mornspeech 
mornspeecht, . Same as morrow-speech. 
It is orileyned to hauen foure monttpeches in the sere. 
Emjlish Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 45. 
morn-tidet, Same as HHirroic-tide. 
morn-whilet, ". [ME. moniewltile.] The mom- 
ing time. 
Bot be ane aftyre mydnyghte alle his mode chaugede ; 
He mett ill the morne while fulle mervaylous dremes ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3224. 
moro (mo'ro), . [NL., < L. moms, a mulberry: 
see more*, Morns.] The viuous grosbeak, stone- 
bird, or desert-trumpeter, Carpodacus (Bucane- 
tes) githagiticits, a small fringilline bird. 
Moroccan (mo-rok'an), a. [< Morocco (see mo- 
rocco) + -an.] Of or pertaining to Morocco, a 
sultanate in northwestern Africa, lying west of 
Algeria, or its inhabitants. 
The Jew is still the most remarkable element in thelfo- 
roccan population. The Academy, No. 891, p. 371. 
morocco (mo-rok'6), n. and a. [Short for Mo- 
rocco leather; cf. equiv. maroquin, < F. maro- 
quin = Sp. marroqui = Pg. marroquim = It. 
marrocchiito, with accom. adj. term., = E. -ine 1 ; 
so called from Morocco or Morocco (ME. Mar- 
rok), < AT. Marrdkush, the city which gave its 
name to the country, and in which the manu- 
facture of morocco leather is still carried on.] 
1. M. 1. Leather made from goatskins, tanned 
with sumac, originally in the Barbary States, 
but afterward very largely in the Levant, and 
now produced in Europe from skins imported 
from Asia and Africa. The peculiar qualities of true 
morocco are great firmness of texture with flexibility, and 
a grained surface, of which there are many varieties. This 
surface is produced by an embossing process called grain- 
ing. True morocco is of extreme hardness, and makes the 
most durable bookbindings ; it is used also for upholster- 
ing seats and for similar purposes, and to a certain extent 
in shoemaking. 
2. Leather made in imitation of this, often of 
sheepskins, and used for the same purposes, 
but much more largely in shoemaking. 3f. A 
very strong kind of ale anciently made in 
Cumberland, said to have a certain amount 
of beef among its ingredients, the recipe be- 
ing kept a secret French morocco, in bookbinding, 
an inferior quality of Levant morocco, having usually a 
smaller and less prominent grain. Levant morocco. 
See lemnt'2. 
II. a. Made or consisting of morocco ; also, 
of the common red color of morocco leather. 
morocco (mo-rok'6), v. t. To convert into mo- 
rocco. 
Morocco gum. See gum arabic, under gum 2 . 
morocco-head (mp-rok'6-hed), n. The Ameri- 
can sheldrake or merganser, Mergus america- 
nus. [New Jersey.] 
morocco-jaw (mo-rok'6-ja), n. The surf-scoter 
or surf -duck, QJdemia perspicillata : so called 
from the color of the beak. G. Trumbull, 1888. 
[Long Island.] 
morology (mp-rol'p-ji), n. [< Gr. [iup<Aoyia, 
foolish talking, < [lupoUyof, talking foolishly, 
< //upof, foolish, + Uyeiv, speak: see -ology.] 
Foolish speech. Coles, 1717. [Rare.] 
morone (mp-ron'), n. [< L. moms, a mulberry- 
tree : see more*, Moms.] Same as maroon^. 
Moronobea (mor-p-no'be-a), n. [NL. (Aublet, 
1775), < moronobo, the native name of the tree 
among the Galibis of Guiana.] A genus of di- 
cotyledonous plants of the polypetalous order 
Guttiferw, type of the tribe Moronobea!, distin- 
guished by short sepals, erect twisted petals, 
and spirally twisted filaments partly mona- 
delphous. One species, M. coccinea, is known, native of 
tropical America ; it is a tall tree, with long horizontal 
branches, large white solitary flowers, spirally grooved 
berries, and a copious gummy juice. See hog-gum, 
Moronobe8e(mor-p-n6'be-e),.j>i!. [NL. (End- 
licher, 1836), < Moronobea + -eie.] A tribe of 
plants of the order Gnttiferce, typified by the 
genus Moronobea, and characterized by the ab- 
sence of cotyledons and by an elongated style. 
