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Walrus \Wal"rus\, n. [D. walrus; of Scand. origin; cf. Dan valros, Sw. vallross, Norw. hvalros; literally, whale horse; akin to Icel. hrosshvalr, AS. horshw[ae]l. See Whale, and Horse.] (Zo["o]l.) A very large marine mammal ( Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

Note: The walrus of the North Pacific and Behring Strait ( Trichecus obesus) is regarded by some as a distinct species, by others as a variety of the common walrus.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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morse

Etymology 1 n. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. (from 15th c.) Etymology 2

n. (context now rare English) A walrus. (from 15th c.)

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Morse, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000): 759
Housing Units (2000): 313
Land area (2000): 1.400671 sq. miles (3.627722 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.400671 sq. miles (3.627722 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52320
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.121628 N, 92.498500 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Morse, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 172
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.545058 sq. miles (1.411693 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.545058 sq. miles (1.411693 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49440
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 36.060645 N, 101.476470 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79062
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Morse

Morse may refer to:

  • Morse code, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps
  • Morse, an archaic word for the clasp of a cope.
Morse (crater)

Morse is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon and cannot be seen directly from the Earth. It lies about one crater diameter to the southwest of the larger Fitzgerald. To the west-northwest of Morse is Dante.

This is a relatively well-defined crater with features that have not been markedly eroded by subsequent impacts. There is a small crater along the southeastern rim, however, and the southern rim is somewhat disrupted. The rim edge is uneven in places and there are terrace features along the inner walls to the northeast and west. The interior floor, while generally level, has a number of low irregularities forming small hills.

The crater lies at the northeast margin of the Freundlich-Sharonov Basin.

Morse (provincial electoral district)

Morse is a former provincial electoral division for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, centered on the town of Morse, Saskatchewan. The district was created before the 3rd Saskatchewan general election in 1912, and abolished before the 23rd Saskatchewan general election in 1995. It was the riding of Premier Ross Thatcher.

It is now part of the Thunder Creek, Swift Current, and Wood River constituencies.

Morse (surname)

Morse as a surname of Flemish origin from old Frisian. may refer to:

Morse (album)

Morse is an album by New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith released in 1993.

Usage examples of "morse".

Morse decided to look at his notes, and quickly corrected the antepenultimate word.

Morse found himself quietly re-appraising the man who first beached and then readjusted his vast bulk in an armchair, with a series of expiratory grunts.

For the fourteenth time Morse found himself re-appraising the quirkily contradictory character that was Chief Superintendent Strange.

Pam Rude Robinson, Kimi Morse Reist, Heather Hutton Kuyk, Jane Johnson Ricker, Joan Craft Laoulidi, Tracy Palmer Berns, Kimberly Burke Sweetman and Melissa Jurgens.

Holding a pigskin glove in his left hand, he nodded to Scrimshaw and extended his hand to Morse.

Morse code, and planets, and even Therbligs, painted all over the walls of their house, either.

Erie County Detention Center at least once a week, after dark, so that Verrie could flash the car headlights as they approached the grim building, eliciting from its interior, not always or clearly, an answering sequence of flashes like Morse code, what was probably a hand-held mirror inside one of the barred windows.

Morse Hudson is the purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these three were the only ones which had been in his shop for years.

Morse to witness a test of his newly invented electric telegraph, a connection for which had been set up between Baltimore and Washing Dolley in a Matthew Brady daguerreotype of about 1848, and her home on Lafayette Square.

Morse listening to the testimony of General Taylor at the Fulbright Hearings, February 1966.

When he and Janice bought the place in 1984 you could still see from their balcony snatches of the Gulf, a dead-level edge to the world over the rooftops and broken between the raw new towers like the dots and dashes of Morse code, and in their excitement they bought a telescope and tripod at a nautical shop at the mall a mile down Pindo Palm Boulevard.

Professor Henry realized, in common with Morse and others, that if the current were to be conducted over long wires for considerable distances it would become so weak that it would not operate a receiver.

By 1837 Morse had completed a model, had improved his apparatus, had secured stronger batteries and longer wires, and mastered the use of the relay.

While working and waiting and saving, Morse conceived the idea of laying telegraph wires beneath the water.

North Korean military would read the Morse code over the communications channels rather than tap it out with a key.