1. The person or thing that calms or restrains. Hope, that sweet moderator of passions, as Simonides calls it. Burton, Anat. of Mel. p. 694. Angling was, after tedious study, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, and a procurer of contentedness. Walton, Angler. 2. One who presides in a disputation, to restrain the contending parties from indecency, and confine them to the question. More. Sometimes the moderator is more troublesome than the actor. Bacon, Essays. How does Philopolis seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practised moderator? The first person who speaks when the court is set, opens the case to the judge, chairman, or moderator of the assembly, and gives his own reasons for his opinion. Watts. MODERN. n. s. [moderne, French; from modernus, low Latin; supposed a casual corruption of hodiernus. "Vel potius ab adverbio modo modernus, ut a die diurnus. Ainsworth.] 1. Late; recent; not ancient; not antique. Some of the ancient, and likewise divers of the modern writers, that have laboured in natural magick, have noted a sympathy between the sun and certain herbs. The glorious parallels then downward bring To modern wonders, and to Britain's king. 2. In Shakspeare, vulgar; mean; common. Bacon. Prior. Trifles, such as we present modern friends withal. Shakspeare. Scribblers send us over their trash in prose and verse, with abominable curtailings and quaint modernisms. Swift. MODERNIST. n. s. [from modernism.] One who admires the moderns. The base, detracting world would not have then dared to report, that Wotton's brain had undergone an unlucky shake, which even his brother modernists themselves, like ungrates, do whisper so loud, that it reacheth up to the very garret I am now writing in. Swift, Tale of a Tub, § 9. MODERNNESS. n. s. [from modern.] Novelty. MODEST. adj. [modeste, Fr. modestus, Lat.] 1. Not arrogant; not presumptuous; not boastful; bashful. Antiochus wept, because of the sober and modest behaviour of him that was dead. 2 Macc. iv. 37. Your temper is too modest, Too much inclin'd to contemplation. Beaum. and Fl. Pilgrim. Of boasting more than of a tomb afraid; A soldier should be modest as a maid. 2. Not impudent; not forward. Resolve me with all modest haste, which way Young. Thou might'st deserve, or they impose this usage. Shakspeare. Her face, as in a nymph display'd A fair fierce boy, or in a boy betray'd The blushing beauties of a modest maid. 3. Not loose; not unchaste; decent. Dryden, Ovid. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband. Shakspeare. That women adorn themselves in modest apparel. 1 Tim.ii.9. 4. Not excessive; not extreme; moderate; within a mean. There appears much joy in him, even so much that joy could not shew itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness. Shakspeare. During the last four years, by a modest computation, there have been brought into Brest above six millions sterling in bullion. Addison. MO'DESTLY. adv. [from modest.] 1. Not arrogantly; not presumptuously. I may modestly conclude, that whatever errors there may be in this play, there are not those which have been objected to it. Dryden, Don Sebastian. Tho' learn'd, well-bred; and tho' well-bred, sincere, Modestly bold, and humanly severe. First he modestly conjectures, Pope. The justice With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances. Shakspeare. We have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. MODERNS. n. s. Shakspeare. Those who have lived lately, op posed to the ancients. There are moderns who, with a slight variation, adopt the opinion of Plato. Boyle on Colours. Pope. Some by old words to fame have made pretence; Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense! To MODERNISE. v. a [from modern.] To adapt ancient compositions to modern persons or things; to change ancient to modern language. Another copy of this poem, but greatly altered and somewhat modernized, is preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh. Bp. Percy, Ess. on the Anc. Metrical Romances. He modernised the more antient narratives of the miracles and martyrdoms of the most eminent eastern and western saints. Warton, Hist. E. P. ii. 191. MODERNISER. n. s. [from modernise.] One who adapts ancient compositions to modern persons or things. Mr. Neville, no unsuccessful modernizer of the Latin satyrists. Wakefield, Mem. p. 75. MODERNISM. n. s. [from modern.] Deviation from the ancient and classical manner. A word invented by Swift. To proceed modestly, is also an honourable quality in him that conquereth; for, in prosperous fortunes, men do hardly refrain covetous and proud doings; yea, some good and great captains have, in like cases, forgotten what did best become them. Ralegh, Arts of Empire, ch. 23. MODESTY. n. s. [modestie, Fr. modestas, Lat.] 1. Not arrogance; not presumptuousness. They cannot, with modesty, think to have found out absolutely the best which the wit of men may devise. Hooker. 