Moro
those inhabitants of the Philippine Islands living in the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao who are Mohammedans. Most of them live in rude boats near the coast and wander from place to place wherever the fishing is good. Others of them live like the "lake dwellers" on houses erected on piles over the streams and ponds. They barbarism and are are in a rude stage of a cruel and warlike race. Polygamy and slavery are practiced among them, and as far as they have any government it is patriarchal. The Sultan of Sulu is supposed to be the supreme ruler, but his actual authority is small over the more distant groups.
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Moroxite
the crystallized form of apatite, occurring in crystals of a brownish or greenish-blue color.
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Morphic Strata
in geology, the term-first proposed by Lyell in 1833, and since universally adopted for the stratified crystalline rocks-that is, rocks which have been presumably laid down originally by the action of water, and then transformed by fire, chemical agency, pressure, or all combined. Metamorphic action is divided into local-affecting only small portions of rock, or small areas, and regional-affecting rocks over considerable regions. The metamorphic rocks constitute one of the five great classes of rocks. The chief are gneiss, eurite, hornblende schist, serpentine, actinolite schist, mica-schist or micaceous schist, clay slate, argillaceous schist or argillite, chlorite schist, schist, quartzite or quartz rock, and crystalline or metamorphic limestone. Besides these which were probably the first sedimentary, the other classes of rocks have in places undergone metamorphosis.
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Morphine
. See Opium 2026 Editor's Note: Morphine addiction — the 'army disease' of Civil War veterans — was the quiet epidemic of this entry's era, fed by patent medicines. The 1914 Harrison Act ended the open sale this article takes for granted. (Ed: BR 2026-06-01)
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Morphine
or MORPHIA, in chemistry, C17H19NO3. Morphinum. The most important of the opium bases, discovered by Sertürner in 1816. It is obtained by decomposing an aqueous extract of opium by chloride of barium, and allowing the chloride of morphia to crystallize out. The crystals, which contain codeine, are dissolved, and the morphine is then precipitated by ammonia, and finally lizes from alcohol in colorless, lustrous, trimetric prisms, soluble in 500 parts of boiling water, easily soluble in alcohol, but insoluble in ether and chloroform. Morphine forms well defined salts with mineral and organic acids. The most characteristic and best defined salt is the hydrochloride, which crystallizes in slender, colorless needles, arranged in stellated groups, soluble in 20 parts of cold water, and in its own weight at the boiling heat.
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Morphology
that branch of natural science which treats of the laws, form, and arrangement of the structures of animals and plants, treating of their varieties, homologies and metamorphoses; the science of form. Morphology teaches that most organs of a plant, including the bracts, sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, ils, are modifications of leaves. With regard to animals, it investigates the tissues of which their structures are composed, the states through which each animal has to pass before reaching maturity, and the modifications of form which the same organ undergoes in different animals. For instance, the hand of a man, the forefoot of a mole, adapted for digging, are only modifications of one type. Morphology treats also of serial homologies in the same animal, and of homogeneous and homoplastic homologies of organs.
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Morrell, Theobald
(See Spiritualism .) Morse, J. J.: A well-known English trance or inspirational medium who began to practice about 1870. Early in his career the phenomenon of "elongation" was witnessed in connection with him, but these physical manifestations soon ceased, and he developed trance-speaking faculties of a high order, and delivered numerous eloquent discourses to spiritualists throughout the country.
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Morris
ROBERT, an America at an early age, he embarked in Coming to mercantile business in Philadelphia, and in the Revolution took a prominent part inpholding the National cause. 1775, he was elected to Congress, and in In 1781' appointed Superintendent of Fi- He died in Philadelphia, Pa., nance. May 8, 1806.
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Morris
SIR EDWARD PATRICK, Newfoundland statesman; born at St. John's in 1859, he studied at Ottawa University, and after being called to the bar was elected in 1885 to the legislature. From 1890 to 1895 he was Attorney-General and in the following years led in the campaign of the reorganization of the railroads. From 1903 onward he was head of the Justice Department and in 1909 became Premier. He represented Newfoundland in London on the French shore question, and at the Imperial Conpurified by recrystallization. It crystal-ference in 1.911. He was knighted in 1904, and made Privy Councillor seven years later. The legal work known as "Morris's Reports" are his chief contribution to literature.
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Morris (CLARA an American actress born)
CLARA, an American actress; born in Toronto, Canada, in 1849; was taken to Cleveland, O., when an infant. In 1869 she became the leading lady in Wood's Theater, Cincinnati, O., and a year later joined Daly's Fifth Avenue Company, New York. She soon achieved prominence in emotional rôles, and afterward made many tours throughout the United States. Her leading rôles include Camille; Alixe; Miss Multon; Mercy Merrick in "The New Magdalene"; Cora in "L'Article 47"; etc. She is the author of "A Silent Singer"; "Little Jim Crow"; "Autobiography of Clara Morris"; "A Paste-Board Crown"; etc.
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Morris (GOUVERNEUR American story)
GOUVERNEUR, American story writer and novelist; born in New York, 1876. Educated at Yale University, graduating in 1898. Engaged in literary work, contributing stories to magazines, which were collected and published in book form. Has also written scenarios for the moving-picture screen. His published works include: "A Bunch of Grapes" ( 1897); "Tom Beauling" (1901); "The Pagan's Progress" (1904); "Ellen ; " Aladdin O'Brien" (1902); and Her Man" (1904); and Other Stories" (1908); "Putting on ); " The Footprint, the Screws" (1909 ); "Spread Eagle" (1910); "The Voice in the Rice" (1910); "It, and Others" (1912); "If You Touch Them They Vanish" (1913); "The Incandescent Lily" (1914); "His Daughter" ( 1918); "The Wild Goose" (1919). MORRIS, SIR LEWIS, an English poet ; born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1833. He was where in 1855 he was graduated firsteducated at Oxford, class in classics, and won the Chancellor's prize; practiced law till 1881, then honorary secretary, afterward treasurer, to the University of Wales; in 1877 elected an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; was knighted in 1895. He wrote: "Songs of Two Worlds" (1872, 1874, and 1875); "The Epic of Hades" (1876); "Songs Unsung "; "Idylls and Lyrics," etc. He died Nov. 12, 1907. financier, and a signer of the Declaration American of Independence; born in Lancashire, England, Jan. 20, 1734.
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