Jack. - Horntip

Moral. 354 More.
1690. B. E., Did. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1841. Tai/'s Edinburgh Rev., Viii.
222. Slily to my fob repair, And leave
me not a moPus there.
3. in pl. (moPussEs).-Money.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., S.V. MOPUSSES
Money.
1824. EGAN, Boxiana, iv. 443. Ned
not baying the MOPUSSES to spare.
1834. AINSWORTH, Rookwood,I. ix.
P. 55. Then whose inclinations are so
uncontrolled as the highwayman's, so
long as the MOPUSES last ?
1842. Punch, Prolusiones Etymoligiere,'
p. 16. He that has the MOPUSSES
May buy diamonds and topazes.
1844. CHARLES SELBY, London by
Night, ii. I.Ned. I see an improvement in
the financial position-lucky, like myself.
.7ack. (Aside.) Lots of moPussEs.
1859. MATsELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
1883. Punch. 3 Nov., p. 210, col.
I. But what's that to us, so's we pull in
the MOPUSSES.
MORAL, subs. (colloquial).-I. An
exact counterpart.
1590. H. CONSTABLE, Sonnets, Decade
4. Fooles be they that inveigh
'gainst Mahomet who's but a MORRAL of
loves monarchic.
1726. SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels,
v. have seen the MORAL of my own
behaviour very frequent in England.'
1771. SMOLLETT, Humphrey Clinker,
385. The long chin is the very MORAL
of the governor's.
1789. G. PARKER, Life's Painter,
'The Bunter's Christening.' A chopping
boy ; Which was, as one might say, The
MORAL of his dad, Sir.
1851. DOUGLAS JERROLD, St. Giles
and St. games, no. She's the very
pictur-yes, the very MORAL of Dick
Turpin's Bess.
1882. Graphic, 9 Dec., p. 643, col.
2. They are, for the most part, very
dungeon-like rooms ; and the ventilation
of the ordinary prison cell-yes, we have
tried it-is a MORAL by comparison.
2. (racing).-See quot. 1869.
[Abbreviation of moral certainty : '
see CERT].
1869. GREENWOOD, Seven Curses
of London, 397. Everything that is highly
promising becomes, in the slang of the
advertising tipster, a MORAL.
1877. Belgravia, xxxii. 241. To
invest a sovereign or two for her on what
they may consider a MORAL.
1879. JAS. PAYN, High SPirits
(Number Forty-seven). 'Come, Bob,'
said my master, that disposes of your
friend Adamson's having had anything
to do with it, which you thought such a
MORAL.'
1880. A. TROLLOPE, The Duke's
Children, lxxiv. I think that we shall
beat Cambridge this year to a MORAL,'
said Gerald.
1883. Referee, 25 larch, p. 1, col.
x. She landed the stake with much ease,
and thereby upset what at first appeared
one of the biggest coursing MORALS upon
record.
1888. N. GOULD, Double Event,
p. 178. Lord Mayfield went into ecstasies
over him, and said the double looked
a MORAL.
1889. Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday,
6 July. Cucumber was, to use the words
of a sporting friend of Pottle's, a MORAL.
1891. Lie. Viet. Gaz., 3 April.
An idea of the strength of the MORAL
may be gathered when it is stated that
in a field of fifteen 6 to 4 was freely
taken about the Danebury horse.
1892. MILLIKEN, 'Arry Ballads,
p. 62. Hangling isn't my mark, that' s
a MORAL, and fishermen mostly is fools.
MORAL-SHOCKER, subs. (Fleet St.).
-A novel dealing with sex. Also
HILL-TOPPER.
MORAY-COACH, subs. (Scots').-See
quot.
1808-25. JAMIESON,Dia.,S.V.MORAY-
COACH, a cart. A cant term, used in
ridicule. . . ; like the phrase, a Tyburn
coach.
MORE. See ELBOW, POWER, SACKS,
SEVEN, TWELVE.
MORE SO, adv. (common).- A
general intensitive : see quots.
1892. HUME, NISBET, Bushrangers
Sweetheart, viii. But that distant pro-