har'am), n. Same as Muhar- 
ram. 
Mohawk (mo'hak), n. [Formerly also Monocle, 
Mohack ; Amer. Ind. ] 1 . One of a tribe of Amer- 
ican Indians of the Hurou-Iroquois family, situ- 
ated along the Mohawk river. It was the east- 
ernmost of the Five Nations. See Iroquois. 
2. A ruffian; specifically [cap. or I. c.], one of 
those who infested the streets of London about 
the beginning of the eighteenth century: so 
called from the Indian tribe of that name. 
Give him [a youngster] Port and potent Sack ; 
From a Milksop he starts up Mohack. 
Prior, Alma, iii. 
Did I tell you of a race of rakes, called the Mohocks, that 
play the devil about this town every night, slit people's 
noses and beat them, etc. ? 
Sinft, Journal to Stella, March 8, 1711. 
The Mohock-club, a name borrowed it seems from a sort 
of cannibals in India, who subsist by plundering and de- 
vouring all the nations about them. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 324. 
Who has not trembled at the Mohock's name? 
Gay, Trivia, iii. 326. 
Mohegan (mo-he 'gan), a. and n. Same as 
Mohican. 
Mohican (mo-he'kan), n. and n. [Also Mohei/aii ; 
from the native name.] I. a. Of or relating to 
the Mohicans 
or Mohegans. 
II. n. One 
of a tribe of 
American In- 
dians of the Al- 
gonkin stock. 
Moho (mo'ho), 
w. [NL.,< Ha- 
waiian moho, 
the bird here 
defined.] 1. A 
genus of meli- 
phagine birds 
peculiar to the 
Sandwich Isl- 
ands, named 
by Lesson in 
1831. The bill is 
arcuate, longer 
than the head, 
with naked oper 
culate nostrils 
the tarsi are boot 
ed ; and the plu- 
mage is blackish 
with yellow pecto- 
ral tufts and some 
white tail - fea- 
thers. There are 
2 species, M. nobilis and M. apicalis, formerly called yel- 
low-tufted bee-eater. Also Mohoa (Reichenbach, 1850) and 
Acridocercus (Cabanis, 1847). 
2. [I. c.] Any bird of this genus. 
Mohockt, . An obsolete form of Mohawk. 
mohoe(m6-ho'), n. [Also moho, mohaut."] Same 
as mahoe, 1. 
mohr (mor), n. [Ar. : cf. mohr, a colt.] An 
African antelope or gazel, Gazella mohr. The 
horns are annulated with ten or twelve complete rings. It 
is much sought after by the Arabs, on account of produ- 
cing the bezoar-stones so highly valued in Eastern medi- 
cine, commonly called in Morocco mohr's eggs. A re- 
lated species, Gazella scemmeringi, is known as Svmme- 
ring's mohr. Also mohor and mhorr. 
mohsite (mo'sit), n. [Named after Friedrich 
Molis, a German mineralogist (1773-1839).] 
Native titanic iron, or ilmenite. 
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mohur (mo'her), n. [Also mohar; < Hind. 
iiniluir, inulir, mohr, < Pers. muliur, muhr, mohr, 
a seal, a gold coin.J A modern gold coin of 
India under the British dominion, equivalent 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Mohur. (Size of the original.) 
to 15 rupees, or about $7 ; also, a gold coin of 
the native princes of India from the sixteenth 
century onward. 
mohwa-tree, n. See mahwa-tree. 
moider (moi'der), v. [Also moither; of. mud- 
dle.] I. trans. 1. To confuse; perplex; dis- 
tract; bewilder. 
I've been strangely moyder'd e're sin 'bout this same 
news oth' French king. I conno believe 'tis true. 
Wit of a Woman (1705). (Narei.) 
You'll happen be a bit moithered with it [a child] while 
it's so little. George Eliot, Silas Marner, xiv. 
2. To spend in labor. 
She lived only to scrape and hoard, mmdering away her 
loveless life in the futile energies and sordid aims of a 
miser's wretched pleasure. Cornhill May. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng. in both uses.] 
