Mora
[mɔ:rә]
Definition
(n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
(n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
(n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
Editor: Lyle
Definition
n. (law) delay esp. unjustifiable.
n. an ancient game played from China to Peru the aim being to guess the number of fingers held out by a player.
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Examples
- Captain Mora, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Captain Mora got down from the boulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had always, to quote his own rather nebulous statement, considered the correctness of a distant mathematical result to be the subject of mora l rather than of mathematical evidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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