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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]

3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Mop head. (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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