Noun: morse
| Singular | morse |
| Plural | morses |
Sample Sentences
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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.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like morse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”). See: Latin Nouns '
morsus'.