II. intrans. To labor hard; toil. [Prov. Eng.] 
moidore (moi'dor), n. [Also moedore; < Pg. 
moeda d'ouro, lit. money or coin of gold: moeda, 
< L. moneta, money; de, < L. de, of; euro, < L. 
aurum, gold: see money, de 2 , and aurum, or%.~] 
>';.. f\ ^^t-rji^i. ',. 
Yellow-tufted Moho (Moho nobilis'i. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Moidore. (Size of the original.) 
A gold coin (also called Usbonine) formerly cur- 
rent in Portugal. It was equivalent in value 
to about $6.50. 
He says his expenses in the relief of our prisoners have 
been upwards of fifty moidores. 
Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 231. 
moiety (moi'e-ti), .; pi. moieties (-tiz). [For- 
merly also moitic; < F. moitie = Sp. mitad = 
Pg. metade = It. meta, a half, < L. medieta(t-)s, 
a half, the middle, a middle course, < medius, 
middle: see mediety and medium.'] 1. A half 
part or share; one of two equal parts: as, a 
moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits. 
The charge there would be so great by crauers and ex- 
penses that the moitie of the proflte would bee wholly 
consumed. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 257. 
2. A portion; a share. 
Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, 
In quantity equals not one of yours. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 96. 
Anti-moiety law, a United States statute of 1874, which 
repealed all United States moiety acts. Moiety act, a 
statute giving one half of fines, penalties, and forfeitures 
to informers or private prosecutors. Moiety system, a 
system at one time adopted by the United States govern- 
ment for finding out the names and indebtedness of delin- 
quent taxpayers, by which the informer or person making 
the discovery and aiding in the collection received as com- 
pensation a certain proportion of the amount collected. 
moil 1 (moil), v. [Early mod. E. also moile, 
moyle ; (. ME. moilen, moillen, moylen, moisten, 
< OF. moiller, mailer, moillier, muiller, F. mouil- 
ler = Pr. molhar = Sp. mollear, mojar = Pg. 
molhar = It. mollare, wet, moisten, < L. as if 
*molliare, for molUre, soften, < mollis, soft: see 
moll 2 . Connection with L. moliri, toil (see 
molimen), or with W. mael, toil, or with obs. 
E. moil 2 , a mule, need not be assumed.] I. 
trans. If. To wet; moisten. 2. Tosoil; dirty; 
daub. 
When the day was therefore come, and that he saw that 
it rayned still worse then it did before, hee pitied the 
centinels so too moyled and wette. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 354. (Richardson.) 
All they which were left were moiled with dirt and mire 
by reason of the deepness of the rotten way. 
Knolles, Hist. Turks. 
moirologist 
At first happy news came, in gay letters mailed 
With my kisses. 
Mrs. Bnnminy, Mother and Poet, St. 7. 
3. To fatigue by labor; weary. 
II. intrans. 1. To soil one's self; wallow in 
dirt. 
A simple soule much like myselfe dyd once a serpent find, 
Which (almost dead with cold) lay nwyliwj in the my're. 
Gascoiyne, Constancie of a Louer. 
2. To drudge; labor; toil. 
I never heard a more pertinent Anagram than was made 
of his Name, William Noy, I 'nwtt \nwi/l] in Law. 
tloweil, Letters, I. vi. 17. 
They saw him daily mailing and delving in the common 
path, like a beetle. Longfellow, Kavanagh, i. 
moil 1 (moil), n. [< moil 1 , .] 1. Defilement. 
The moil of death upon them. Browning. 
2. Labor; drudgery. 
Made to tread the mills of toil, 
Up and down in ceaseless moil. 
Whittier, Barefoot Boy. 
moi! 2 t, n. [Early mod. E. also moyle; < ME. 
"moile, < OF. "moile, mute, a mule : see mule.~\ 
A mule. 
And at the sayd Noualassa we toke mmjles to stey us vp 
the mountayne. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 80. 
Endure this, and be turn'd into his moil 
To bear his sumptures. 
