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M O R 
MOR'RON, a town of the ifland of Cuba: forty miles 
north-weft of Villa del Principe. 
MORRO'NE, a town of Naples, in Lavora: eight miles 
eaft of Capua. 
MOR'ROPE, a town of Peru, near the coalt of the 
Atlantic, in the biftiopric of Truxillo, and jurifdiftion of 
Sana: 105 miles north-weft of Truxillo, near the Pacific 
Ocean. 
MORROSQUIL'LO, a bay of the Spanifh main, on the 
coaft of South America. Lat. 9. 20. N. Ion. 75.40. W. 
MOR'ROW, [See the etymology of Morn. The 
original meaning of morrow feems to have been morning, 
which, being often referred to on the preceding day, was 
underftood in time to fignify the whole day next fol¬ 
lowing.] Morning: the primary meaning. —She’s white as 
morrow's milk, or flakes new blown. Bp. Hall. 
As the pale rofe her colour loft renews 
With the frelh drops fall’n from the filver morrow , 
So Ihe revives, and cheeks impurpled fliews 
Moift with their own tears. Fairfax's Tajfo. 
The day after the prefent day.—The Lord did that thing 
on the morrow. Exod. xi. 6. 
To-morrow you will live, you always cry, 
In what far country doth this morrow lie. 
That ’tis fo mighty long e’er it arrive ? 
Beyond the Indies doth this morrow live ? 
’Tis fo far fetch’d this morrow, that I fear 
’Twill be both very old and very dear. 
To-morrow will I live, the fool does fay. 
To-day itfelf’s too late, the wife liv’d yefterday. Cowley. 
To-Mor'row, adv. On the day after this current day : 
To-morrow comes; ’tis noon; ’tis night; 
This day like all the former flies ; 
Yet on he runs to feek delight 
To-morrow, till to-night he dies. Prior. 
To-Morrow is fometimes, improperly perhaps, ufed 
as a fubftantive.— To-morrow is the time when all is to 
be reftified. Spectator. 
Our yefterday’s to-morrow now is gone. 
And ftill a new to-morrow does come on. 
We by to-morrows draw out all our ftore, 
Till the exhaufted well can yield no more. Cowley. 
MORS, Death, one of the infernal deities, born of 
Night, without a father. She was worfhipped by the 
ancients with great folemnity, and reprefented not as 
an aftually-exifting power, but as an imaginary being. 
Euripides introduces her in one of his tragedies on the 
ftage. The moderns reprefent her as a Ikeleton armed 
with a fcythe. 
MORS, an ifland of Denmark, fituated in Lymfiord 
gulf, of a very irregular form ; in length about eighteen 
miles from north to fouth, its breadth various, from one 
mile to eleven. It has on it feveral towns and numerous 
villages; the chief place is Nikioping. Lat. 56. 50. N. 
doit. 8.47. E. 
MORS. See Meurs. 
MORS'CHANSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Tambov, on the Tzna : fifty-fix miles north of Tam-, 
bov. Lat. 53.40. N. Ion. 41.34. E. 
MOR'SE, /. The lea-horfe. See Trichecus rofmarus. 
>—That which is commonly called a fea-horfe is properly 
called a morfe, and makes not out that lhape. Brown. — 
It feems to have been a tulk of the morfe or waltron, 
called by fome the fea-horfe. Woodward on Fojfils. 
MOR'SEL, f. [morceau, Fr. morfellus, low Lat. from 
morfus, a bite.] A piece fit for the mouth ; a mouthful.— 
Every morfel to a fatisfied hunger, is only a new labour 
to a tired digeftion. South's Sermons. 
Yet earn’d: thou to a morfel of this feaft, 
Having fully din’d before. Shakefpeare's Coriolanus. 
And me his parent would full foon devour 
For want of other prey, but knows that I 
Should prove a bitter morfel , and his bane, Milton's P. L. 
M O R 
A wretch is prifoner mad£, 
Whofe fleih, torn off by lumps, the ravenous foe 
In morfels cut to make it farther go. Tate's Juvenal. 
A piece; a meal.—A dog, crofting a river with a morfel of 
fleih in his mouth, faw, as he thought, another dog under 
the water, upon the very fame adventure. L'Eflrange. 
On thefe herbs, and fruits, and flowers, 
Feed firft; on each beaft next, and filh and fowl. 
No homely morfels! Milton's P. L. 
A final 1 quantity. Not proper. —Of the morfels of native 
and pure gold, he had feen fome weighed many pounds. 
Boyle. 
MORSE'LE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lys : eight miles eaft of Ypres. 
MORSEL'LI, or Mor'suli, f. Denominations given 
to thofe forms of medicine intended to be fucked in 
the mouth, as a lozenge; the word fignifying “ a little 
mouthful.” 
MORSIGL'IA, a town of the ifland of Corfica: 
twenty-one miles north-north-weft of Baftia. 
MOR'SKOM, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Nyland: fixteen miles north of Borgo. Lat. 60. 39. N, 
Ion. 25. 49. E. 
MORSO'NA, a town of Naples, in the county of Mo- 
life : fourteen miles north-eaft of Molife. 
MOR'STORFF. See Merstorf and Mortara. 
MOR'SULI. See Morselli. 
MOR'SURE, f. [ morfure, Fr. morfura, Lat.] The aft 
of biting. 
MOR'SUS,/ [Latin.] A bite. 
MOR'SUS DIAB'OLI, f. in botany. See Scabiosa. 
MOR'SUS GALLI'NAs. See Alsine and Lamium. 
MOR'SUS RA'NiE. See Hydrocharis. 
MORT, f. [French.] A tune founded at the death of 
the game: 
To be making praftis’d fmiles. 
As in a looking-glafs, and to figh, as ’twere 
The mart o’the deer; oh, that is entertainment 
My bofom likes not. Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale. 
[Morgt, Icelandic.] A great quantity. Not in elegant 
ufe, but preferved colloquially in many parts. A falmon 
in the third year of its growth, fo called by fiftiermen 
in fome parts of England. 
MORT (La), a lake of Upper Canada, where the tra¬ 
ders have a poll to purchafe furs of the Indians : forty 
miles north-north-weft from Sturgeon Lake. 
MORT d’AN'CESTOR, f. [law Fr.] The title of a 
writ to be fued out in certain cafes.—If an abatement 
happened on the death of the demandant’s father or mo¬ 
ther, brother or filler, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, 
the remedy is by an aflife of mart d’ancejlor. Blachjlone .—■ 
See Assise, vol. ii. p. 287. 
MOR'TA, a lake of Italy, in the Trevifan : five miles 
north of Ceneda. 
MORTA'GNE, a town of France, in the department 
of the north, at the conflux of the Scarpe and the Scheldt: 
eight miles north-north-weft of Conde, and eight fouth- 
eaft of Tournay. 
MORTA'GNE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Vendee. In a battle fought here in 1793, between 
the royalifts and republicans, the former are laid to have 
loft 20,000 men. It is twenty-feven miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Nantes, and thirty-three north-north-eaft of Lugon. 
MORTA'GNE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Charente : twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Saintes, and twelve weft of Pons. 
MORTA'GNE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Orme. It contains 
about 5000 inhabitants. It is fifteen miles eaftrfouth-eaft 
of Sees, and eighteen eall-north-eaft of Alengon. Lat. 
48. 31. ion. N. Ion. 0.27. E. 
MORTA'IN, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrift, in the department of the Channel: thirty miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Coutances, and fixteen eaft of Av- 
ranches. Lat. 48. 39. N. Ion. o. 51. W. 
MORTAL 