2. Not impudence; not forwardness: as, his petition was urged with modesty. A narrow lace which runs along the upper part of the stays before, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty-piece. Addison, Guardian. MODIA'TION. n. s. [modiatio, Lat.] A measure Not in use. That they should be free, throughout England and Normandy, of all custom, tolls, and modiations of wine. Tovey, Anglia Jud. p. 63. MODI CITY. 1. s. [modicité, Fr. from modicus, Lat.] Moderateness; meanness; littleness. Not now in Cotgrave, and Sherwood. MO'DICUM. 1. S. [Latin.] Small portion; pittance. What modicums of wit he utters: his evasions have ears thus long. Shakspeare, Troil, and Cress. use. Though hard their fate, A cruise of water, and an ear of corn, Yet still they grudg'd that modicum. Dryden. MODIFIABLE. adj. [modifiable, Fr. Cotgrave.] That may be diversified by accidental differences. It appears to be more difficult to conceive a distinct, visible image in the uniform, invariable, essence of God, than in variously modifiable matter; but the manner how I see either still escapes my comprehension. Locke. MODIFICABLE. adj. [from modify.] Diversifiable by various modes. TO MODIFICATE.* v. a. [from modify.] To qualify. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, not only to the modificated eternity of his mediatorship, so long as there shall be need of regal power to subdue the enemies of God's elect; but also to the complete eternity of the duration of his humanity, which for the future is co-eternal to his divinity. Pearson on the Creed, Art. 6. MODIFICATION. n. s. [modification, Fr.] The act of modifying any thing, or giving it new accidental differences of external qualities or mode. The chief of all signs is human voice, and the several modifications thereof by the organs of speech, the letters of the alphabet, formed by the motions of the mouth. Holder. The phænomena of colours in refracted or reflected light, are not caused by new modifications of the light variously impressed, according to the various terminations of the light and shadow. Newton, Opticks. If these powers of cogitation, volition and sensation, are neither inherent in matter as such, nor acquirable to matter by any motion and modification of it, it necessarily follows that they proceed from some cogitative substance, some incorporeal inhabitant within us, which we call spirit. Bentley. To MO'DIFY. v. a. [modifier, Fr.] 1. To change the external qualities or accidents of any thing; to shape. Yet there is that property in all letters, of aptness to be conjoined in syllables and words through the voluble motions of the organs that they modify and discriminate the voice without appearing to discontinue it. Holder. The middle parts of the broad beam of white light which fell upon the paper, did, without any confine of shadow to modify it, become coloured all over with one uniform colour, the colour being always the same in the middle of the paper as at the edges. Newton, Opticks. 2. To soften; to moderate; to qualify. A king after the reule is holde Of his grace He modifies his first severe decree, The keener edge of battle to rebate. To MO'DIFY. v. n. To extenuate. Dryden. After all this discanting and modifying upon the matter, there is hazard on the yielding side. L'Estrange. MODILLON. n. s. [French; modiglione, Ital. modiolus, Lat.] Modillons, in architecture, are little brackets which are often set under the Corinthian and composite orders, and serve to support the projecture of the larmier or drip: this part must be distinguished from the great model, which is the diameter of the pillar; for, as the proportion of an edifice in general depends on the diameter of the pillar, so the size and number of the modillons, as also the interval between them, ought to have due relation to the whole fabrick. Harris. The modillons or dentelli make a noble show by their graceful projections. Spectator. The entablature, and all its parts and