Defn: A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, — much played by Italians of the lower classes.
MORA
Mo"ra, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
MORA
Mo"ra, n. Etym: [L.] (Rom. & Civil Law)
Defn: Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
MORAINE Mo*raine", n. Etym: [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. mürbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. mla to relax.] (Geol.)
Defn: An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.
Note: If the moranie is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moranie; if at the side, a lateral moranie; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moranie. See Illust. of Glacier. In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral moranies of the branches of the glacier. A ground moranie is one beneath the mass of ice.
MORAINIC
Mo*rain"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a moranie.