Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Mortality (n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
(2) - Mortality (n.) Death; destruction.
(3) - Mortality (n.) Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
(4) - Mortality (n.) Human life; the life of a mortal being.
(5) - Mortality (n.) The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

(1) - Mortally (adv.) In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.
(2) - Mortally (adv.) In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.
(3) - Mortally (adv.) In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

(1) - Mortar (n.) A chamber lamp or light.
(2) - Mortar (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
(3) - Mortar (n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
(4) - Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45Á, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
(5) - Mortar (n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

(1) - Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
(2) - Mortgage (v. t.) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
(3) - Mortgage (n.) State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
(4) - Mortgage (n.) A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.