Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

(1) - Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
(2) - Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
(3) - Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
(4) - Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

(1) - Morula (n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.

(1) - Morulation (n.) The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.