It includes 5 genera, of tropical America, Africa, and 
Madagascar, all shrubs or trees with gummy juice, one 
of which, the Platonia of South American forests, reaches 
an immense size. 
morose 1 (mp-ros'), a. [= F. morose, < L. mo- 
rosus, particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self- 
willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish, 
< mos (mor-), way, custom, habit, self-will: see 
moral*.] If. Fastidious; scrupulous. 
Speak morose things always, and jocose things at table. 
Babeet Book (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 29. 
2. Of a sour temper; severe; sullen and aus- 
tere. 
A morose, ill-conditioned, ill-natured person in all clubs 
and companies whatsoever. South, Sermons, VI. iii. 
Somewhat at that moment pinched him close, 
Else he was seldom bitter or morose. 
Cmvper, Epistle to J. Hill. 
3862 
= Syn. 2. Gloomy. Sulky, etc. (see tutten), gruff, crabbed, 
crusty, churlish, surly, ill-humored, ill-natured, cross- 
grained. 
morose 2 ! (mp-ros'), a. [= OF. moros = Sp. It. 
n/oroKO, lingering, slow, < ML. morosus, linger- 
ing, slow, < L. mora, delay: see moral. The 
form was appar. due in part to morose 1 .] Lin- 
gering; persistent. 
Here are forbidden all wanton words, and all morose de- 
lighting in venereous thoughts. Jer. Taylor. 
Morose delectation*, in theol., pleasure in the remem- 
brance of past impurities. 
morosely (mp-ros'li), ado. In a morose man- 
ner; sourly; with sullen austerity. 
moroseness (mp-ros'nes), . The state or 
quality of being morose; sourness of temper; 
sullenness. 
morosityt (mp-ros'i-ti), . [< F. morotttf, < L. 
mon>sita(-)s,peevishness, < morosus, peevish: 
see morose*.] 1. Moroseness. 
Blot out all peevish dispositions and moralities. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), 1. 199. 
2f. Morose people. 
Feare not what those morosie [read morosMe] will mur- 
mure whose dead cinders brook no glowing sparkes, nor 
care not for the opinion of such as hold none but philoso- 
phic for a subject. Oreene's Vision. 
Diogenes was one of the first and foremost of this rusty 
morosotie. Nath, Unfortunate Traveller. 
rnorosopht (mo'rp-sof ), n. [< OF. morosophe, < 
LGr. uupAaotyof, foolishly wise, < Gr. /fap6f, fool- 
ish, 4- o-o06f, wise. Cf. sophomore.] A philo- 
sophical or learned fool. 
Hereby you may perceive how much I do attribute to 
the wise foolery of our morosoph, Triboulet. 
Rabelais, tr. by Ozell, iii. 46. (Nares.) 
morosoust (mp-ro'sus), a. [< ML. morosus, lin- 
gering: see >orose 2 .] Same as morose*. 
Daily experience either of often lapses, or morosous de- 
sires. Sheldon, Miracles (1616), p. 201. 
morowet, A Middle English form of morrow. 
morowespechet, n. Same as morrow-speech. 
morowetidet, Same as morrow-tide. 
moroxite (mp-rok'sit), n. [< Gr. /zopofo 
dof, a variety of pipe-clay, + -ite%.] A crystal- 
lized form of apatite, occurring in crystals of 
brownish or greenish-blue color. It is found 
in Norway. 
Morphean (mor'fe-an), a. [< L. Morphem, q. v., 
+ -an.] Of or belonging to Morpheus, a god of 
dreams in the later Roman poets. 
