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- noun Plural form of
morse .
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Examples
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Saturday (1) I went ashore, and there I saw three morses that they had killed: they held one tooth of a Morse, which was not great, at a roble, and one white beare skin at three robles and two robles: they further tolde me, that there were people called
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After examining this city of morses, I began to think of returning.
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As to the seals and morses, accustomed to live in a hard climate, they remained on these icy shores.
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Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses.
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Russian name of morses, which were with difficulty driven away.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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The Iberian goldsmiths and iron-workers still certainly produced their famous grilles, jewels, morses, chalices, and crucifixes while in needle-work the finest workers of Castile were elaborating some of the most perfect examples of church vestments that have ever been produced.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Abundant proof of the desire for costly clasps for the cope is shown by the old inventories and by the numerous medieval morses preserved (especially in Germany) in churches and museums.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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They especially include reliquaries, morses, and crosiers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The coasts of the ocean are enlivened by flocks of seals and morses; its waters, by shoals of sociable cetaceans; and even in the depths of the great plateau of Central
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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Some human beings still lingered on the coast hunting morses and camping under the snow.
The Fur Country 1874
bilby commented on the word morses
This plural suggests some kind of animal, perhaps a pinniped, though it's hard to find much at the singular.
April 22, 2019