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A month. One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
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A Moor. 1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. 2. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
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A moppet. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
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A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
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A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.
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A Mormon. 1. A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. 2. One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
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