ornaments, architrave, frieze, cornice, triglyph, metopes, modiglions, and the rest, have each an use. Dr. Warton, Ess. on Pope. MO'DISH. adj. [from mode. The vulgar use of modish has, I suppose, disgraced it. It would not, now, be endured in polite conversation, much less in polite writing. Bp. Hurd.] Fashionable; formed according to the reigning custom. For clothes, I leave them to the discretion of the modish, whether of our own or the French nation. Phillips, Theatr. Poetarum, (1675,) Pref. But you, perhaps, expect a modish feast, With am'rous songs, and wanton dances grac'd. Congreve, Juv. Hypocrisy, at the fashionable end of the town, is very different from hypocrisy in the city; the modish hypocrite endeavours to appear more vitious than he really is, the other kind of hypocrite more virtuous. Addison, Spect. MO'DISHLY. adv. [from modish.] Fashionably. Young children should not be much perplexed about putting off their hats, and making legs modishly. Locke. MO'DISHNESS. n. s. [from modish.] Affectation of the fashion. To MO'DULATE. v. a. [modulor, Lat.] To form sound to a certain key, or to certain notes. The nose, lips, teeth, palate, jaw, tongue, weasan, lungs, muscles of the chest, diaphragm, and muscles of the belly, all serve to make or modulate the sound. Grew, Cosmol. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many. Echo propagates around Each charm of modulated sound. MODULATION. n. s. [from modulate; modulation, French.] 1. The act of forming any thing to certain proportion. The more neere they approched to that temperance, and subtile modulation, of the saide superiour bodies, the more perfect and commendable is their dauncing. Sir T. Elyot, Gov. fol.65. The number of the simple original minerals have not been rightly fixt: the matter of two or more kinds being mixed together, and by the different proportion and modulation of that matter variously diversified, have been reputed all different kinds. Woodward. The speech, as it is a sound resulting from the modulation of the air, has most affinity to the spirit, but, as it is uttered by the tongue, has immediate cognation with the body, and so is the fittest instrument to manage a commerce between the invisible powers of human souls clothed in flesh. 2. Sound modulated; harmony; melody. Innumerous songsters, in the freshening shade, Their modulations mix, mellifluous. Gov. of the Tongue, Thomson, Spring, MO'DULATOR. n. s. [from modulate.] He who forms sounds to a certain key; a tuner; that which modulates. It [Poetry] is a most musical modulator of all intelligibles by her inventive variations. Derham. Whitlock, Mann. of the Eng.(1654,) p. 477. The tongue is the grand instrument of taste, the faithful judge of all our nourishment, the artful modulator of our voice, and the necessary servant of mastication. MODULE. n. s. [module, Fr. Cotgrave; modulus, Lat.] An empty representation; a model; an external form. My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered; And then, all this thou see'st, is but a clod, And module of confounded royalty. Shakspeare, K. John. The module of Minerva's temple in her own city. Dr. Bernard to Dr. Pococke, Pococke on Hos. (1685.) To MO'DULE.* v. a. [modulor, Lat.] 1. To model; to shape; to mould. O, would I could my father's cunning use, And souls into well modul'd clay infuse. Sandys, Ovid, (1638,) p. 10. 2. To modulate. Both obsolete. The nightingale,- that charmer of the night, That moduleth her tunes so admirably rare. MO'DUS. n. s. [Latin.] pensation for tithes moderate equivalent. Drayton, Polyolb. S. 13. Something paid Something paid as a comon the supposition of being a One terrible circumstance of this bill, is turning the tithe of flax and hemp into what the lawyers call a modus, or a certain sum in lieu of a tenth part of the product. Swift. MO'DWALL. n. s. [picus.] A bird, which destroys bees. Huloet. MOE. adj. [ma, Sax. See Mo.] More; a greater number. The chronicles of England mention no moe than only six kings bearing the name of Edward since the conquest, therefore it cannot be there should be more. Hooker. MOE.