mokyt

An obsolete variant of mucky, muggy. molt, n. A Middle English form of mull1. mola (mō'lä), n.; pl. molæ (-lē). [NL., 2. [ cap.] In ichth., the typical genus of plectognath fishes of the family called either Molidæ or Ort hag or is cid a, having as type the sunfish or head-fish, named Orthago riscus mola by Bloch and Schneider, or M. rotunda of Cuvier and recent authors. It is a large clumsy fish of extraordinary shape, which varies much with age, inhabiting most tropical and Sunfish ( Mola rotunda). mol, soft, L. moll is, soft.] geol., a name given in Switzerland to an important geological formation belonging in part to the Miocene and in part to a position intermediate between the Eocene and the Miocene. The formation is in places over 6,000 feet thick, and chiefly of lacustrine origin. The fo il vegetation of the Mola e is of great interest, being subtropical in character, containing palms of an American type, and also the coniferous genus Se quoia, now limited to California. It is the upper member of the Mola e which contains these plant-remains, and this part of the series is made up of red sandstones, marls, and conglomerate (nagelfluh). The lower division of the Mola e is a sandstone containing marine and brackish-water shells.