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morceau: piece, slice, bit, morsel; piece, work; gun, piece
morceau de sucre: sugar cube
morceler: to break up; to divide up
morcellement: breaking up
mordable: biteable
mordamment: bitingly; mordantly
mordan: obsolete spelling of mordant
mordancer: to mordant
mordant: mordant (any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation); mordent (ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it)
mordant: biting, sharp, acrid; mordant; corrosive
mordançage: mordanting
mordicant: mordicant; biting
mordicus: tenaciously; obstinately
mordillage: nibble
mordiller: to chew (to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing)
mordoré: golden brown
mordre: to bite; to encroach
mordre la main nourricière: to bite the hand that feeds one
mordre la main qui nourrit: to bite the hand that feeds one
mordre la poussière: to bite the dust (all senses)
mordre sur sa chique: to tough it out, to gut it out, to bite the bullet
mordre à l'hameçon: to take the bait, to rise to the bait
mordu: enthusiast, buff
more: mora
more: alternative spelling of maure
moreau: jet-black horse; nosebag
moreau: jet-black in color (of horses)
morelle: nightshade
morfal: greedyguts (greedy person)
morfler: to pay, to be in for it
morfondre: to depress, bore; to cool; to mope around (wander or linger aimlessly)
morfondu: dejected
morganatique: morganatic
morganatiquement: morganatically
morgane: madly in love
morgeline: chickweed
morgue: morgue, mortuary (place where dead bodies are stored); morgue, coldness, disdain, arrogance (supercilious attitude)
moribond: moribund
moricaud: brown-skinned
morigéner: to chide
morille: morel
morillon: a type of morel (Mitrophora semilibera); tufted duck
morillon: of Saint-Moré
moringique: moringic
morinommer: to deadname
morio: mourning cloak; Camberwell beauty
morion: morion, a kind of black quartz
morion: morion, a kind of helmet
morique: moraic; moroxylic
morisque: Moorish
mormon: Mormon
mormon: Mormon
mormonisme: Mormonism
morne: gloomy, glum, dismal, dreary
mornement: gloomily, glumly, dismally, drearily
mornifler: to slap (in the face)
morné: morned (bearing a morne, a ring over the point of a lance, sword, etc.); morné; blunted
moroctique: moroctic
moron: stupid
moron: moron, idiot