* n. s. A distorted mouth. See Mow. MOGU'L. n. s. [from Tamerlane, the Mongul or Mogul Tartar.] The title of the emperour of Hindostan, who was called the great Mogul. The destin'd walls Of Cambalu, seat of Cathain Can, And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir's throne, To Paquin of Sinæan kings; and thence To Agra and Lahor of great Mogul, Down to the golden Chersonese. Milton, P. L. To MO'IDER. v. a. To puzzle; to perplex. So used in the north of England. Dr. Johnson merely gives, on the authority of Ainsworth, the participle moidered, which is properly, he says, moddered or mudded, and means crazed. By moddered, which however is not an English word, we may suppose an allusion to the Teut. moddelen, modden, to toil in the mud. In some parts of England, as in Gloucestershire and Shropshire, the word is moither, or moyther; and means to confound; to tire out; to distract. MOIDO'RE. n. s. [moeda d'oro, Portuguese; moneta de auro, Latin. Clarke on Coins, p. 319.] A Portugal coin, rated at one pound seven shillings. Mo'IETY. n. s. [moitié, Fr. from moien, the middle.] Half; one of two equal parts. This company being divided into two equal moieties, the one before, the other since the coming of Christ; that part which, since the coming of Christ, partly hath embraced, and partly shall embrace, the Christian religion, we term as by a more proper name, the church of Christ. Hooker. The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in that name lay The militia was settled, a moiety of which should be nominated by the king, and the other moiety by the parliament. Clarendon. As this is likely to produce a cessation of arms among one half of our island, it is reasonable that the more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subjects should establish a truce. Addison. To MOIL. v. a. [mouiller, Fr. Dr. Johnson. Or from the Sax. mal, macula, a spot.] 1. To dawb with dirt; to defile. Then rouse thyself, O Earth, out of thy soyle, In which thou wallowest like to filthy swyne, And dost thy mind in dirty pleasures moyle. Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Love. All they which were left were moiled with dirt and mire by reason of the deepness of the rotten way. 2. To weary. [from moyle, a mule.] Knolles. No more tug one another thus, nor moil yourselves; receive Prize equal. To MOIL. v. n. 1. To labour in the mire. Chapman, Iliad. Moil not too much under-ground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain. Bacon, Essays. 2. To toil; to drudge. Exmore dialect: To moyley, or moyle and toil, to labour hard like a mule. Grose. The name of the laborious William Noy, attorney-general to Charles the First, was anagrammatised, I moyl in Law. Howell. They toil and moil for the interest of their masters, that in requital break their hearts. L'Estrange. Oh the endless misery of the life I lead! cries the moiling husband; to spend all my days in ploughing. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loaths. 1. A spot. [mal, Sax.] 2. A mule. See MoYLE. MOIST. adj. [moiste, moite, Fr.] L'Estrange. Dryden. Gay, Past. Upton 1. Wet, not dry; wet, not liquid; wet in a small degree. The hills to their supply Vapour, and exhalation dusk and moist, Sent up amain. Why were the moist in number so outdone, That to a thousand dry they are but one. Milton, P. L. Blackmore. Arbuthnot. Many who live well in a dry air, fall into all the diseases that depend upon a relaxation in à moist one. Bp. Fisher, Serm. After he had turned his face to the windowe, and dried his moisted chekes, he spake to them in this sorte. marrow. Shakspeare. Cavendish, Life of Wolsey. Write till your ink be dry; and with your tears Moist it again; and frame some feeling line. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with Job, xxi. 24. A pipe a little moistened on the inside, so as there be no drops left, maketh a more solemn sound than if the pipe were dry. Bacon, Nat. Hist. When torrents from the mountains fall no more, the swelling river is reduced into his shallow bed, with scarce water to moisten his own pebbles. MOISTENER. n. s. [from moisten.] thing that moistens. Mo'ISTFUL. adj. [moist and full.] Dryden, Æn. The person or Sherwood. Full of moisture. Her moystfull temples bound with wreaths of quivering reeds. Mo'ISTNESS. n. s. [from moist.] Pleasure both kinds take in the moistness and density of the air. Bacon, Nat. Hist. The small particles of brick or stone the least moistness would join together. Addison, Guardian. MOISTURE. n. s. [moiteur, French; from moist.] 1. State of being moist; moderate wetness. Sometimes angling to a little river near hand, which, for the moisture it bestowed upon roots of some flourishing trees, was rewarded with their shadow. Sidney. Set such plants as require much moisture, upon sandy, dry grounds. Bacon, Nat. Hist. While dryness moisture, coldness heat resists, All that we have, and that we are, subsists. 