Monthly Month"ly adverb 1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly . Shak.

2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [ Obsolete] Middleton.

Monticle Mon"ti·cle noun [ Latin monticulus , dim. of mons , montis , mountain: confer French monticule . See Mount , noun ] A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [ Written also monticule .]

Monticulate Mon·tic"u·late adjective Furnished with monticles or little elevations.

Monticule Mon"ti·cule noun See Monticle .

Monticulous Mon·tic"u·lous adjective Monticulate.

Montiform Mon"ti·form adjective [ Latin mons , montis , mountain + -form .] Resembling a mountain in form.

Montigenous Mon·tig"e·nous adjective [ Latin montigena ; mons , montis , mountain + the root of gignere to beget.] Produced on a mountain.

Montoir Mon`toir" noun [ French, from monter to mount. See Montant .] A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.

Monton Mon"ton noun [ Spanish ] (Mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

Montre Mon"tre noun [ French, show, show case, organ case.] 1. (Organ Building) A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes "shown" as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.

2. A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged.

Montross Mon·tross" noun See Matross . [ Obsolete]

Montrue Mon"true noun [ French, from monter to mount. See Montoir .] That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Monument Mon"u·ment noun [ French, from Latin monumentum , from monere to remind, admonish. See Monition , and confer Moniment .] 1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

Of ancient British art
A pleasing monument .

Philips.

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments .

Shak.

2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument ; the Bunker Hill monument . Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.

On your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.

Shak.

3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.

Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days.

Foxe.

Syn. -- Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

Monumental Mon`u·men"tal adjective [ Latin monumentalis : confer French monumental .] 1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." Milton.

A work outlasting monumental brass.

Pope.

Monumentally Mon`u·men"tal·ly adverb 1. By way of memorial.

2. By means of monuments.

Monureid Mon·u"re·id noun [ Mon- + ureid .] (Chemistry) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid . [ Written also monureide .]

Moo Moo (mō) adjective , adverb , & noun See Mo . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Moo Moo (mō) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mooed ; present participle & verbal noun Mooing .] [ Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- a child's word.

Moo Moo noun The lowing of a cow.

Mood Mood (mōd) noun [ The same word as mode , perhaps influenced by mood temper. See Mode .] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood ; the infinitive mood ; the subjunctive mood . Same as Mode .

Mood Mood noun [ Middle English mood , mod , Anglo-Saxon mōd mind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to Old Saxon & OFries. mōd , Dutch moed , Old High German muot , German muth , mut , courage, Dan. & Swedish mod , Icelandic mōğr wrath, Goth. mōds .] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood ; a suppliant mood .

Till at the last aslaked was his mood .

Chaucer.

Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything.

Shak.

The desperate recklessness of her mood .

Hawthorne.

Mooder Moo"der noun Mother. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Moodily Mood"i·ly (mōd"ĭ*lȳ) adverb In a moody manner.

Moodiness Mood"i·ness noun The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

Moodir Moo"dir noun [ Arabic mudīr .] The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [ Written also mudir .]

Moodish Mood"ish adjective Moody. [ Obsolete]

Moodishly Mood"ish·ly adverb Moodily. [ Obsolete]

Moody Mood"y (-ȳ) adjective [ Compar. Moodier ; superl. Moodiest .] [ Anglo-Saxon mōdig courageous.] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe.

Arouse thee from thy moody dream!

Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.

Moolah, Moollah Moo"lah, Mool"lah noun See Mollah .

Moolley Mool"ley noun Same as Mulley .

Moon Moon (mōn) noun [ Middle English mone , Anglo-Saxon mōna ; akin to Dutch maan , Old Saxon & Old High German māno , German mond , Icelandic māni , Danish maane , Swedish måne , Goth. mēna , Lithuanian menů , Latin mensis month, Greek mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Sanskrit mās moon, month; probably from a root meaning to measure (cf. Sanskrit mā to measure), from its serving to measure the time. √271. Confer Mete to measure, Menses , Monday , Month .] 1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month , under Month .

The crescent moon , the diadem of night.

Cowper.

2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.

4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon .

Moon blindness . (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks . (b) (Medicine) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial , a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face , a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness , lunacy. [ Poetic] -- Moon month , a lunar month. -- Moon trefoil (Botany) , a shrubby species of medic ( Medicago arborea ). See Medic . -- Moon year , a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

Moon Moon transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mooned ; present participle & verbal noun Mooning .] To expose to the rays of the moon.

If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned .

Holland.

Moon Moon intransitive verb To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Elsley was mooning down the river by himself.

C. Kingsley.

Moon-culminating Moon"-cul"mi·na`ting adjective Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.

Moon-eye Moon"-eye` noun 1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.

2. (Zoology) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon , esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.

Moon-eyed Moon"-eyed` adjective Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

Moon-faced Moon"-faced` adjective Having a round, full face.

Moonbeam Moon"beam` noun A ray of light from the moon.

Moonblind Moon"blind` adjective Dim-sighted; purblind.

Moonblink Moon"blink` noun A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia .

Mooncalf Moon"calf` noun 1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.

2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

Mooned Mooned adjective Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned horns." " Mooned Ashtaroth." Milton.

Mooner Moon"er noun One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [ R.] Dickens.

Moonery Moon"er·y noun Conduct of one who moons. [ R.]

Moonet Moon"et noun A little moon. [ R.] Bp. Hall.

Moonfish Moon"fish` noun (Zoology) (a) An American marine fish ( Vomer setipennis ); -- called also bluntnosed shiner , horsefish , and sunfish . (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ( Selene vomer ); -- called also lookdown , and silver moonfish . (c) The mola. See Sunfish , 1.

Moonflower Moon"flow`er noun (Botany) (a) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy . (b) A kind of morning glory ( Ipomœa Bona-nox ) with large white flowers opening at night.

Moong Moong noun (Botany) Same as Mung .

Moonglade Moon"glade` noun The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [ Poetic]

Moonie Moo"nie (mō"nĭ) noun (Zoology) The European goldcrest.

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