Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MO-LIM'I-NOUS, a. [from L. molimen.]

Very important. [Not used.] More.

MO'LIN-ISM, n.

The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.

MO'LIN-IST, n.

A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit, in respect to grace; an opposer of the Jansenists.

MOL'LAH, n.

The title of the higher order of Turkish judges.

MOL'LI-ENT, a. [L. molliens, mollio. See Mellow.]

Softening; assuaging; lessening. [See Emollient, which is generally used.]

MOL'LIENT-LY, adv.

Assuagingly.

MOL'LI-FI-A-BLE, a. [from mollify.]

That may be softened.

MOL-LI-FI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of mollifying or softening.
2. Mitigation; an appeasing. Shak.

MOL'LI-FI-ED, pp.

Softened; appeased.

MOL'LI-FI-ER, n.

1. That which softens, appeases or mitigates.
2. He that softens, mitigates or pacifies.

MOL'LI-FY, v.t. [L. mollio; Fr. mollir. See Mellow.]

1. To soften; to make soft or tender. Is. i.
2. To assuage, as pain or irritation.
3. To appease; to pacify; to calm or quiet. Dryden.
4. To qualify; to reduce in harshness or asperity. Clarendon.

MOL'LI-FY-ING, a.

Adapted to mitigate, soften or assuage.

MOL'LI-FY-ING, ppr.

Softening; assuaging.

MOL-LUS'CA, or MOL-LUS'CAN, n. [A soft shelled nut, from L. mollis, soft.]

In zoology, a division or class of animals whose bodies are soft, without an internal skeleton, or articulated covering. Some of them breathe by lungs, others by gills; some live on land, others in water. Some of them are naked; others testaceous or provided with shells. Many of them are furnished with feelers or tentacula. Cuvier. Ed. Encyc.

MOL-LUS'CAN, or MOL-LUS'COUS, a.

Pertaining to the mollusca, or partaking of their properties. [Molluscous is used, but is less analogical than molluscan.]

MOL'LUSK, n. [See MOLLUSCA.]

MO'LOCH, n.

In scripture, the deity of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered in the valley of Tophet. [Lev. xviii. 1841]

MO-LOS'SUS, n. [Gr.]

In Greek and Latin verse, a foot of three long syllables.

MOLT, v.i. [W. moel, bald, bare, also as a noun, a heap, pile or conical hill with a smooth top; moeli, to heap or pile to make bald. So bald, in English, seems to be connected with bold, that is, prominent.]

To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, &c; as an animal. Fowls molt by losing their feathers, beasts by losing their hair, serpents by casting their skins, and deer their horns. The molting of the hawk is called mewing.

MOLT'EN, pp. [of Melt.]

1. Melted. [Obs.]
2. adj. Made of melted metal; as, a molten image.

MOLT'ING, n.

The act or operation by which certain animals, annually or at certain times, cast off or lose their hair, feathers, skins, horns, &c.

MOLT'ING, ppr.

Casting or shedding a natural covering, as hair, feathers, skin or horns.

MO'LY, n. [L. from Gr. μωλυ.]

Wild garlic, a plant having a bulbous root; Allium Moly. MO-LYΒ'DEN, n. [or MO-LYΒ'DE-NA; Gr. μολυβδαινα, a mass of lead.] An ore of molybdenum, a scarce mineral of a peculiar four and sometimes confounded with plumbago, from which however it is distinguished by its more shining, scaly appearance, and a more greasy feel. Encyc.

MO-LYB-DE'NOUS, a.

Pertaining to molybden, or obtained from it. The molybdenous acid of Bucholz is a salt, the bimolybdate of the deutoxyd of molybdenum.

MO-LYB-DE'NUM, n.

A metal which has not been reduced into masses of any magnitude, but has been obtained only in small separate globules, in a blackish, brilliant mass. These are brittle and extremely infusible. Nicholson. Ure. The most common natural compound of this metal is sulphuret. Brande.