2. Small quantity of liquid. All my body's moisture Denham. Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shakspeare, Did he not dash th' untasted moisture from him? Mo'ISTY.* adj. [from moist.] Drizzling. For moistie blasts not half so mirthful be, As sweet Aurora brings in spring-time faire. Addison. Induct. to Mir. for Mag. Ainsworth. MOKES of a net. The meshes. Mo'кy. adj. Dark: as, moky weather. Ainsworth. It seems a corruption of murky. In some places they call it muggy. Dusky; cloudy. Dr. Johnson. -It may be from the Icel. mokkne, mokkr, condensatio nubium, as Serenius has observed. MOLA'SSES. See MOLOSSES. MO'LAR. adj. [molaris, Lat.] Having power to grind. The teeth are, in men, of three kinds; sharp, as the fore teeth; broad, as the back teeth, which we call the molar teeth, or grinders; and pointed teeth, or canine, which are between both. Bacon, Nat. Hist. No. 752. MO'LDWARP. See MOULDWARP. MOLE. n. s. [mole, French; molen, Teut. mola, Latin.] 1. A mole is a formless concretion of extravasated blood, which grows into a kind of flesh in the uterus, and is called a false conception. Quincy. 2. A natural spot or discolouration of the body. [from mal, Sax. macula; mael, Teut.] To nourish hair upon the moles of the face, is the perpetuation of a very antient custom. Brown, Vulg. Err. Such in painting are the warts and moles, which, adding a likeness to the face, are not therefore to be omitted. Dryden. That Timothy Trim and Jack were the same person, was proved, particularly by a mole under the left pap. Arbuthnot. The peculiarities in Homer are marks and moles, by which every common eye distinguishes him. Pope. 3. [From moles, Latin; mole, French.] A mound; a dyke. Sidon [is] straitened on the north side by the sea-ruined wall of the mole. Sandys, Journey. With asphaltick slime the gather'd beach Milton, P. L. The great quantities of stones dug out of the rock could not easily conceal themselves, had they not been consumed in the moles and buildings of Naples. Addison on Italy. Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main. Pope. 4. [talpa.] A little beast that works under ground. See MOULDWARP. Tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall; we now are near his cell. Shakspeare. What is more obvious than a mole, and yet what more palpable argument of Providence? More. Moles have perfect eyes, and holes for them through the skin, not much bigger than a pin's head. Ray on Creation. Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. Pope TO MOLE.* v. n. To clear the ground from molehills. Yorkshire. Pegge. Mo'LEBAT. n. s. [arthragoriscus.] A fish. Ainsworth. MO'LECAST. n. s. [mole and cast.] Hillock cast up by a mole. In Spring let the molecasts be spread, because they hinder the mowers. Mortimer, Husb. MO'LECATCHER. n. s. [mole and catcher.] One whose employment is to catch moles. Tusser, Husb. Get moulecatcher cunningly moule for to kill, And harrow and cast abroad every hill. MOLECULE.* n. s. [molecula, Latin.] A small mass, or portion of any body. I could never see the difference between the antiquated system of atoms, and Buffon's organic molecules. Paley, Nat. Theology, ch. 23. MO'LEHILL. n. s. [mole and hill.] Hillock thrown up by the mole working under ground. It is used proverbially in hyperboles, or comparisons from something small. You feed your solitariness with the conceits of the poets, whose liberal pens can as easily travel over mountains as molehills. The rocks on which the salt-sea billows beat, And Atlas' tops, the clouds in height that pass, Compar'd to his huge person molehills be. Sidney. Fairfax. A churchwarden, to express St. Martin's in the Fields, caused to be engraved a martin sitting upon a molehill between two Peacham on Blazoning. trees. Rowe, And the dead wake not to molest the living. MOLESTATION. n. s. [molestia, Latin. from molest.] Disturbance; uneasiness caused by vexation. Though useless unto us, and rather of molestation, we refrain from killing swallows. Brown, Vulg. Err. An internal satisfaction and acquiescence, or dissatisfaction and molestation of spirit, attend the practice of virtue and vice respectively. Norris, Miscel. MOLE'STER. n. s. [from molest.] One who disturbs. Sherwood. MOLE'STFUL. adj. [molest and full.] Vexatious; troublesome. That pride, which breaketh out to the disturbance and vexation of others, is hated as molestful and mischievous. Barrow, vol. i. S. 22. MO'LETRACK. n. s. [mole and track.] Course of the mole under-ground. The pot-trap is a deep earthen vessel set in the ground, with the brim even with the bottom of the moletracks. Mortimer. MO'LEWARP. n. s. [See MOULDWARP.] A mole. The molewarp's brains mix'd therewithal, And with the same the pismire's gall. Drayton, Nymphid. MO'LINIST.