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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Asiatic deer, Cervus wallichi.

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Examples

  • O morris! as Homer says: this is a higeous pictur of manners, such as I weap to think of, as evry morl man must weap.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • Uncle Ned sed: "Did he put up at the same way side inn wich was patternized by Jonah wen he pennitrated to that part of the morl vinyerd?"

    Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Various

  • Yet youre always scandlizing us; and now _you_ tell me youve done it on morl grounds!

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Well, we think in America that a woman’s morl number is higher than a man’s, and that the purer nature of a woman lifts a man right out of himself, and makes him better than he was.

    Act II 1903

  • O morris! as Homer says: this is a higeous pictur of manners, such as I weap to think of, as evry morl man must weap.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • One almost forgot his red nose and his big stomick, and his wicked leering i's, in his gentle insiniwating woice, his fund of annygoats, and, above all, the bewtific, morl, religious, and honrabble toan of his genral conservation.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • He made his appearans reglar at church -- me carrying a handsome large black marocky Prayer-book and Bible, with the psalms and lessons marked out with red ribbings; and you'd have thought, as I graivly laid the volloms down before him, and as he berried his head in his nicely brushed hat, before service began, that such a pious, proper morl, young nobleman was not to be found in the whole of the peeridge.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • In brakes and branAbles hid, and fliunning morl fight:

    The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

  • Of all duties, prayer certainly is the fweeteft and morl eafy. —

    The sermons of Mr. Yorick 1775

  • He made his appearans reglar at church — me carrying a handsome large black marocky Prayer-book and Bible, with the psalms and lessons marked out with red ribbings; and you’d have thought, as I graivly laid the volloms down before him, and as he berried his head in his nicely brushed hat, before service began, that such a pious, proper morl, young nobleman was not to be found in the whole of the peeridge.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

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