- 2. Blockhead, simpleton, fool, dunce, dolt.
Moonish, a. Variable, fickle, flighty, changeable, inconstant.
Moonlight, n. Moonshine.
Moon-shaped, a. Crescent-shaped.
Moonshine, n.
- 1. Moonlight.
- 2. Nonsense, trash, stuff, twaddle, fudge, flummery, balderdash, pretence, fiction, empty show, fustian,
vanity.
Moonstricken, Moonstruck, a. Lunatic, simple, foolish, idiotic, hazy, silly, bewildered.
Moor, n.
- 1. Heath, extensive waste.
- 2. Mauritanian.
- 3. Blackamoor, negro, colored person.
Moor, v. a. Secure, fasten, fix firmly.
Moor-buzzard, n. Harpy, duck-hawk, marsh-harrier (Circus œruginosus).
Moor-cock, n. Gorcock, red grouse, moor-fowl, moor-game, red ptarmigan, red game (Lagopus Scoticus).
Moor-hen, n. Gallinule, water-hen, spotted crake (Gallinula chloropus, or Crex porzana).
Moorish, a Moresque, arabesque.
Moory, a. Moorish, marshy, fenny, boggy, watery.
Moose, n. Elk, moose-deer (Cervus alces or Alces malchis).
Moose-deer, n. See Moose
Moot, v. a. Debate, discuss, dispute, argue, agitate.
Mooted, Moot, a. Debatable, disputable, disputed, unsettled, in question.
Mop-board, n. Skirting, wash-board, skirting-board, surbase.
Mope, v. n.
- 1. Be sad, be gloomy, be dejected, look downcast, look blue, wear a long face.