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morrice

morrice noun: a morris dance.

Noun

morrice (plural morrices)

  1. A morris dance.
    • The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove,
      Now to the moon in wavering morrice move;
      And on the tawny sands and shelves
      Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.1634, John Milton, Comus
    • Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Verb

morrice (third-person singular simple present morrices, present participle morricing, simple past and past participle morriced)

  1. To dance, especially a morris dance
  2. To move away rapidly; to decamp.
    • Zounds! here they are. Morrice! Prance!1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
    • Up with you, on your pins. There: now then, Morrice!1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC

Forms of morrice

Noun
pluralmorrices
Verb
third-person singular presentmorrices
present participlemorricing
past participlemorriced
pastmorriced

Words formed from morrice

Questions about morrice

What does morrice mean?
Morrice means a morris dance.
What part of speech is morrice?
Morrice can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of morrice?
The plural of morrice is morrices.

Words near morrice in the dictionary

  1. morrhuates
  2. morrhuic acid
  3. morrhuol
  4. Morrical
  5. Morricals
  6. morrice
  7. morriced
  8. morricer
  9. morricers
  10. morrices
  11. morricing

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