The Morphean fount 
Of that fine element that visions, dreams, 
And fitful whims of sleep are made of. 
Keats, Endymion, i. 
morphetic (mor-fet'ik), a. [Irreg. < Morpheus, 
q. v., + -etic.] Pertaining to sleep; slumber- 
ous. [Rare.] 
I am invulnerably asleep at this very moment ; in the 
very centre of the morphetic domains. 
Mi*t Burney, Camilla, ii. 4. 
Morpheus (mdr'fus), n. [L. (in Ovid, the first 
classical writer who mentions Morpheus), < Gr. 
as if *M.op<t>evf, god of dreams, so called from 
the forms he calls up before the sleeper, < fiop- 
$%, form.] In the later Roman poets, a god of 
dreams, son of Sleep ; hence, sleep. 
morphewt (mor'fu), . [Also morfew, mor- 
pheavi, morpheu; < F. morphee, mor fee = Sp. 
morfea = Pg. morphea = It. morfea, morfia, < 
ML. morphea, also morpha, a scurfy eruption, 
prob. for *morp)uea (cf . equiv. morpha), prob. < 
Gr. [top/pi/, form, shape.] A scurfy eruption. 
Dunglison. 
A morpheu or staynyng of the skynne. 
Elyot, Dictionary, under Alphos, ed. 1559. (HalKwell.) 
No man ever saw a gray haire on the head or beard of 
any Truth, wrinckle, or morphew on its face. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 28. 
morphewt (mor'fu), i: t. [< morphew, n.] To 
cover with morphew. 
Whose bandlesse bonnet vails his o'ergrown chin 
And sullen rags bewray his morpheic'd skin. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. v. 28. 
Do you call this painting ? 
No, no, but you call 't careening of an old 
Morphewed lady, to make her disembogue again. 
Webster, Duchess of Main, ii. 1. 
morphia (mor'fi-a), n. [NL., < L. Morpheus, 
q. v.] Same as morphine. 
morphic (mor'fik), a. [< Gr. poptpf/, form,-!- -ic.] 
In oiol., of or pertaining to form ; morphologi- 
cal: as, a morphic character. 
The majority of specific characters are of divergent ori- 
gin are morphic as distinguished from developmental. 
E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 111. 
Morphic valence, morphological value or equivalency 
in the scale of evolution of organic forms. Thus, any or- 
ganism in the gastrula stage of development is a gastrula 
form, having the murphic valence of a gastrula. Coues. 
morphogeny 
Morphidae (mor'fi-de), n. pi. [NL., < Morpho 
+ -iflu:] The Morpliinw rated as a family. 
Morphinae (mor-fi'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Morpho 
+ -ina'.] A subfamily of nymphalid butter- 
flies, typified by the genus Morpho, with large 
wings, grooved to receive the short abdomen 
and ocellated on the under side, and filiform 
antennae. They are found in tropical America and the 
East Indian islands, with a few in continental Asia. Ten 
genera and upward of 100 species compose the subfamily. 
morphine (mor'fin), n. [< F. morphine = Pg. 
morpMiia = It. morfma, < NL. morphina, mor- 
phine, < L. Morpheus, the god of sleep: see 
Morpheus.] An alkaloid, CiyHigNC^, the most 
important narcotic principle of opium, it crys- 
tallizes in brilliant, colorless, odorless, and bitter prisms. 
It dulls pain, induces sleep, promotes perspiration, checks 
peristalsis, contracts the pupil, and is extensively used in 
medicine in the form of its soluble salts. In large doses 
it causes death with narcotic symptoms. Mplphlne or 
morphia process, in photog., a dry collodion process, 
now abandoned, in which the preservative agent was a 
bath of morphine acetate, one grain to the ounce. 
morphinism (mor'fin-izm), . [< morphine + 
-ism.] A morbid state induced by the use of 
morphine. 
