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   marlite
         n 1: metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as
               marl [syn: {marlite}, {marlstone}]

English Dictionary: marlite by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley
n
  1. heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1832)
    Synonym(s): McCauley, Mary McCauley, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Molly Pitcher
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mayoralty
n
  1. the position of mayor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Merlot
n
  1. black wine grape originally from the region of Bordeaux
  2. dry red wine made from a grape grown widely in Bordeaux and California
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
morality
n
  1. concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
    Antonym(s): immorality
  2. motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
    Synonym(s): ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
morality play
n
  1. an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Morlett's crocodile
n
  1. a variety of crocodile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mariolater \Ma`ri*ol"a*ter\, n. [See {Mariolatry}.]
      One who worships the Virgin Mary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mariolatry \Ma`ri*ol"a*try\, n. [Gr. [?] Mary + [?] worship.]
      The worship of the Virgin Mary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Marl \Marl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Marling}.] [Cf. F. marner. See {Marl}, n.]
      To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Marlite \Marl"ite\, n. [Cf. F. marlite. See {Marl}, n.] (Min.)
      A variety of marl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Marlitic \Mar*lit"ic\, a.
      Partaking of the qualites of marlite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maryolatry \Ma`ry*ol"a*try\, n.
      Mariolatry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mayoralty \May"or*al*ty\, n.
      The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Merulidan \Me*ru"li*dan\, n. [L. merula, merulus, blackbird. See
      {Merle}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A bird of the Thrush family.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mirliton \Mir"li*ton\, n. [F.]
      A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks,
      producing a coarse, reedy sound.
  
               Trilby singing [bd]Ben Bolt[b8] into a mirliton was a
               thing to be remembered, whether one would or no! --Du
                                                                              Maurier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moral \Mor"al\, a. [F., fr. It. moralis, fr. mos, moris, manner,
      custom, habit, way of life, conduct.]
      1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those
            intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue
            and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such
            intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to
            the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings
            in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so
            far as they are properly subject to rules.
  
                     Keep at the least within the compass of moral
                     actions, which have in them vice or virtue.
                                                                              --Hooker.
  
                     Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. --Dryden.
  
                     She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral
                     wilderness.                                       --Hawthorne.
  
      2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity
            with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used
            sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral
            rather than a religious life.
  
                     The wiser and more moral part of mankind. --Sir M.
                                                                              Hale.
  
      3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by
            a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
  
                     A moral agent is a being capable of those actions
                     that have a moral quality, and which can properly be
                     denominated good or evil in a moral sense. --J.
                                                                              Edwards.
  
      4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of
            right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral
            arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to
            {material} and {physical}; as, moral pressure or support.
  
      5. Supported by reason or probability; practically
            sufficient; -- opposed to {legal} or {demonstrable}; as, a
            moral evidence; a moral certainty.
  
      6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson;
            moral tales.
  
      {Moral agent}, a being who is capable of acting with
            reference to right and wrong.
  
      {Moral certainty}, a very high degree or probability,
            although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of
            so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in
            the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his
            guilt.
  
      {Moral insanity}, insanity, so called, of the moral system;
            badness alleged to be irresponsible.
  
      {Moral philosophy}, the science of duty; the science which
            treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral
            being, of the duties which result from his moral
            relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.
  
      {Moral play}, an allegorical play; a morality. [Obs.]
  
      {Moral sense}, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the
            capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral
            conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of
            education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law.
  
      {Moral theology}, theology applied to morals; practical
            theology; casuistry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Theology \The*ol"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Theologies}. [L. theologia, Gr.
      [?]; [?] God + [?] discourse: cf. F. th[82]ologie. See
      {Theism}, and {Logic}.]
      The science of God or of religion; the science which treats
      of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws
      and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the
      duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly
      understood) [bd]the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures,
      the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of
      Christian faith and life.[b8]
  
               Many speak of theology as a science of religion
               [instead of [bd]science of God[b8]] because they
               disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be
               attained.                                                --Prof. R.
                                                                              Flint (Enc.
                                                                              Brit.).
  
               Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the
               region of the intellect what religion represents in the
               heart and life of man.                           --Gladstone.
  
      {Ascetic theology}, {Natural theology}. See {Ascetic},
            {Natural}.
  
      {Moral theology}, that phase of theology which is concerned
            with moral character and conduct.
  
      {Revealed theology}, theology which is to be learned only
            from revelation.
  
      {Scholastic theology}, theology as taught by the scholastics,
            or as prosecuted after their principles and methods.
  
      {Speculative theology}, theology as founded upon, or
            influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy.
  
      {Systematic theology}, that branch of theology of which the
            aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of
            statements that together shall constitute an organized
            whole. --E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morality \Mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Moralities}. [L. moralitas: cf.
      F. moralit[82].]
      1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
            standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an
            action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the
            standard of right.
  
                     The morality of an action is founded in the freedom
                     of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the
                     agent's power, having all things ready and requisite
                     to the performance of an action, either to perform
                     or not perform it.                              --South.
  
      2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the
            conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
  
                     Of moralitee he was the flower.         --Chaucer.
  
                     I am bold to think that morality is capable of
                     demonstration.                                    --Locke.
  
      3. The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of
            men in their social character; ethics.
  
                     The end of morality is to procure the affections to
                     obey reason, and not to invade it.      --Bacon.
  
                     The system of morality to be gathered out of . . .
                     ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in
                     the gospel.                                       --Swift.
  
      4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
            conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often
            admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
  
      5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted
            of discourses in praise of morality between actors
            representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death,
            Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late
            as the reign of Henry VIII. --Strutt.
  
      6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.]
  
                     Taketh the morality thereof, good men. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morality \Mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Moralities}. [L. moralitas: cf.
      F. moralit[82].]
      1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
            standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an
            action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the
            standard of right.
  
                     The morality of an action is founded in the freedom
                     of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the
                     agent's power, having all things ready and requisite
                     to the performance of an action, either to perform
                     or not perform it.                              --South.
  
      2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the
            conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
  
                     Of moralitee he was the flower.         --Chaucer.
  
                     I am bold to think that morality is capable of
                     demonstration.                                    --Locke.
  
      3. The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of
            men in their social character; ethics.
  
                     The end of morality is to procure the affections to
                     obey reason, and not to invade it.      --Bacon.
  
                     The system of morality to be gathered out of . . .
                     ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in
                     the gospel.                                       --Swift.
  
      4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
            conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often
            admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
  
      5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted
            of discourses in praise of morality between actors
            representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death,
            Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late
            as the reign of Henry VIII. --Strutt.
  
      6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.]
  
                     Taketh the morality thereof, good men. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morulation \Mor`u*la"tion\, n. (Biol.)
      The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by
      which a morula is formed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Murrelet \Murre"let\, n. [Murre + -let.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of several species of sea birds of the genera
      {Synthliboramphus} and {Brachyramphus}, inhabiting the North
      Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Myrialiter \Myr"i*a*li`ter\, Myrialitre \Myr"i*a*li`tre\, n. [F.
      myrialitre. See {Myria-}, and {Liter}.]
      A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters.
      It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Myrialiter \Myr"i*a*li`ter\, Myrialitre \Myr"i*a*li`tre\, n. [F.
      myrialitre. See {Myria-}, and {Liter}.]
      A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters.
      It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Marlette, MI (city, FIPS 51820)
      Location: 43.32645 N, 83.08069 W
      Population (1990): 1924 (763 housing units)
      Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48453

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Marlton, MD (CDP, FIPS 50775)
      Location: 38.75813 N, 76.78989 W
      Population (1990): 5523 (1964 housing units)
      Area: 15.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Marlton, NJ (CDP, FIPS 44100)
      Location: 39.90140 N, 74.92931 W
      Population (1990): 10228 (4095 housing units)
      Area: 8.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 08053

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Morrilton, AR (city, FIPS 46970)
      Location: 35.15624 N, 92.74089 W
      Population (1990): 6551 (2891 housing units)
      Area: 21.1 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72110
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