*moro*

n. The quality of being amorous; lovingness. [ R. ] Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. amoroso, LL. amorosus. ] A lover; a man enamored. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. amoros, F. amoreux, LL. amorosus, fr. L. amor love, fr. amare to love. ] 1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or relating to, or produced by, love. “Amorous delight.” Milton. “Amorous airs.” Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Loving; fond; tender; passionate; affectionate; devoted; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an amorous manner; fondly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux. ] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. “My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion.” Southey.

-- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having an air of allure, romance and excitement; as, glamorous movie stars. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. L. humorosus, umorosus, moist. See Humor. ] 1. Moist; humid; watery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

Syn. -- Jocose; facetious; witty; pleasant; merry. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Capriciously; whimsically. [ 1913 Webster ]

We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Facetiously; wittily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Moodiness; capriciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Facetiousness; jocularity. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Geol.) The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. mora mulberry, L. morum. ] (Med.) A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n.; pl. Moros /plu>. [ Sp., moor. See moor, n. and Moros. ] 1. (Ethnol.) A member of any of the Moros, a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Islam. [ PJC ]

2. (Linguistics) Any of the languages of the Moro people, of the Austronesian language family. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from Morocco, the country. Cf. Morris the dance. ] A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mwrologi`a foolish talk, mw^ros foolish + lo`gos discourse. ] Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mw^ros foolish, stupid. ] 1. (Pedagogy) A mentally retarded person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development; an adult having the mental development of an 8-to-12-year old. A moron is considered capable of doing routine work under supervision. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. Hence, a very stupid person. [ informal, derogatory ] [ PJC ]

-- mo*ron"ic adj. -- mo*ron"ic*al*ly adv. -- mo"ron*ism n. -- mo*ron"i*ty n.

n.; Sp. pl. Morones /plu>. [ Sp. ] An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a mental age of between eight and twelve years; also used as a derogatory term. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl.; sing. Moro /sing>. [ Sp., pl. of Moro Moor. ] (Ethnol.) The Muslim tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. mw^ros stupid + sau^ros lizard. ] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose. ] 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. “A morose and affected taciturnity.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Sourly; with sullen austerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sourness of temper; sulenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mw`rwsis, fr. mw^ros silly, foolish. ] (Med.) Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. morositas: cf. F. morosité. ] Moroseness. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mwro`s foolish + sofo`s wise. See also sophomore. ] A philosophical or learned fool. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Morose. [ Obs. ] Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a sort of pipe clay. ] (Min.) A variety of apatite of a greenish blue color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A morate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. morus a mulberry tree + Gr. &unr_; wood. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nemorosus. ] Woody. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; pointedly foolish; 'oxy`s sharp + mwro`s foolish. ] (Rhet.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. rumoreux, It. rumoroso, romoroso. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Famous; notorious. [ Obs. ] Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Murmuring. [ Obs. or Poetic ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear; akin to timere to fear. See Timid. ] 1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. “The timorous apostasy of chuchmen.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Tim"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Tim"or*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]