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Mortifying
- verb - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
- hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
- humilliate
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Mortuaries
- noun - a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Morulation
- - The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
Morus Alba
- noun - Asiatic mulberry with white to pale red fruit; leaves used to feed silkworms
Mosaic Law
- noun - the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
Mosaically
- - In the manner of a mosaic.
Mosaicisms
- noun - the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup
Mosasauria
- - An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved teeth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
Mosasaurus
- - A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.