mortise wheel

A wheel having holes to re ceive wooden teeth, either on the edge or face, as the case may be. Such a tooth is specifically known as a cog. mor'-tise, *mor-tize, v. t. [MORTISE, 8.] I. Literally: 1. To cut a mortise in. 2. To join with a mortise or tenon. II. Fig .: To join or unite firmly. IMG:content-1415.png:[blocks in formation] *1. Chem. & Metall .: To destroy the active pow of which appellation Sir Edward Coke offers many coners or qualities of. "This quicksilver I wol mortifie." Chaucer: C. Т., 16,594. 2. Scots Law: To dispose of by way of mortific a tion. (MORTIFICATION, II. 3.] B. Intransitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To become mortified; to gangrene. *2. To be subdued; to die away. (Said of inordi nate appetites.) 3. To practice abstinence, penance, and other acts of discipline, such as flagellation, ., from religi ous motives. (In this sense the verb is more usually reflexive.) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; jectures; but there is one which seems more probable than any that he has given us, viz., that these purchases being usually made by ecclesiastical bodies, the members of which (being profe ed) were reckoned dead persons in law, land therefore, holden by them, might with great propriety be said to be held in mortua manu."-Black stone: Comment., bk. i., ch. 18. Alienation in mortmain : [ALIENATION.] *mort-mal, 8. [Fr.mort=dead, and mal =evil.] A bad sore; a mormal (q. v.). *mort-pay, s. [Fr. mort =dead, and Eng. pay (q. v.).] Dead pay: the taking or receiving pay or wages for more soldiers than were actually serving, some being dead or discharged, or for more days than they had really served. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-1416.png:[blocks in formation] B. As adj . [Lat. mortuarius ]: Of or pertaining to a mortuary, or to the burial of the dead. †mortuary-guinea, s . (See extract.) "The mortuary - guinea is the parson's due at burials, for reading the service, church-yard fees, ."- Hull : Genuine Letters, ii. 100. mor-u-lạ, s. [Mod. Lat., dim in. of Lat. morum =a mulberry, a blackberry.] Biol.: The globular ma of cleavage cells resulting from the repeated bisection of the parent-cell (q. v.). The cells lie as close together as the drupes of a mulberry or blackberry, so that the entire surface of the round ma appears rugged. ( Haeckel : Evolution of Man , i. 189.) mör'-ŭs, s. [Lat., from Greek more a = the mulberry-tree; from moron the black mulberry.] Bot.: Mulberry; the typical genus of the order Moraceae (Morads). The fruits of the several species are eatable, but cause diarrhœa if taken in exce . Morus alba , the White Mulberry, is the one most frequently used in Europe for feeding silkworms. It has a sub-acid succulent fruit; M. nigra , the Black Mulberry, is also used for silkworms. The juice is a remedy for sore throat, and a good refrigerant in fever. The bark is purgative and a vermifuge. Nine kinds of mulberry tree-some of them species, others only varieties-occur in India. Morus alba , M. atropurpurea , M. cuspid at a , M. in dica, M. lævigata , M. serrata, M. multi caulis , М. nigra , and M. parviflora. M.serrata is valued by the Simla wood-carvers. M. indica , wild in the sub Him a lay as, is cultivated through India. The larva of the A am silkworm, Bombyx text or , is fed upon its leaves. Its stem yields a gum. Its root is an thelmintic and astringent. The fruit has an agreeable, aromatic, and acid flavor; is cooling and laxative, allays thirst, and is grateful in fevers.