* n. s. Óne who follows the doctrine and opinions of Lewis Molina, a Spanish Jesuit, in respect to grace; an adversary of the Jansenists. MOLLIENT. adj. [molliens, Latin.] Softening. MO'LLIFIABLE. adj. [from mollify.] That may be softened. MOLLIFICATION. n. s. [mollification, French. Cotgrave.] 1. The act of mollifying or softening. For induration or mollification, it is to be inquired what will make metals harder and harder, and what will make them softer and softer. 2. Pacification; mitigation. Some mollification sweet lady. MO'LLIFIER. Cotgrave.] Bacon. Shakspeare. n. s. [from mollify; Fr. mollifieur, 1. That which softens; that which appeases. The root hath a tender, dainty heat; which, when it cometh above ground to the sun and air, vanisheth; for it is a great mollifier. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 2. He that pacifies or mitigates. The lord treasurer ever secretly feigned himself to be a moderator and mollifier of the catholicks' afflictions. Letter of 1592, in Ld. Halifax's Miscell. p. 169. To Mo'LLIFY. v. a. [mollio, Latin. mollir, Fr.j 1. To soften; to make soft. In the time of king Richard the Second, it [the language] was so mollified, that it came to be thus, as it is in the translation of Wicliffe. Camden, Rem. Ch. on Languages. Thou rainest upon us, and yet dost not always mollify all our hardness. Donne, Devot. (1624,) p. 323. 2. To assuage. Neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, restored them to health. Wisd. xvi. 12. Sores have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Isa. i. 6. 4. To qualify; to lessen any thing harsh or burden some. They would, by yielding to some things, when they refused others, sooner prevail with the houses to mollify their demands, than at first to reform them. Cowley thus paints Goliah: Clarendon. The valley now, this monster seem'd to fill, And we, methought, look'd up to him from our hill; where the two words seem'd and methought, have mollified the figure. Dryden, Pref. to State of Innocence. MOLO'SSE. n. s. [molossus, Lat.] A metrical foot, consisting of three long syllables. There is the smaller alcaic verse with a molosse interposed, in that noble place in the Revelation, which consists of strong and harmonious measures. Blackwall, Sacr. Class. ii. 100. MOLO'SSES. n. s. [melazzo, Italian; perhaps from MOLA'SSES. the Gr. x. The word is someS times written also melasses.] Treacle; the spume or scum of the juice of the sugar cane. We shall speak of the use of each of the said four gums, where also we may speak of honey and molasses. - Sir W. Petty, Sprat's Hist. R. S. p. 294. MOLT.* pret. of melt. Obsolete. The furies flung their snakie whips away, And molt in tears at his enchanting lay. MO'LTABLE. P. Fletcher, Purp. Isl. v. 65. adj. [from molt.] Fusible. Not in use. Huloet. MO'LTEN. part. pass. from melt. [molten, Saxon.] Brass is molten out of the stone. Job, xxviii. 2. In a small furnace made of a temperate heat; let the heat be such as may keep the metal molten, and no more. Bacon. Love's mystick form the artizans of Greece In wounded stone, or molten gold express. Prior. Mo'LY. n. s. [moly, Latin; moly, French.] A plant. Moly, or wild garlick, is of several sorts; as the great moly of Homer, the Indian moly, the moly of Hungary, serpent's moly, the yellow moly, Spanish purple moly, Spanish silver-capped moly, Dioscorides's moly, the sweet moly of Montpelier: the roots are tender, and must be carefully defended from frosts as for the time of their flowering, the moly of Homer flowers in May, and continues till July, and so do all the rest except the last, which is late in September: they are hardy, and will thrive in any soil. Mortimer, Husb. The sovereign plant he drew, And shew'd its nature and its wondrous power, Black was the root, but milky white the flower; Moly the name. Pope, Odyss. Han MOME. n. s. [This owes its original to the French Ne aught he said, whatever he did heare; Spenser, F. Q. Warner, Albion's England. A youth will play the wanton, and an old man prove a mome. |