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plural morses
A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. quotations examples
The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co.
(now rare) A walrus. quotations
The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]
1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 66
Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.
1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881