Mormyrus (mormirus)

[NL. (cf. L. mormyr), 2. [l. c.] A species of this genus; a mormyre. morn (môrn), n. [ morgen , mergen = OS. morgan = OFries. morn = D. morgen = MLG. LG. morgen = OHG. morgan , morgen, morgin, MHG. G. morgen = Icel. morgunn , morginn = Sw. morgon = Dan. morgen = Goth. maurgins , morning; perhaps connected with OBulg. mirknati , become dark, mraků , darkne , the morning being in this view the 'dim light' of early dawn. In another view, the word is orig. 'dawn,' connected with Lith. merkti , blink, Gr. μαρμαίρειν , shine, glitter (see marble ). The same word, in the ME. form morwen , mor zen , lost the final -n (which was understood as a suffix) and became, through morze, mor we, the source of E. morrow ; while a deriv. form morning has taken the place of both forms in familiar use: see morrow, morning.] 1. The first part of the day; the morning: now used chiefly in poetry and often with personifica- tion. See morning. Whyt as morne milk. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 358. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton , P. L., i. 742. 2. Morrow: usually preceded by the: as, the morn (that is, to-morrow). [Obsolete or Scotch.] Abraham ful erly watz vp on the morne. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1001. But Duncan swore a haly aith That Meg should be a bride the morn. Burns, There was a La . The morn's morning, to-morrow morning: as, I'll be with you the morn's morning. [Scotch.] morn-daylightt, n. [ME.] The light of morning. So forth pa yd till morn - day - lyght to se. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 763. morne (môrn), n. [OF., coronal , 2 ( a ). The speare hedded with the morne. Quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, [p. 15. Yet so were they [lances] colour'd, with hookes near the mourne , that they prettily represented sheep-hookes. Mornes, 14th or 15th century. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, ii. Tilting lances with mornes , coronels, and vamplate. Jour. Brit. Archæol . A ., XXXII. 125. Mormops (môr'mops), n. [NL., ώψ , face, countenance.] A ge- 2. A small rounded hill. [French-American.] nus of tropical American phyllos to mine bats of the subfamily Lobos to mat i na: so called from the extraordinary physiognomy, which is remarkable even among the many strange Face of Mormops blainvillei. expre ions of face presented by bats. M. blain villei is the type. Also Mormoöps.