Chapman, Byron's Conspiracy, iii. 1. 
moi! 3 t, " [f OF. *moile, mule, F. mule = Sp. 
mula (also dim. mulilla) = It. mula, a slipper, < 
L. mulleus. (sc. calceus), a red leather shoe, < 
mullus (> OF. moil), a red mullet : see mullet 1 ."] 
A kind of high shoe. 
Thou wear'st (to weare thy wit and thrift together) 
Moyles of velvet to save thy shoes of leather. 
J. Heywood, Works and Epigr. (flares.) 
moil 4 (moil), u. [Origin obscure.] In glass- 
making, the metallic oxid adhering to the glass 
which is broken from the end of the blowpipe. 
E. H. Knight. 
moil 6 (moil), n. [Origin obscure.] A tool oc- 
casionally used by miners in certain districts 
instead of a pick when accurate cutting is to be 
done. The moil (also called a set) is usually made of drill- 
steel, about two and a half feet long, and pointed at the end 
like a gad. The gad, however, is short, and intended to be 
struck with the hammer ; the moil is held and worked in 
the hand, like a short crowbar. 
moilet, n. [< F. moelle, marrow, = Sp. meollo = 
Pg. medulla = It. midolla, < L. medulla, marrow: 
see medulla.] A dish of marrow and grated 
bread. Bailey, 1731. 
moiler (moi'ler), n. A toiler; a drudge. 
moilleret, n. See mulierl. 
moily (moi'li),n. Sameaste/. [Prov. Eng.] 
moilieau (moi'no), . [< F. moineau, a bastion 
(see def.), a ravelin, a piece of ordnance (Cot- 
grave) ; appar. a fig. use of moineau, a sparrow, 
< OF. moinel, moisnel, contr. of moissonel, dim. 
of moisson, a sparrow, < L. as if *muscio(ti-), < 
musca, a fly: see Musca."} In fort., a small flat 
bastion raised in front of an intended fortifi- 
cation, to defend it from attacks by means of 
small-arms. 
moire (mwor), n. [< F. moire, watered silk : 
see mohair."] 1. A clouded or watered appear- 
ance on metals or textile fabrics. 2. A kind 
of watered silk; also, watered mohair. See 
watered. 
My wife and I went to Pater-Noster Howe, and there we 
bought some greene-watered iloyre, for a morning waste- 
coate. Pepys, Diary, Nov. 21, 1660. 
Moire antique, silk watered in the antique style so as 
to resemble the materials worn in olden times. 
moir (mwo-ra'), it. [F.] Same as moire, 1 . 
Moire antique. Sec moire antique, under mfiire. Moi- 
r^ metallique, tin-plate, or iron-plate which has been 
first coated with tin, so treated by acids as to give it a 
clouded, variegated, or variously crystallized surface. The 
effect is enhanced by heating the plate irregularly with 
a blowpipe immediately before applying the acids, or by 
first heating the plate, and then sprinkling it with water 
to cool it irregularly, and immediately applying the acids. 
The surface to be treated is first cleaned by washing with 
alkaline water, then dried, then dipped in dilute nitric en- 
hydrochloric acid, then washed in pure water, and after- 
ward in lime-water, to neutralize any remaining traces of 
acid, and dried. Lastly, the surface is usually covered 
with a tinted transparent lacquer. Plates of clean iron 
dipped in melted zinc, in the so-called galvanizing pro- 
cess, often acquire a beautiful crystalline surface, resem- 
bling in general effect the moire metallique. 
moire (mwo-ra'), v. t.; pret. and pp. mo/i-fcd, 
ppr. moireing. [< moire, .] To give a variety 
of shades to, by the moire 1 metallique process 
of tin-coating. 
The solution [salt, or sal ammoniac] may be applied to 
the surfaces to be moiVtrrf with the aid of a sponge. 
W. H. Wahl, Galvanoplastic Manipulations, p. 521. 
moireent, See moreen. 
moirologist (moi-rol'o-jist), H. Same as mcerolo- 
gist. [Rare.] 
