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Mississippian
- noun - a native or resident of Mississippi
- from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
Moabite Stone
- - A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phoenician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).
Mollification
- noun - a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
- the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"
Mooring Tower
- noun - a tower for mooring airships
Morning Dress
- noun - a woman''s informal dress for housework
- a woman's informal dress for housework
- formal attire for men during the daytime
Morning Glory
- noun - any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day
Morning-Glory
- - A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.
Morris Dancer
- noun - someone who does a morris dance
Mortification
- noun - (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Mortifiedness
- - The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions.