morts to net (mortston)

[ coffin. 'Tis here, Six furlongs from the chapel. What is this? Oh me! the mort stone. Sir H. Taylor , Edwin the Fair, v. 7. mortuary (môr'tu-ā-ri), a. and n. [= F. mortuaire = Sp. mortuorio = Pg. mortuario = It. mortorio, mortoro, mortuarius , belonging to the dead, ML. neut. mortuarium , also mortuorium, a mortuary, mortuus , dead: see mort2.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the burial of the dead.-Mortuary chaplet, a wreath or crown put upon the head of a corpse at the funeral ceremony and often left with it in the tomb. Such a garland was known by the Romans as corollarium . In medieval Europe these wreaths were common, especially in the case of women who died unmarried. They were sometimes made of filigree-work with gold and silver wire. - Mortuary chest, a coffer of wood or other material intended to receive the remains of bodies once buried elsewhere, when the graves have been disturbed. II. n.; pl. mortuaries (-riz). 1. In law , 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. Mortuaries, where due by custom, were recoverable in the ecclesiastical courts. The curate clamed ye beryng shete for a mortuary . Hall , Hen. VIII., an. 6. The Payment of Mortuaries is of great Antiquity. It was antiently done by leading or driving a Horse or Cow, ., before the Corps of the Deceased at his Funeral. It was considered as a Gift left by a Man at his Death, by Way of 3867 Recompence for all Failures in the Payment of Tithes and Oblations, and called a Corse-present. Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 25. 2. A burial-place. Whitlock.-3. A place for the temporary reception of the dead; a deadhouse.-4. A memorial of the death of some beloved or revered person; especially, in the seventeenth century, a sword bearing some emblem of the wearer's devotion to the memory of Charles I. and the cause of royalty. Swords of this type [cavalry sword, time of the Commonwealth] are often called mortuary , as a number of them were made in memory of Charles I., and bear his likene upon the hilt. Edgerton- Castle , Schools and Masters of Fence, p. 240. morula (mor'ö-lä), n.; pl. morula (-lē). [NL., dim. of L. morum , a mulberry: see more4 .] In embryol ., the condition (resembling a mulberry) of an ovum after complete segmentation of the vitellus or yolk and before the formation of a blastula, when the contents are a ma of cells derived by cleavage of the original and succe ively formed nuclei; a mulberry-ma of blastomeres or cleavage-cells. See monerula , blastula , gastrula , and cut under gastrulation . The number of blastomeres thus increases in geometrical progre ion until the entire yelk is converted into a mulberry-like body, termed a morula , made up of a great number of small blastomeres or nucleated cells. Huxley , Crayfish, p. 206. morulation (mor-ö-lā'shon), n. [ morula + -ation .] In embryol ., the conversion of the vitellus or yolk of an ovum into a mulberry-ma (morula) of cleavage-cells. moruloid (mor'ö-loid), a. [ morula + -oid.] Having the character of a morula; resembling a morula.