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▪ I. morris, n.1|ˈmɒrɪs|
Forms: 5 moreys, mourish, 6 mor(r)es, moreis, -yce, -ys, morrass(h)e, morreis, 6–7 moris, morrisse, 6–8 morice, 6–9 morrice, 7 morise, 6– morris.
[subst. use of morys obs. var. Moorish a.2 Cf. OF. morisque, morixe n., in the same sense.]
1. = morris-dance. † to dance the morris, to take part in a morris-dance.
1512[see monsieur 1]. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. ix. 112 Thar morisis and syk riot. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 8 All the picked youth,..footing the Morris about a May pole. 1617Moryson Itin. iv. 477 Setting vp maypooles daunsing the morris with hobby horses, bringing home the lady of the harvest. 1712Spect. No. 425 ⁋3 Four Reapers, who danced a Morrice to the Sound of Oaten Pipes. 1817Southey Wat Tyler i. i, Since we were boys together, And play'd at barley-brake, and danced the morris. 1856G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman i. ii. Poems (1857) I. 261 I'll dance the morrice, and you'll ride the horse With an alms-pipkin at your saddle-bow.
2. A body of morris-dancers.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lvii. 8 Sum lait at evin bringis in the moreis. 1554Burgh Recs. Edinb. (1871) II. 193 Vtheris that furneist the grayth to the convoy of the moris to the Abbay. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 49 The Fidler comes in with his Taber and Pipe and a whole Morice after him with Motly Visards. 1616Pasquil & Katherine i. 51 Oh, a Morrice is come, obserue our country sport. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 448 A certaine Lasse..came with others, in a Morrice vnto the Church of Enyalius. 1636Randolph in Ann. Dubrensia C 3 b, These teach that Dancing is a Iezabell,..The Morrice, Idolls.
3. transf. and fig.
1547Coverdale Old Faith To Rdr., The man wyll not daunce in the deuyls morys with them. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxix. 35 Sum for þe hure garris heid þameselff, and is not þat a morreis? 1613Fletcher Captain v. i, Certainly my body Is of a wild-fire For my head rings backward Or else I have a morise in my braines. 1634Milton Comus 116 The Sounds and Seas with all their finny drove Now to the Moon in wavering Morrice move. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 23 A Chorus of Porpoises had taken the Sea in their Dance; which Morris once over, the Seas were quiet. 1892Henley Song of Sword, etc. Rhymes xi. 1 Gulls in an aëry morrice Gleam and vanish and gleam. 1894K. Grahame Pagan Papers 23 And all the attendant hurry and scurry of the human morrice.
4. attrib., as morris feast, morris garment, morris mate, morris train; morris bell, one of many small metal bells attached to the clothing of morris dancers.
1560Churchw. Acc. St. Helen's, Abingdon in Archæologia I. 17 For two dossin of *Morres belles 1s. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xiii. (1804) 70 His fears had magnified..the sound of small morrice bells to the clanking of massy chains. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. xvii. 185 A fourth way Is to tie a Morrice-Bell about the Neck of a catch'd rat.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 488 The Salij, the habite they vsed in those *Morrice-Feasts.
1507in Lysons Envir. Lond. (1792) I. 226 [Kingston upon Thames] For 4 plyts and 1/4 of laun for the *mores garments 0. 2. 11.
c1621Rowley, etc. Witch of Edmont. iii. i. (1658) 26, I pray you, good *Morrice-mates, now leave me.
1802Wordsw. To Daisy 17 In shoals and bands, a *morrice train, Thou greet'st the traveller in the lane.
▪ II. morris, n.2 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmɒrɪs|
[Corruption of merels: see merel 2.]
= merel 2. Chiefly nine men's (peg) morris.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 98 The nine mens Morris is fild vp with mud. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Merils, a Play among Boys, otherwise call'd Fivepenny Morris. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 7 Peters had beaten him..at fox and geese; then at morris; then at checquers, or draughts. 1835Clare Rural Muse 119 Oft we may track his haunts..By nine-peg-morris nicked upon the green. 1865S. Evans Bro. Fabian's MS. 9 He found his abacus expressly scored For nine-men's morris on an indoor scale.
▪ III. morris, n.3 Nat. Hist.|ˈmɒrɪs|
[f. the name of William Morris of Holyhead.]
An elongated flat eel-like fish formerly named Leptocephalus morrisii, but now regarded as the aborted young of the conger-eel. Also Anglesea morris.
1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 125. 1781 ― Tours Wales II. 252 The Beaumaris Shark,..the Morris, and the trifurcated Hake..are new species taken in this sea. 1835Jenyns Brit. Vertebr. Anim. 480 Leptocephalus Morrisii, Gmel. (Angelsea Morris).
▪ IV. morris, morrice, v.|ˈmɒrɪs|
[f. morris n.1]
1. intr. To dance. Also slang (see quot. 1725).
1725New Cant. Dict., Morris, to hang dangling in the Air, to be executed. 1861M. Collins in Temple Bar I. 268 Where the unseen fairies gaily morriced.
2. slang. To move away rapidly; to decamp. Also with off. ? Obs.
1765Cowper Let. to Hill 8 Nov., Wks. 1837 XV. 6, I think the Welshman must morris. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. iii. ii, Zounds! here they are. Morrice! Prance! 1796M. Robinson Angelina II. 81 You'll be pleased to morrice off while you are in a whole skin. 1838Dickens O. Twist viii, Up with you on your pins. There! Now then! Morrice!
†b. To move at a rapid pace. Obs.
1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 333 They [horses] are not large, but they can all ‘morris’ a little.
3. trans. To dance (a particular measure).
a1845Hood Forge i. 4 However it's quite As wild a night As ever was known on that sinister height Since the Demon-Dance was morriced. |