momentousness (momentusnes)

The Momier (mom'i-ér), n. [F., lit. a mummer: see mummer.] A term of reproach applied to those Swi Calvinists who, about 1818, separated from the state church and maintained a strict Calvin is tic theology and Methodistic discipline. momisht (mo mish), a. [ mome1 + -ish1 .] Fool- ish; dull. Levins. Thy pleasant framed style Discovered lyes to momish mouthes. Verses prefixed to Googe's Eglogs. ( Davies.) momismt (mõ'mizm), n. [ Momus , 1, + -ism .] Carping; faultfinding. Minsheu . momist (mō'mist), n. [ Momus , 1, + -ist.] A faultfinder. As for the crabbed & critic all interpretation of many, I waigh it little, and le e the detracting speeches of barking Momists . Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 111. mommeryt, n. An obsolete form of mummery . mommickt, n. [Var. of mammock , n.] A scare- crow. [Prov. Eng.] mommick (mom'ik), v . t. [Var. of mammock , v .] To cut awkwardly; me or make a me of: as, he mommicks his food. [Obsolete or prov.] mommy (mom'i), n.; pl. mommies (-iz). [A var. of mammy ; cf. old-wife, old- squaw , old - granny , etc.] A duck, Hareld a glacial is , the old-wife or south-southerly. [Cape May, New Jersey.] Momordica (mō-môrdi-kä), n. [NL. (Tourne- fort, 1700), so called in allusion to the seeds, which have the appearance of being bitten; mordēre (perf. momordi ), bite: see mordant .] A genus of plants of the natural order Cucur- bitaceæ and the tribe Cucumerineæ , character- ized by the stamens being inserted below the mouth of the calyx, by the calyx being provided with two or three scales, and by having a cam- panulate corolla and simple tendrils. They are climbing herbs, either annual or perennial, having entire lobed or compound leaves and rather small white or yel- lowish flowers, which are monœcio us or diœcio us. The fruit is oblong or cylindrical, berry-like or opening into three valves, having few or many seeds. Twenty-five spe- cies are known, natives chiefly of Africa, but also of trop i- cal Asia and Australia. They are plain plants except for their fruit, which in some species is red or orange-yellow, and which bursts when fully ripe, disclosing the red-ariled seeds. Such are the species M. Balsam in a , the balsam- apple, and M. Char anti a , sometimes called balsam - pear , the best-known cultivated species. The squirting cucum- ber, which grows in the south of Europe, was formerly placed in this genus, under the name M. Elaterium , but is now regarded as the type of a distinct genus, Ecballium . momot (mõ'mot), n. Same as motmot . Momota (mō-mot a), n. [NL.] Same as Mo- motus. Shaw, 1809. Momotidæ (mō-mot'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Mo- motus + -ida.] An American family of serra- tirostral picarian birds, typified by the genus Momotus ; the motmots or sawbills. They are re- lated to the kingfishers. The tail is long and graduated, of 10 or 12 rectrices, of which the middle pair are usually long-exserted and spatula ted, forming a pair of rackets; the plumage is after shafted, the bill serrated, and the ster- num doubly fenestrated; there are no cæca nor spinal apterium; and there are two carotids. The Momotidæ are confined to the warmer parts of America. There are state or quality of being momentous or of grave only about 15 species, of the genera Momotus, Crybelus, Ba importance. IMG:content-0856.png:[blocks in formation] Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 225. momentum (mo-men'tum), n.; pl. momenta (-tä). [ flesh is. energy . ryphthengus, Eumomota, Prionorhynchus, and Hylomanes. The family is also called Prion i tide. See motmot. Momotinæ (mō-mō-tīnē), n. pl. [NL., Blue-headed Sawbill ( Momotus caruleiceps). so far north as the Mexican border of the United States. Also Momota, Baryphonus, and Prionites. See motmot. Momus (mõ'mus), n. [NL., 2. In ornith., a genus of humming-birds, of the family Trochi lidæ, the type of which is M. ida liæ of Brazil. Mulsant and Verreaux, 1866. - A disciple or a son (or daughter) of Momus, a facetious or funny person; a wag; a clown in a circus. "I do not think that Wickam is a person of cheerful spirits, or what one would call a " " A daughter of Dickens , Dombey and Son, viii. Momus," Mi Tox softly suggested.