ou art
dark to me, O, Duch[^o]mar, and cruel is thine arm to Morna." She then
begged him for his sword, and when "he gave it to her she thrust it
into his heart." Duch[^o]mar fell, and begged the maid to pull out the
sword that he might die, but when she did so, he seized it from her and
plunged it into her side. Whereupon Cuthullin said:

"Peace to the souls of the heroes! Their deeds were great in fight.
Let them ride around me in clouds. Let them show their features in
war. My soul shall then be firm in danger, mine arm like the
thunder of heaven. But be thou on a moonbeam, O, Morna, near the
window of my rest, when my thoughts are at peace, when the din of
war is past."--Ossian, _Fingal_, i.

_Morna_, wife of Compal, and mother of Fingal. Her father was Thaddu,
and her brother Clessammor.--Ossian.

=Mornay=, the old seneschal, at Earl Herbert's tower at Peronne.--Sir W.
Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Morning Star of the Reformation=, John Wycliffe (1324-1384).

=Morocco= or MAROCCUS, the performing horse, generally called "Bankes's
Horse." Among other exploits, we are told that "it went up to the top of
St. Paul's." Both horse and man were burnt alive at Rome, by order of
the pope, as magicians.--Don Zara del Fogo, 114 (1660).

[Asterism] Among the entries at Stationers' Hall is the
following:--_Nov. 14, 1595: A Ballad showing the Strange Qualities of a
Young Nagg called Morocco._

In 1595 was published the pamphlet _Maroccus Extaticus_, or _Bankes's
Horse in a Trance_.

=Morocco Men=, agents of lottery assurances. In 1796, The great State
lottery employed 7500 morocco men. Their business was to go from house
to house among the customers of the assurances, or to attend in the
back parlors of public-houses, where the customers came to meet them.

=Morolt= (_Dennis_), the old squire of Sir Raymond Berenger.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).

=Morose= (2 _syl._), a miserly old hunks, who hates to hear any voice but
his own. His nephew, Sir Dauphine, wants to wring out of him a third of
his property, and proceeds thus: He gets a lad to personate "a silent
woman," and the phenomenon so delights the old man, that he consents to
a marriage. No sooner is the ceremony over, than the boy-wife assumes
the character of a virago of loud and ceaseless tongue. Morose, driven
half-mad, promises to give his nephew a third of his income if he will
t