That class of diseases in which morphinism, caffeism, 
and vanillism are found. The American, XII. 269. 
morphinomania (m6r ; 'fi-npTma'ni-a), n. [NL.] 
Same as morphiomania, 
morphinomaniac (m6r"fi-np-ma'ni-ak), n. 
Same as morphiomaniac. 
morphiomania (mor"fi-p-ma'ni-a), n. [< NL. 
morphia, q. v., + L. mania, madness : see mania.] 
A morbid and uncontrollable appetite for mor- 
phine or opium ; the morphine-habit or opium- 
habit. 
morphiomaniac (mor'fi-p-ma'ni-ak), n. [< 
morphiomania + -ac.] One who suffers from 
morphiomania. 
The question arose as to how morphiomaniacs procured 
the morphine. Lancet, No. 3444, p. 461. 
morphiometric (m6r*fi-p-met'rik), a. [< NL. 
morphia + Gr. fitrpov, measure.] Measuring 
the amount of morphine: as, morpJiiometric as- 
says of opium. 
Morphnus (mdrf 'nus), n. [NL., < L. morphnos, 
a kind of eagle that lives near lakes, < Gr. p6p<t>- 
vof, dusky, dark: said of an eagle.] A genus of 
South American diurnal birds of prey founded 
by Cuvierin 1817; the eagle-hawks. There is but 
one species, M. guianensis, of large size, 3 feet 
long, with a crest. Also Morphinus. 
Morpho (mdr'fo), n. [NL., < Gr. Mop^u, 'the 
shapely,' a name of Aphrodite at Sparta, < 
liopQi], form, shape.] A genus of magnificent 
nymphalid butterflies, typical of the subfamily 
Morphina;. There are upward of 30 species, mostly 
South American, some expanding over 7 inches, others of 
celestial blue hues above and ocellated below. M. achilles, 
Af. laertes, M. cypris, M. neoptolemus, and M . polyphemus 
are examples. 
morphffla (mor-fe'a), n. [NL., for morphcea, < 
ML. morphea, *mofpha;a, a scurfy eruption: see 
morphew.] A disease of the corium presenting 
multiple roundish patches, at first pinkish and 
slightly elevated, later pale, smooth, shining, 
and level or slightly depressed. There is atrophy 
of the papillary layer of the corium, and cellular infiltration 
about hair-follicles, sweat-glands, and sebaceous glands 
and vessels ; this infiltration contracts, with subsequent 
atrophy of glands, follicles, and vessels. The disease is 
allied to sclerodermia. 
morphogenesis (mor-fp-jen'e-sis), n. [NL., < 
Gr. fiop(f>>/, form, + ytveate, origin : see genesis.] 
The genesis of form ; the production of morpho- 
logical characters ; morphogeny. 
morphogenetic (m6r // fp-je-net'ik), a. [< mor- 
phogenesis + -ic: see genetic.] Of or pertain- 
ing to morphogenesis ; morphological, with spe- 
ogeny and phylogeny ; em- 
cial reference to ontog 
bryological in a broad sense; evolutionary or 
developmental, with reference to biogeny. 
morphogenic (mor-fp-jen'ik), a. Same as mor- 
phogenetic. 
morphogeny (m6r-foj'e-ni), n. [< Gr. popipt/, 
form, + 'vtveia. generation : see -geny. Cf. mor- 
phogenesis.] I. In biol., morphogenesis; the 
genesis of form; the production or evolution 
of those forms of living matter the study of 
which is the province of the science of mor- 
phology. 2. The history of the evolution of 
the forms of organisms; morphology, or the 
science of the forms of living bodies, with spe- 
cial reference to the manner in which, or the 
means by which, such forms originate or de- 
velop ; embryology in a broad sense. 
Biogeny, or the history of the evolution of organisms, 
up to the present time has been almost exclusively mur- 
phoijeny. Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), II. 401. 
