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Mo   /moʊ/   Listen
noun
Mo  n.  (Chem.) Chemical symbol for the element molybdenum.



MO  n.  Abbreviation for modus operandi, manner of operating; often used to refer to the method an habitual criminal uses to perpetrate his crime.



adjective
Mo  adj., adv., n.  (Written also moe)  More; usually, more in number. (Obs.) "An hundred thousand mo." "Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it."



suffix
-mo  suff.  A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16°, 18°, etc.






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"Mo" Quotes from Famous Books



... be beginning there just as I go into exile!" said Mrs. Duncombe. "It seems odd that I should have to go from what I have only just learnt to prize. But you have taught mo a good deal—" ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the Missouri.} "St. Louis, Mo., February 17, 1868. } "Dear Brother:— . . . I have not yet got the order for the Atlantic division, but it is coming by mail, and when received I must act. I have asked the President to let me make my headquarters ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... sholy would," said his sister with a gleam of interest; "we ain't a gwine to miss him, wid six mo'! I'll sell ...
— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden

... "Gol darn the saucy cuss! It's mighty queer, but she isn't here; so . . . she must be on one of us. You'll pardon me if I make so free, but—there's just one thing to do: If you'll kindly go for a half a mo' I'll search me garments through." Then all alone on the shiny throne I stripped from head to heel; In vain, in vain; it was very plain that I hadn't got Lucille. So I garbed again, and I told the Prince, and he ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

... afflicted Italy at the time of the irruption of Odoacer, king of the Heruli, is eloquently described, in prose and verse, by a French poet, (Les Mois, tom. ii. p. 174, 205, edit. in 12 mo.) I am ignorant from whence he derives his information; but I am well assured that he relates some facts incompatible with ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon


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