mopish (mopish)

[ One day in his preaching he [the pastor of an Independent church in Scotland) cursed the light, and fell down as dead in his pulpit. The people carried him out, laid him upon a gravestone, and poured strong waters into him, which fetched him to life again; and they carried him home, but he was mopish . Journal of George Fox (Phila. ed.), p. 282. mopishly (mō'pish-li), adv . In a mopish man ner. Here one mopishly stupid, and so fixed to his posture as if he were a breathing statue. Bp . Hall , Spiritual Bedlam, Solil., xxix. mopishne (mo'pish-nes), n. Dejection; dullne ; stupidity. Without this [moderation], justice is no other than cruell rigour:.. sorrow, desperate mopishne e. Bp. Hall , Christian Moderation, i. 1. moplah (mopʻla), n. [E. Ind.] A Mohammedan inhabitant of Malabar in southwestern India, descended from Arabs who settled there and married native women. mopper (mop'ėr), n . A muffler. [Prov. Eng.] moppet1 moppet1 (mop'et), (mop' n. [Dim. of mop1 , prob. after moppet2 .] A grimace. ce. Davies . Albeit we see them sometimes counterfeit devotion, yet never did old ape make pretty moppet (moue). Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, iii., Author's Prol. moppet2 (mop'et), (mop'e n. [Dim. of mop2 .] 1. A puppet made of cloth; a rag-baby.-2. A young girl. Also mopsy , mopsey . Did one ever hear a little moppet argue so perversely against so good a cause? Dryden, Don Sebastian, iii. 2. 3. A lap-dog.