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Morris :: Morris (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played..

Worrisome :: Worrisome (a.) Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance..

Unmorrised :: Unmorrised (a.) Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer.

Morris :: Morris (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters..

Maidmarian :: Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes..

Horrisonant :: Horrisonant (a.) Horrisonous.

Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.

Horrisonous :: Horrisonous (a.) Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

Morris :: Morris (n.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish..

Orris :: Orris (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them..

Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..

Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..

Morisco :: Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture..

Morricer :: Morricer (n.) A morris dancer.

Iris :: Iris (n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce..

Orris :: Orris (n.) A sort of gold or silver lace.

Morrice :: Morrice (n.) Same as 1st Morris.

Orris :: Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

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