Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Mortification (n.) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
(2) - Mortification (n.) That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
(3) - Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
(4) - Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
(5) - Mortification (n.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
(6) - Mortification (n.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
(7) - Mortification (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified

(1) - Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
(2) - Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
(3) - Mortify (v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
(4) - Mortify (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
(5) - Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
(6) - Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
(7) - Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

(1) - Mortifying (a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
(2) - Mortifying (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
(3) - Mortifying (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
(4) - Mortifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify

(1) - Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
(2) - Mortise (v. t.) To cut or make a mortisein.
(3) - Mortise (n.) A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.