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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 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Aporia. ] (Zool.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Without pores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boron + silicate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. chlwro`s light green: cf. F. chlorose. ] 1. (Med.) The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Cf. Sp. cerozo a kind of palm tree. ] The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, lit., spear bearing; &unr_; a spear + fe`rein to bear. ] (Fine Arts) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fluorescence + -scope. ] 1. (Phys.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) A fluorescent screen, with hood to protect the eyes, used for observing the shadows cast by objects placed in the path of the X rays. -- Flu*or`o*scop"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. Examination of an object, as the human body, by exposing it to the X rays and observing the shadow cast upon a fluorescent screen; cryptoscopy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. horoscope, L. horoscopus, fr. Gr. &unr_;, adj., observing hours or times, esp. observing the hour of birth, n., a horoscope; &unr_; hour + &unr_; to view, observe. See Hour, and -scope. ] 1. (Astrol.) (a) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment. (b) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places. Heyse.

{ } n. One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aspect of the stars at the time of a person's birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perf. im- not + porosity: cf. F. imporosité. ] The state or quality of being imporous; lack of porosity; compactness. “The . . . imporosity betwixt the tangible parts.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; observing the heavenly bodies; &unr_; + &unr_; to view: cf. F. météoroscope. See Meteor. ] (Astron.) (a) An astrolabe; a planisphere. [ Obs. ] (b) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. Nidorous. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; osteo- + Gr. po`ros pore. ] (Med. & Physiol.) An absorption of bone so that the bone tissue becomes unusually porous. It occurs especially in elderly men and postmenopausal women, and predisposes the elderly to fractures of the bones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Phosphorus + -scope. ] (Physics) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. porosité. ] The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; itching + &unr_; seed. ] (Zool.) A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinæ, in the pseudonavicula stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From Sopor; cf. L. soporus, fr. sopor a heavy sleep; F. soporeux. ] Causing sleep; sleepy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Sororize. ] A woman's club; an association of women. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a heap. ] (Bot.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Spore + sac. ] (Zool.) (a) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata. (b) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable of reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Synneuroses [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; sy`n with + &unr_; a sinew, ligament. ] (Anat.) Syndesmosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. torosus full of muscle, brawny, fleshy. See Torus. ] Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being torose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of vapor; vaporous. [ 1913 Webster ]