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Mormon

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.

2. The mandrill.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.

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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